Where'd the Bank Bailout Billions Go?

[TheWhiteRose161718]

In Coralville, Iowa police shut down 4-year-old Abigail Krstinger's lemonade stand after it had been up for half an hour. Dustin Krustinger told reporters that his daughter was selling lemonade at 25 cents a cup during the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Race Across Iowa (or RAGBRAI), and couldn't have made more than five dollars. Police informed her that a permit would cost $400.

[awiseguy86]

President Andrew Jackson 1829-1837 "You are a den of vipers! I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning."

[thespinner1112]

@awiseguy86

Apathy is happy

cos it won without a fight

[nafaidni]

To be honest, it's really not that necessary to know where the money is going. The bank bailouts are just loans. As long as the banks return the loans with the interest that is due, I don't see why they can't spend what they got as they please. If they get a second chance and screw up again, let them die. They still paid back the people's taxes with interest.

[stevin47]

they used it to build 2012 emergency bunkers all over the u.s. for the rich and politicians

[doctorw2]

this is a too obvious question with an equaly obvious answer, the bank bail out billions went to big bonuses for bank employees and CEOs.

[StreetHypnosisOz]

"I don't buy a winter coat without a plan"

haha I actually believe that's true for her

[Hatebot123]

This is bullshit i thought in capitialism Its Sink or swim. all ive seen is sinking and then whining for help. Thought capitialism was about compitition free markets undersell your competitors. And blah blah blah . And then there is the theroy that it was planned out so the banks could get a bailout from the government

[2Touchstone]

In short, you have a ghastly mess!

[SexSteakSoda]

How are you going to tell the banks to fuck off when they own all your houses and cars? Dipshits. They OWN you, you HAVE to bail them out. Bitch. I mean literally, you're the banks BITCH.. They wouldn't need a fuckin bailout if you didnt default on your goddamn loan, deadbeat piece of shits.

[Allamericom]

Impeach the 3rd world terrorist Obama

End the Fed and the inside 911's will end with them

States are dependent on the Union and need to Separate and become independent and self supporting

soviet UNION

federal UNION

european UNION

What is the common denominator? Separate them and live

Wake up America your under siege and don't even know it

[meatwad8800]

its just money they can just print more lol sarcasm

[WilliamHCarney]

The banks are what makes the world go around. Not our personal monies. What really needs to happen are for Congress to pass Federal laws, that the only way to receive campaign contributions, are through private donations (NOT corporations) of any kind. Good luck with that happening.

[WilliamHCarney]

You all don't understand. The bailouts, unfortunately was necessary. What monies are going to move the economy? Not personal bank accounts. Doesn't work that way. Not to mention the millions that banks gives to politicians campaigns. How do you think they get elected? Obama not giving them a bailout, would have sent us to a great 1929 Depression. That was financially proven recently by the CBO, and economist.

[danielharmonizer]

So now we know that the $750 billion bailout was really $4.6 TRILLION, and the Federal Reserve kept it secret. Dang. We Americans are pretty stupid. Now we're about to give them more power, and less transparency.

[gemcutter187]

@danielharmonizer hooray vote Republican this fall to hook up the bankers and fat cats!

[danielharmonizer]

@gemcutter187 Huh? Did you fall asleep? Obama did the same thing. Are you calling him a Republican?

[gemcutter187]

@danielharmonizer You failed to ever wake up, the bailout Bush gave days before he left office with Henry Paulson are clearly worded 'cannot be reviewed by any court of law' SO suprise! suprise! Most of that money can never be tracked down, its gone man, almost a trillion dollars handed over! The difference is the money Obama borrowed out is mostly paid back, or is clearly being tracked. Go do some research instead of memorizing Fox News and Co.

[danielharmonizer]

@gemcutter187 Sorry man. It just isn't that simple in my world. I certainly don't agree with any of the bailouts...especially since I have an education in banking and understand a bit about economics. But I will certainly say this. Maybe ppl have listened to the misinformation a bit too much...NEWSFLASH. The Constitution gave us a great fail-safe device here...called Congress. This "single bullet" might be fired at them, since without them, the President's recommendations are meaningless!

[gemcutter187]

@danielharmonizer watch?v=nAGzLfmV4Ks&feature=ch­annel and theres a good Democrat to listen to

[shannonnunn]

our whole government has enslaved us to the bankers. jefferson warned against this, "centralized banks are more threatening than any standing army" and jackson fought those bastards and cut them down but americans who are uneducated because of government run schooling and an influx of free riding foreigners has bloated americas borders with ignorant tools that cant think forthemselves. americans were once great people fighting against tyranny and now we have become complacent sheep afraid2stand

[NewAgeOrder]

Total incompetence pays guys

[SmokePropaganda]

remember those "In communist russia" jokes

well how about this one

In capitalist America The Banks Rob You.

[hh8820]

The bank bailout constitutes the theft of hundreds of billions of American taxpayer dollars by Jewish banking interests, and their conspirators. The hard working American will never be able to pay this debt, making him a slave to the Zionist government of this country and their masters in Isreal. Wake up and fight for your people and your children! Join the American Nazi Party today!

[lassek85]

Copy paste the below comment if you see the ironic in todays governing system based on greed.

[lassek85]

By the bailouts they diapprove of a free market, it's always fun to see liberal ppl defending short term progress on "free*d" markets while the law of the fittest should deem when a market is ready to be replaced (end result of it - monopoly, oligopoly). The things that seperate the weak from the strong is now taken out of the calculation, on the cost of mid - lower class who bails the greedy out. At the same time as liberal speak about not being forced to support others on socialised healthcre.

[MILISA99]

Hope! Change you can believe in! "Let me make this perfectly clear, I want to help the middle class. But first I must give billions of taxpayers money to banks and GM. I have economic advisers who know about this stuff so don't question me. I have Barney Fife....I mean Barney Frank to oversee this. I will fix the economy, just keep sending me your money so I can give it away. You have to spend money to make money, right Joe?" "Right Barrack. Where is Sarah Palin? Let's make fun of her".

[mimikats48]

This is what happens when you have a Democratic Congress, a Democratic Senate & a Democratic President. We have change alright! Change for the worse. The US is going to hell in a hand basket.

[pberrios0223]

bunch of fucking crrooks, stealing millions while we struggle to pay basic bills, mothervuckers, they should be burned alive.

[BeantownJim]

CHANGE!!!!! hahahahahahaha You suckers put this barry sotoero in office hahahaha

[CyberSmokeProduction]

Obamas "Change"

Same as it ever was......

[cicorp]

What would it be like if those who worked hardest for others made the most money. This what Nature is trying to achieve, through Natural Selection. Let the big banks of the "Federal Reserve Sytem" fail, like the dinosaurs, so smaller, hard working banks can buy their resources and thrive. The US Govt should not bail out the Federal Reserve which is a private bank cartel that has somehow gotten the right to make money, not a government agency.

[paulsviplist]

I think it is time for me to get into the banking business.Because people in this world are so stupid that they will just give all their money to the banks.

[HurricaneHeidi]

Read "The Creature from Jekyll Island" by Griffin, and "Web of Debt" by Brown, and then read "Default !!! Escaping the Debt Trap and Avoiding Bankruptcy" by Guedel, in which 2 people defaulted on over 94K of unsecured credit card debt and avoided bankruptcy and judgment and defeated a major bank's collection attorney. It can be done. Banks are stealing from us all... get out of their crooked banking system -- move your money to Credit Unions ... create and join more honest Credit Unions.

[RantVideos]

Fjuck off Swaub and the stock market. Obalish the stock market, they steal your money. Only stupid people that dfon't learn from the past invest in the stock market , 01 ks and IRA's. The princiable in IRA's should be safe from the market thieves.

[RantVideos]

These so called angry outraged news bits leave out one big thing. The Anwers! It's like they should all end there news stories fwith A Walter Cronkrite tage line " Well that's the way it is folks" and add the tag line of what the real answer is..." and theres not a damn thinfg you can do about it!" If it is wrong for all the financial terrorism Corporate has commited where are all the arrests? It must not be wrong if no body gets arrested. All Corporations are enemy combatants .

[Shmiggle2000]

I say we should tell the banks to fuck off, and bailout the climate instead!

[Silberdachs]

World financial banking crisis is due to massive and systematic fraud. The truth is revealed by a former Regulator (now a university professor). If you really want to know who is responsible for the current financial mess, check this out:

watch?v=CQ4JXW_ErXQ

This deserves to go viral.

[number1suprafan]

Its funny how these banks are getting billions to help give more loans but yet they will only give 3 grand for school. Didnt help much

[attactoftheretard]

why is everyone so confused, they fuckin stole it and laughed like a scooby do villan the whole way

[intellispeak]

Fact: during the 07' and 08' banks, insurance cos. and investment banks spent over 200 million on lobbying. Fact:  Congress changed tax law IRC sec. 382 to allow banks to use tax losses from failing banks by merging. This generated tax credits of $140 billion in addition to the bailout money. Fact: the DEMOCRATS were in control of Congress and now the Senate. Stop drinking the liberal koolaid. The real culprits are the Democrats running the show. The banks and the labor unions own them.

[ringoramjet]

They look at us as nothing more than plantation workers,College ed incl.They should be tried and executed,not bailed out.Or worse yet,have these animals do farm work or digging ditches the rest of their lives.Won't happen.Americans have been turned into corporate" houseboys"and lapdogs.They know who their owners are

[concerned00citizen]

We keep electing the Reps/Dems expecting different results. I'm being to think we are too stupid to survive.

[wiscokiddd]

Search "The Land of Bonuses and Bailouts" or check my channnel to see what these excuses of human, greedy bad spawn bankers are acting like.

[luathintinneach]

bring out the guilotine

[oecrjr]

i don't know how u fuckers got some much power to get n do what the fuck u greedy shits wanna do w/ OUR money, the hell w/ yo BANKS good for nothing but to fuck up people,now yo asses are running scared bacause ya'll know WE wont take shit from u shits ANYMORE, we already cought on to yo game which is to spread all that money among ya'll good for nothing shitty thiefs, so ya'll better work with that little bit of money u have left because hopefully Obama will not bail u shits out anymore...

[Gewanhogan]

Allright lets make this simple for you.The wall street and Bank bailout passed with very little opposition except for the republicans objections to congressional oversight.The Republicans have no trouble with the redistribution of wealth up.But when it come to the edistribution of OUR wealth OUR tax money health care,education ect.You would think marxist Leninist's were at the gate of our democracy.They have no problem with handing OUR money over to thier friends.Please people wtf up.

[ponic420h]

THEY DON'T WORK FOR US ANYMORE

[concerned00citizen]

Reps and Dems haven't worked for the little people for decades and decades but we keep re-electing them. We get what we elect.

[alicia99999]

fuckers

[archiebunkerfan]

Army Veteran awaits and awaits for his money, Banks get it in no time, what the Fuck !!!

[paleoman1999]

GD! This is the same fucking government that if you don't pay your chicken shit $800 property tax they crawl up your ass instantly and take it.... hypocritical bastards. Is no one in charge , to oversee where the money goes, set RULES on what it can and can't be used for? FUCK!

[phanpp]

$2310 each

[paleoman1999]

Yup your right, got my decimal in the wrong place :(

[singledad1234]

well if they bailed out the banks

why are the banks BANKRUPT??????????????????????­???????????

welcome to the new world order

and  the IMPLODING COUNTRY AND DOLLAR

ITS OVER FOR AMERICA

[LAGERL0UT]

if i run out of money the bank gets my house.if the bank runs out of money,they get bailed out with my tax moneys,they then keep this money and i lose my job and then they get my house anyway.dunno about you but i get the distinct feeling were been taken for a bunch of right mongloids.

[sickwiththetruth]

After giving billions in bail out money, Citi Bank was just busted trying to spend millions on a personal jet for their CEO's. Can you believe this! We homeowners are struggling and all we hear are promises that Obama is going to help us with the stimulus package and yet we are still losing homes left and right. We are in a recession, but we are headed for a depression.

[mreisma]

we should have a bunch of mercenaries taking out the evil corporate elite :)

[emceelynx]

or better yet, revolutionaries. as the song says, "we the people fight for freedom / while the cops just fight for pay / and as long as truth is in our hearts / we're sure to win one day."

[zzzbbb123456]

This will ruin america, greed that is. Im not american but this makes me sad. I know how this will end, the Weimar republic did the same thing. Printing and printing money that is and it didn´t end well at all.

[mannyfeseha]

help

[enmaxlineman]

good point "Where is it coming from"?

Congress probaly lied about the 700 billion and never did give any , that is why there is no trace of where the money has been spent.

Just another lie from US goverment to let China and Japan think there money is safe in the US dollar----the colapes of the dollar will happen in 2009

[faanunu]

It probably went to Congresses pay raise... LOL.

[drew20211]

Bernie Madoff and his Jewish friends have our $700 billion. Unfortunately, those people have ruined our banks and economy.

I remember when bankers were respectable and honest. We need more people loyal to America on Wall Street.

[kaiser0soze]

Under the Federal Reserve Act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figure a mathematical equation.

- Charles Lindenberg

[NoBailout4Banksters]

We believe we know where the funds went and why the secrecy. If you have an opened mind contact us and we will tell you what we believe.

[aGcg2H]

Think I'll stop paying on my credit cards....I deserve a bailout.

[696styx]

The fleecing of America

Thanks Bush/Cheney

[SNUFFsurgeryNEWS]

Dems created it!!!

[faanunu]

A pox on both their houses... dems and reps... REPUBLICRATS

[AscensionSeries]

You know it's fake.. they say it was bad practices of the one bank.. so now that they got the money and spent it foolishly.. the other banks are like ah! we should get a piece too! and yes we screwed up so we deserve our cut! I would say boycott the banks that ask & take the money. Since banking is considered an essential service at this time, the gov should by them and make it a free service or charging the tax in order to pay for the employees.

so now

[FinsterFlummoxing]

The American Congress is such a dog and pony show. They have no real idea of what goes on in the finance industry, (let alone the auto industry). They bring in these CEO's who are asking for corporate welfare, berate them in front of the cameras for being terrible at their jobs, and condemn them for mishandling financial management. Then, congress turns around and mishandles managing the situation by giving away the money they ask for.

Congress sucks at their job and you can't fire them.

[coolwise1]

"Congress sucks at their job and you can't fire them."

Ain't that truth. One of the best comments I have heard all year.

The citizens of the USA are getting fleece and lied to by our "elected" officials and unofficials. The majority of the citizens don't know or don't care. The bitch and moan and they take up their tailpipe. Enough bending over, spreading your ass checks and taking up the rear from our so-called "elected" official and fight back.

[attactoftheretard]

this has ot be the biggest heist ever

[opAir01]

bush has done it again ....

[FinsterFlummoxing]

As much as I hate Bush, this is the fault of the congress.

When you or I get a loan from a lender, their are strict stipulations and conditions.

To not account for the money, is just ridiculous.

Each company who requested money should have been forced to take a CPA appointed by the government to track each and every penny.

I know a few CPA's that are looking for work.

[killatop]

I agree, this isn't a Bush thing, and don't think it will suddenly stop when Obama takes over in a few days...I would just suspect it to get worse and worse no matter who is President...unless you had a fiscally conservative president

[FFFFbody]

@FinsterFlummoxing What about Obama? TARP was used for financial institutions. Obama abused it by bailing out his union voters (UAW) at GM and Chrysler.

[rLOVEutionFor2012]

@FinsterFlummoxing Well, when you have lawmakers and Congressman who all dream of making a million dollar salary from Bank of America, they're not to keen on what you and I think, but what the banking execs. want.

[voyeurdug]

The TARP hasn't all been disbursed. What's more a mystery is where it's coming FROM. Further, it won't be reportable until late February or early March at the earliest. So... this is a ~BIT~ previous.

Good job.

[finally0726]

Oh, you know Bush is going to take care of his friends. (bank) They always LQQK out for each other.