Niko Karvounis, Health Beat. October 6, 2008. The current bailout is costing us only a third of what we pay each year for chronic illnesses like cancer, diabetes and obesity.
Sarah Anderson, Sam Pizzigati, AlterNet. October 6, 2008. The bailout does precious little to limit the extravagant pay that gives top executives the incentive to behave outrageously.
Staff, Down With Tyranny! AlterNet: PEEK. October 4, 2008. Who would oppose extending unemployment benefits in the face of a one-month loss of 159,000 jobs?
David Sirota, AlterNet. October 4, 2008. We now face market forces uninhibited by democratic governance. The bailout is an aggressive attempt to trade democracy for autocracy.
Joe Bageant, CounterPunch. October 3, 2008. We somehow came to believe Wall Street's success was ours too, and that the bills we owed were never going to come due. Well, they are now.
George Soros, The Financial Times. October 2, 2008. Instead of just purchasing troubled assets the bulk of the funds ought to be used to recapitalise the banking system.
Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com AlterNet: PEEK. October 2, 2008. We cannot simply keep protesting without proposing exactly what it is we think Congress should do.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, Huffington Post. October 1, 2008. Forcing each American to fork over $2,200 at a time when median family income has declined by as much is no way to improve the economy.
Robert Scheer, Truthdig. October 1, 2008. Instead of applauding representatives who, for once, heeded the public, the pundits blasted those who dared get out of line.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. October 1, 2008. Experts discuss the politics of the bailout's defeat in the House, the fundamentals of the plan and where we might go from here.
Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com AlterNet: PEEK. September 30, 2008. This is rare and historic; few can remember a time when a bill supported by the president and the leadership of both parties went down in defeat.
