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`Repeal the Bailout`

Welcome to Repeal the Bailout, an online resource for intellectual activism on the US Government's dangerous and immoral "financial bailout" policies. Inspired by outrage at Congressional passage of the 850 billion dollar Bush/Paulson "financial bailout bill" on October 3, 2008, Repeal the Bailout uncompromisingly opposes such legislation, and advocates the repeal of any that may still be in effect.

`Current News`

10/19/2010: Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

“It’s pretty clear the American people expect us to use the existing gridlock to create compromise and advance their agenda,” said Rep. Darrell Issa (R, Calif.). “They want us to come together [with the administration] after we agree to disagree.”

This has to qualify as the STUPIDEST bit of idiot-speak I've heard in the recent past -- and in today's political climate, that's saying something. This is a prescription for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, so perhaps there’s little surprise that it's coming from the Republican leadership. The whole point of the Tea Party movement uprising is a rejection of the politics of compromise that has empowered the left to semi-socialize this country.

The problem with the class of ’94 was not that they did not “compromise enough.” It was precisely the opposite: that they compromised too much, and backed down in their confrontations with the administration instead of pushing hard for the agenda that the American people elected them to enact. If the RINOs go this path again, they will be committing permanent political suicide.

GOP House Leaders Seek to Avoid Mistakes of ‘94 – Naftali Bendavid, Wall Street Journal, October 19, 2010.

10/17/2010: Repeal the Bailout Returns

After an extended absence, "Repeal the Bailout" returns at a new URL:

http://www.repealthebailouts.com

The site will be updated and re-formatted in the near future.

2/24/2009: "The Santelli Tea Party"
In some encouraging news for a change: an apparently spontaneous on-air rant last week on by CNBC Analyst Rick Santelli appears to have started to help galvanize a popular backlash against the administration's new "mortgage bailout" plan. Watch the video that everyone is now talking about:

Santelli's Tea Party - Rick Santelli on CNBC "Squawk Box," Feb. 19, 2009 (video).

Rick's Revolution - Rick Santelli on CNBC's The Kudlow Report, Feb. 23, 2009 (video). Kudlow also takes White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs for attacking Rick Santelli in a press conference. (Hat tip to Ed Thompson.)

More recent video appearances by Rick Santelli can be found on his CNBC Profile Page.
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`Resources`

Ethics Primer

How and why financial "bailout" policies are morally repugnant to a free society.
Economics Primer

How and why "bailout" policies are economically unsound, and will lead, not to an economic recovery, but to a severe depression.
Intellectual Activism

How to make the case for economic freedom and personal responsibility in the media, and in the culture in general.
Political Activism

How to make the case to government officials to abandon and repeal taxpayer funded bailout policies.
News

Recent news about the Bailouts -- and their results.
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