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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Thank's for posting that Marie.  Those were strong and true words, 'never 
would have been in the NYT today.  Goldman, et al too important to the city & 
paper.  The only thing that confused is that part about the amount for OBL.  
I think we have offered 100,000.000.00 for info leading to capture/dead or 
alive.  Otherwise, great piece.  'have to start checking TNR again ...bobford


--- On Tue, 9/30/08, Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Is it serious, or is it not?
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 8:51 PM
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Gene GeRue
> <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:
> >
> > Or is this not an emergency?
> 
> Who really knows? Pick your economist. I expect that if all
> credit
> really did disappear that more people than just those who
> would
> normally have access to credit to buy cares or a house or
> whatever
> would be affected. I'm not sure I want to see what
> would happen if
> everyone started to pull their money out of banks.
> 
> David Cay Johnston is an economic writer who recently
> retired from the
> NYT, but he hasn't been a cheerleader for Wall Street.
> Here's his
> comments from the New Republic:
> http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/09/29/celebrating-the-bailout-bill-s-failure-and-looking-ahead.aspx.
> 
> It's a pity that this happened such a short time before
> the election.
> Congress panics easily enough, and now -- well, the panic
> ain't
> pretty.
> 
> Marie
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