Amen!

(from a former AIG employee)

Goldman not only got bail out money, they moved right into the White house. Look at the number of ex-Goldman employees who are part of the cadre of advisors to Obama and you will see that they not only took money from the taxpayers but they are up close and personal to the president! Sort of like the fox guarding the hen house!

Well, as I was always told, an honest politician is one that when he's bought, he stays bought... need I say more????

Wow, Ann, AMAZING column today (Obama's Owned, You Can Bank On It). Cogent. Succinct. Persuasive. Stirring. Great job! Keep up the good work, we love what you do.

And we want to replace Democrats with Republicans?!

Are we insane? we keep doing the same things over and over expecting different results. We need to look outside the two "parties" to see if we can't do better. Oh, by the way they ,the Dems and the Repub have partied at our expence too long THROW THE BUMBS OUT.

Ann, you are RIGHT ON with everything you say in your column today (Obama's Owned, You Can Bank On It). Thanks and keep up the good work!!!!!!

Whover first said "Follow the money" knew the key fit for all genrations

The only way thia thurgeery is stopped will be by the "we the people" raise up fire all the bums on eithe side of the aile. We nned some one with intestinal fortitude od a Sarah Palin or the equivilent. If some one with the guts to take on thier own partyand heads roll. The opposing pary will run like ratsd in wharf fire. WHERE ARE THOSE PERSON WITH THE IN TESTINAL FORTITUDE TO DO WHAT NEED TO BE DONE, WE HAVE LOST OUR INTEGRITY AS A NATION LET ALONE THE INDIVIDULS!

I know of no better guest columnist than Ann Coulter -if Br Alexander is not available! She is 101% American Patriot and a very wise woman! She has a "tongue" sharp enough to slice cheese, and to destroy the Socialist silliness of every Democrat!

Amen!

Right on target. So, sick and tired of the taxpayer bailing out these guys.

Concur that they should be held accountable. I have several dear friends who owned smaller banking companies that weren't bailed out and now they are black balled by the regulators from working in the industry. Some of them have been personally devistated. Need to have consistency at all levels. No wonder we dont trust Dept of Treasury.

Great Ann! If this was April 1st, I'd think that you merely printed a few pages of Atlas Shrugged...

Reality sure can be spooky.

Intellectual idiots. It appears as though once a promising person gets elected to office he/she has this required orientation session that places a plunger on one side of the head and a plug on the other side and then they plunge out any and all common sense along with any remaining brain cells. I wonder when our newly elected Senator from Massachusetts is scheduled for his appointment. God help us all.

I recommend a call to Jim Croce's friend, Willy (Slim) McCoy. Big Jim, who cheated Willy out of money, was "cut in a hundred places and shot in a couple mo'".

Ann Coulter, Please run for President of the USA!! You have my vote, and always will. Thanks for getting the truth out to the starved masses. We are starved for the truth, the facts and for hope at this point. You are brilliant! God Bless you and yours.

You have got to love Ann Coulter. Beautiful, Pithy, satirical and so on target a marine scout/sniper would be proud.

The article states that "Employees from Goldman Sachs gave more money to the Obama campaign than any other organization except the University of California..." Where can I get the detail on the University of California contributions?

Thanks, Ann. To my knowledge your are the first US Citizen, (Politician, Banker and Investment Advisors included) who has had the guts to tell the truth concerning these Self Absorbed Money Grabbing THIEVES.

Ann has a way of cutting to the chase that is both honest and refreshing! I read your columns all the time and thoroughly enjoy them!

Thanks for telling it like it is!

While I love your sentiments Ann, you still hold too close to Republicans. I say Burn down both the houses of Cards. Republicans are looking to scoop up loose tea bags while the Democrats are looking to split the difference. Vote them all out Ann. We have no friends in Congress, El Casa blanca or the Supremes.

We need to go back to the DOI. We can do better.

BTW enjoy your columns and keep up the good work.

This goes deeper than just the bailouts, although they wrong on the basis of one simple principle: You pays your money and you takes your chances. It's called gambling. Wouldn't it be nice if you could go to Vegas, and City Hall would repay you every cent you lost at the craps table? That's more or less what happened here. But it goes deeper: it goes all the way back to the Liberal policy of letting banks sell bad debt. It let banks make tons of bad loans, because they knew they could sell them off if need be, at full value. Which is exactly what they did, which is exactly what led us to these dire economic straits. I'll be honest, I would never have bought a house had it not been for a subprime ARM. And, I lost my house, because when my finacial situation changed (our income dropped by over $1000 per month), I was unable to secure new financing, because now the banks were tightening down on bad loans. Where's MY bailout? Hint: I don't want one.

You are right on BABBY! Ann you should read this on Hannity.

Andy jackson had short shrift made of Nicholas Biddle and Clay when they tried to hijack the republic with the first National Bank. Jackson cared not one wit for the mainstream; he grew tired of the depravations of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek as well as the Cherokee, so had them forcibly removed to Oklahoma. He then balanced the budget by selling off their lands as one precept.A little seizure program would go a long way to settling the chop on Wall Street

We need another president who takes the reins of power and does good with it for the benefit of the republic, not special interests and whining minorities like gay bicycle riders on meth or whatever is vogue this week amongst the white liberal trash that want to spend our money so they can feel good. ENOUGH!! George Soros is a hard core communist, barely cloaked in his financial empire who believes he has the right to change America. He is but one of the Pretender's handlers, and should be brought to justice. Take that bloated bureuacracy the Department of Justice and make them earn their living by doing whats right for middle America, instead of oppressing whomever exercises their CONSTITUTIONAL rights by speaking out against business as usual in that polluted pissoire cleverly disguised as our capitol.

November will be the wake up call. The Republicans and the Democrats have both forgotten, who pays the bulk of the taxes, who fights the wars, who espouses a Christian, ethical America and who has finally had enough of people hyphenating their nationality, overunning our social system with illegal immigrants, having ungrateful, hostile adherents of a personality cult forced on them in the thousands under the guise of freedom of religion.If you get elected it will be because you have taken a sacred oath to protect the constitution and MEAN it this time. Nothing less than indictments for the remainder.

A new ground swell is out there bent on wresting control from the bloated bureaucrats, and that band of hookers calling themselves a Congress.

Personally I think it is breathlessly exciting that Washington is scared shatless of a diminutive petite with the intellect of Disraeli.

en garde'

a citizen

Yes, the Democrats threw, and continues to throw billions to Wall Street. But please do recall, the bail-outs began with George Bush, Republican, and Henry Coulson, his Republican Secretary of State. I don't think the Republicans can come before the people presenting themselves as responsible stewards of our economy.Nor can tghe Democrats. Where does that leave us?

Ann, thanks, I have shared it again on facbook. Hope you won't mind.

In a sane world, these crooks would be on trial and on their way to prison. In a sane world, our national media would be all over this story as the scandal of the century, and scores of Congressmen from both parties would be scrambling to turn state's evidence in order to grab a lighter sentence.

In 2008, Barney Frank (House Banking Committee) testified that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were "perfectly fine, absolutely nothing wrong with them and anyway if something did happen then the government could just bail them out, right?"

In 2009, Obama spent enormous amounts of time blaming the recession on the "failures and greed of Capitalism."

In 2010, Obama explained away the latest multi-million dollar bonuses for the executives at these failed companies as perfectly reasonable, citing them as evidence that "the free markets are working." Suddenly, Obama is a free-markets guy!

This is a serial con-job, a massive fraud upon America that should ever single American running into the streets waving a pitchfork and demanding the heads of the Congressmen who signed off on this massive theft.

As for Mr William Baker, where does that leave us? Please don't be confused by misapplied labels. Very little about George W Bush could be described as Conservative. Most of today's Republicans are RINOs -- Republican in Name Only. They wouldn't know a free market if it fell on their heads. Where does that leave us? Simple. Stop electing people who pay lip service to free markets but then vote for these obscene bailouts and government takeovers of private industries. Pay attention and vote genuine Conservatives into office, people who support the Constitution AS WRITTEN, not as some living document offering suggestions. Vote in people who adhere to free market principles.

Socialism = EPIC FAIL.

Most American Taxpayers are asleep at the wheel with their two front tires hanging over a cliff. The good news is that the Obama Government is not the only tow truck in town. An educated public can right the wrongs so evident in Washington. Warning - know who to vote for in November.

So, Ann, are you trying to tell us that Matt Taibbi’s Rolling Stone article in June of ’09 - "The Great American Bubble Machine" - was accurate?

Bout time someone with Ann’s notoriety said this OUT LOUD, thank you Ann.

What is not mentioned in this article is that AIG can still sell Credit Default Swaps with ZERO capital reserves to back such “crap” because we the people are still the guarantor AND that Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch (good riddance Lehman/Bear Stearns) can still sell mortgage backed securities to anyone stupid enough (Uncle Sam/You and Me) to buy them.

Wait till the Fed finally raises the discount rate, round two will start. Brace for impact, learn to speak Chinese.

Coulter; I continue to relish you most succinct, and accurate, proclamatins! The prescribed penalties, though not possible, are certainly appropriate! Republicans? Where? How about Term Limits? And a new Independent (Constitution) Party?

Another big reason AIG was bailed out is that they are the company who handles health insurance for congressional members. Congress could not allow them to fail and leave them without their self elected insurers.

Loved the article, and it is another example of how extreme to the right & left both parties have gone. Where have the all the constitutional conservatives gone? The bail-outs have got to stop, and I'm afraid that it will be the American taxpayer still standing, without a chair, when the music stops.

Can someone tell me why all of these freedom, capitalist haters don't just move to the full spectrum of Socialist choices in which to live?

The vehemence of our sacred Constitution and country is palpable in the current White House. They are freedom haters who have the freedom to move to a government that they would no longer have to fight and where they would no longer feel like "outsiders". Hundreds would help them pack and pay their fare to leave with an extra bonus to leave today! And if they don't feel well after the long flight they could line up for a little Socialized health care to make them all feel right at home!

I myself believe there is little, if any, difference between any party the way the system is set up now. They are all OWNED by someone. They all need to be replaced. I think we need to start by adding a third party. If it is called a Tea Party then that is okay.

An individual brought up a really simple idea. Tea Party supporters should put a number 3 on the bumper of their car ( or anywhere else they want to). This will at least start a show of support for change. How can they hijack this sign of support? Maybe if we can show some unity by this we stand a chance. This needs to just be a simple number and not a nascar earnhardt decal.

THank you and those like you who have the means and the insight and the outsight to accomplish those things which we are not enabled.

Our way will endure only thru the efforts of you and yours.

Cordially,

W Mcintyre

Ann, thank you so much for this and all else you have written and said. I have learned so much in the past few years as I have chosen to read and listen and get educated about this great country of ours. Every time someone gets up and insinuates that I and other conservative patriots are too stupid to understand ("I didn't explain myself well enough" - really, Mr. President?!?!?) it makes me redouble my efforts. The Patriot Post is my favorite read! Thank you, Mark and all staffers!

I agree whole heartedly with Ann excepting that she is a little light on the punishment. America should be allowed to rape them for a little while and then we could shoot and hang them a couple of times.

I think facts and getting to the point.We should do business with companies that espouse the foundation of our country.I think one service not being covered well is where exactly monies flow and to whom.like this article about contributors to OBama or his ilk.please I saw where chase supported Obama and my credit card with them will slowly go into disuse.please help keep us aware of these situations on into the future.There should be money and businesses we can support.Not every corp or businessman trying to make a buck is evil,nor is making a better mouse trap or giving a superior service wrong.

The reason the federal government can get by with this kind of Chicanery is because over many years starting way back in the 1920's and 1930's up to the present day, the federal governmemt with the exception of Ronald Reagan, has mastered the practice of constitutional piracy against the American people. The worse part about it all, is that the American people have not yet realized it because they have been brain washed into believing that the fed is the authority in this country not realizing that they (the people) are. The government now truly believes it themselves. The raw truth of it is that the American people created the government and the Constitution and gave limited authority (9th and 10th Constitutional Amendments) to the government to be the people"s servant, but the governmemt stole the rest of it illegally and unconstitutionally. The American people can take it back at any time they choose to. The Constitution and the fed government belong to (is the property of) the American People. By the way, as a side bar, America is not and never has been a democracy. It was and is a Constitutional Republic. A democracy and a Constitutional Republic are light years apart in their organizational structure. Briefly, a Constitutional Republic is all about the "Individual". A democracy is all about the "majority" which can be easily manipulated and controlled as our president and congress do on a daily basis. Thanks for the opportunity to preach America a little. God Bless.

Ann, thank you so much for this and all else you have written and said. I have learned so much in the past few years as I have chosen to read and listen and get educated about this great country of ours. Every time someone gets up and insinuates that I and other conservative patriots are too stupid to understand ("I didn't explain myself well enough" - really, Mr. President?!?!?) it makes me redouble my efforts. The Patriot Post is my favorite read! Thank you, Mark and all staffers!

Love Ann's writings as always. However, in this one, she went over the edge on her "final solution". Doesn't she realize that the taxpayers are broke? Who is going to fund the additional costs involved in multiple shootings of the same crooks? One well-placed shot seems sufficient; no need to resurrect the dead for more shots.

Here is a novel idea: Big Government get out of the way and let Free Market Capitalism sink or swim on there own merits and hard work, and stop relying on 'bail-outs' There is no company too big to fail. In addition, if companies are net-worked overseas then the overseas partners need to share in the responsibility.

Ann, nobody tells a story like you! As always, you are right on the money.

Unfortunately, the Republicans benefit from the same "benefactors." To repeat the phrase, "This isn't legislation, this is corruption" runs on both sides of the aisle. Raiding the public treasury for the benefit of any industry is unconstitutional regardless of who does it. The fact that the TARP fiasco was initiated by the Bush administration and carried on under Obama only shows how deeply the corruption is entrenched. A credible challenge from an independent, Constitution-oriented movement is urgently needed before our nation is bankrupt, our currency debased, our free-enterprise system socialized, our liberty stripped from us, and our children placed in an eternal subordinate debtor position to foreign powers.

Could I add a few names to your list of those needing to be tortured, shot, miraculously brought back to life, tortured some more and shot a few more times??

Kudos/Dittos to Ann Coulter. We couldn't agree with here more. Please tell us where we sign up to participate as part of the firing squad?

as to Ann Coulter's comment, "...regular Americans being forced to foot the bill for the gambling habits of left-wing multimillionaires...", if I am not mistaken and recall correctly, the bailout of AIG was done in the summer/fall of 2008, started before Obama was elected, started by the Bush administration. So while I am disgusted by the bailout and the relentless abuse of US taxpayers, I don't think the "left-wing millionaires" are the only millionaires wallowing in the mud on this one. Call it correctly - for conservatives to sidestep the truth only makes us look like we are no better than the pathological left whom we seek to expose.

While I love Ms. Coulter (I'd take her out...) and her writings, all this has been said before--there's not much new here. The sooner Republicans congregate in a more Conservative corner, the better off we'll be. Now that the Senate hammerlock (60 votes) has been broken, there's hope for us if we can get on the same (right) page.

I don't think anyone is praising the Bush administration for starting the bailouts. But the fact remains, had it not been for the bailout guarantees given to the likes of Goldman/Sachs, AIG, Fannie Mae, and Freddy Mac by the Clinton administration, they would not have played so fast and loose with other people's money. Had they been told from the get-go, "...if you or any of your team is captured, the secretary will disavow all knowledge", they would have known it was their necks on the line. Feeding them more taxpayer bailout money is tantamount to giving Roman Polanski a daycare license.

It seems you really hit a nerve with this column Ann.

So who is the biggest whore here? The federal government or Wall Street? I know what kind of change I want. Simply put, a divorce between big business and the American taxpayer's tax dollars disguised as the Federal government. I am truly ashamed of the pigs who are raping and pillaging our country.

Whe hasn't the gov. bailed out the people that Bernie Maddoff screwed. I see some similarities in this deal. Why is one guy a thief and Corporations are not. In fact they are, because they got bonuses for screwing the public. Thank You Larry

From the start of this "sea of troubles" I have listened but have never gotten a handle on it's depth and had an understanding of "who's on first"! Thanks for the breakdown. The layers of finance and bad politics are so deeply intertwined it's no wonder citizens don't get it and therefore are stuck with the bill. So tell me again why people vote Democrat?

Excellent article.

If these debts are allowed to stand, two if not three generations of Americans will be effectively sold into slavery.

Paul Stewart: You are correct, Matt Taibbi deserves credit for his article in Rolling Stones in June 09 for unmasking the Goldman Sachs fraud that was perpetrated on the American people. I would never read the Rolling Stones but a very wise and honest reporter who cares about our country told me about it. I am glad Ann Coulter is making this information available to the general public through her notoreity. We have been duped and our children and grandchildren must now pay the bill in perpetuity.

The comment about the "lay about" single mother is beyond my comprehension. I am cancelling my subscription because of it. It's unbelievable that anyone can imagine that a woman raising children alone has any time to "lay about". We are taking on the unpaid responsibility that these children's father's are shirking. Sure the fathers work, but only if they are paid. The mother's have to do the unpaid work, and then we get to be referred to as 'lay abouts'. Shame on you. You can keep your stupid patriot post. I bet the lay about'' is yourself. Curses upon thee and and anyone else who refers to any mother in such derogatory terms.

Join the movement. Go to the hardware store and buy a number 3 for the bumper of your car. Show politicions that we feel the American people have become the third (3) party in America. This simple idea cannot be hijacked by either existing party or power. Show them we have had enough of the same old stuff from Government. This clearly will show signs of unity. If we cannot even make this simple show of support then we just as well bow down to the masters. This MUST happen to show we can unite.

I have stood up before only to be slapped down.

When an IRS Agent is murdered and they do nothing we are in a heap of trouble.

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God bless Ann Coulter and may God bless America! It's people like Ann who help open our eyes to the truth. Let's take back our country from left-wing control before it's too late. Support, vote for and elect true conservatives but keep a close eye on them once they are in office. I can't wait for Nov.

Excellent analysis of how corrupt our government has become. Republicans need to be careful who they support. Voters are much better informed and more aware than they used to be about what is happening in Washington. I think this will felt at the ballot box by both Democrats and Republicans in November. The following link describes more of the same kind of financial gain for wall street. http://www.thinkbigworksmall.com/mypage/player/tbws/23088/1094776

Way to go Ann!! Let's not limit the targets to Wall Street Felons, many of the republicans will make great targets.

Good thoughts, but just a thought.

Could this be true that the government forced the asset to be created, insured the asset through AIG-GS. Which left us, the people(the ones that pay tax) holding the insurance bill, which got called, that dysfunctional government created in the first place on the backs of the taxpayer to guarantee.

Free market works if we can release the market from government interference.

I take issue with your comment that people need to be tortured and then shot resurrected and shot again. There is no need to be violent, although; I can identify with the feeling. A patient man with a plan and purpose will win the day. You cannot in good taste request prayer for our troops and then wish someone dead. Calvin had Servetus killed because he didn't agree with his ideas. Thus Calvin is a murderer. This is not good theology, common sense or even erudite. Continue to make your voice known as a martinet and you will be respected. Thank you for inviting my comment. Chaplain US Army Godspeed

Love Ann's writings as always. However, in this one, she went over the edge on her "final solution". Doesn't she realize that the taxpayers are broke? Who is going to fund the additional costs involved in multiple shootings of the same crooks? One well-placed shot seems sufficient; no need to resurrect the dead for more shots.

There was another "fishy" deal some years ago.

The US government made a 25 million (?) loan to Mexico to pay up a Mwxican loan that was going to 'default'. I never could find who held the loan. It was never mentioned in our newspaper,

Times Union of Albany, NY. Interesting?

How can "we the people" force the private bank "The Federal Reserve" to refund the money they have stolen from us since 1913?

Just imagine where we would be if our soldiers were doing the kind of job our politicians are doing.

We would still be a colony of Britain, or could be speaking Japanese, Germany or even Spanish.

I volunteer for the firing squad.

I will supply my gun and ammo.

love the way you put things so succinctly and straight forward. jj

"...bail them out IF their house of cards collapsed." My only correction--it should read WHEN, not if. Greed and foolishness always bites back.

Our country can not survive 3 more years of obama.

Obama is a post turtle. The farmer seeing a turtle sitting on a post stopped to investigate. He found there was no way the turtle got there by itself, now that it was there it did not know what to do and the only question was.....Who put him there?

Just a thought! In my opinion, it is possible that the Democratic National power brokers conceived, planned and executed the housing market to collapse causing the financial market trauma to occur at a time when the Republican party could be blamed and potentially hurt the most? Were Senators Dobb and Frank and others that conniving? (If so, it seems now that their scheme is backfiring.......did the Democrats really believe everyone should own a home and subtly pressure the financial markets to loan money that could not be repaid, and; then to assure Wall Street the protection of a bailout?)

Misery and Suffering (poverty) is directly proportional to the funds set aside for its relief. Entitlements are causing people to become parasitic and will destroy the host! Let's not let our congressmen continue buying goodwill. The greatest charity is to give a person a good job and yes work is honorable.

Shall we replace Democrat Socialism with Republican

Fascism. Maybe its' time to eliminate the usual Left-Right "Dead Fall" with something less corrupted.

Just another example of the corporatism (sp?) aka Fascism that is rampant in DC--and has been for years. It doesn't matter who is in office, the cause is simply too much money (ours) and too much power over the economy and our lives.

Look at the facts:

Fannie, Freddie, FHA, and the CRA caused this problem. Don't blame it on wall street. The SEC monopoly of the only authorized risk evaluation entities (Fitch, Moody's and Standard and Poor's) insured that business would not be able to correctly evaluate the risks created. In 2004, the SEC also authorized only 5 banks (Bear, Lehman, Merrill, Morgan and Goldman) to leverage up to 30 and 40 to 1. The ability to leverage up to that level is not a problem, but by authorizing it, the government gave an implicit guarantee for the losses--with our money.

Put it together: forced writing of subprime mortgages for risky buyers, massive additional risk guaranteed, credit agencies with no competition due to a government monopoly, and a government guaranteed, subsidized buyers (Fannie, Freddie, et al.) to relieve the banks of any real risk if they don't hold the risky mortgages that the government nearly forced them to make.

Bottom line: whoever is in office will be corrupted because we have given/they have taken too much power. The cannot sell it, or be corrupted, if we take back the power and the money. Yes, big business did their best to exploit the 'system' as established by the government. Yes, they should have had to suffer the losses. We failed twice over, once by allowing the government to set up such a system to begin with, and again by letting the criminals who caused it bail out their accomplices in big business.

If anyone doubt's the facts above, let me know, I have all the sources.

Great work Ann. Keep up the good work. We need you to bring what out what the other media will not disscuss.

Not sure why it is so important to some on this board to try and blame the bailouts entirely on Bush. The bailout bill was written by a congress controlled by the democrats.

Excellent! Aftr the 1987 bailout of the hedge fund that first relied on teh same basic set of flawed genius math formula that was supposed to remove all risk, theyscould safely bet they would be bailed out.

This, under Bush and Obama but both Democrat congresses that should have voted no, was supposed to save the economy, etc. Whether taking on trillions of government debt to China saved or will ultimately crater the U.S. economy and burden your grandchildren anyway. Contrary to every principle, they also allowed, and financed,obscene bonuses for the alleged geniuses that presided over this trin wreck. Unlike AIG, Goldman Sachs, Citi, etc., it will take ten years to a generation for employment opportunities and the real economy to recover, contrary to Obama's promises. Would we have been any worse off to have let thesegambling houses face the consequences of their own bad bets?

Keep on Giving them hell, Ann!

Not that it HAS to be, but the dems have made the issues SO complex that my feeling is that the average Obama voter, indeed the average voter, cannot understand what is really being done to him/her by the current administration. It is hard to maintain heart in this battle when the average voter cannot be honestly informed. What to do?

Ann, I loved your books, and believe me you keep it up for all of us oldies.