Foneshow delivers audio content directly to your cell phone. With automatic notification, the content is always fresh; it's great for news, finance, and sports programming. You don't need a data plan or a smart phone to use Foneshow!

Subscribe to this Foneshow... Jim Hightower's Common-Sense Commentaries National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, co-editor of the monthly "Hightower Lowdown" and author of "Thieves In High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time to Take It Back," Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be -- consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks. © (c) 1996-2007 Saddle Burr Productions. • Podcast home page

1 Enter  your cell #  and  Enter your  password  and   Forgot? We just sent a new password to your phone! Please enter  your e-mail address and  ZIP code  and  Thanks! Almost done... 2 You'll get a text message ...got it? If it doesn't come within a minute or so, click here to start over. or click here to start over. 3 Just dial and listen! On most phones, you can just hit "Send" to call a phone number in a text message. It's important! If you don't call the number, you're not really subscribed!

< List shows

LET???S BUST WALL STREET BANK ROBBERS

Date: 09/29/2008
Length: 00:02:09

On September 19, Ryan Mueller was sentenced in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, to six years in prison for stealing $20 from a toddler???s piggy bank.

Think how much better things would have gone for him had his name been Freddie Mac, Bear Stearns, or any of the other monikers of the high-flying Wall Street investment banks. These institutional street thugs have robbed the piggy banks of millions of American homeowners. Yet, only two days after Ryan Mueller's conviction, Treasury secretary Henry Paulson went running after the Wall Street Gang ??? not to arrest them, but to cover their wrongdoing with a $700-billion bailout.

That???s more than $2,000 for every man, woman, and child in our land ??? victims being forced to pay the perpetrators of a legalized theft that has wrecked the housing market, eliminated thousands of jobs, and sent our economy into a deep tailspin.

Paulson (formerly a Wall Street Banking honcho, himself) wanted what he called ???a clean??? bailout bill. In other words, an 11-or-12-figure transfer of wealth from us to them, with no strings attached ??? no punishment for the scofflaws who were in charge, no help for homeowners who got robbed, no protection for taxpayers, and no re-regulation to keep the kleptocrats from repeating their grand larceny.

Bush & Company has had to choke down a huge serving of ideological crow here. He and his laizzes-faire wrecking crew forced this jerry-rigged system of ???Yee-Haw!??? capitalism on America, and now they want socialism to clean up their disaster.

The Bushites tell us we have no choice, for these giants are ???too big to fail.??? Well ??? hello ??? if that???s so, it???s time to break them up, not make them even bigger and fewer. Let???s put a little competition in the system, so America does not remain at the mercy of a handful of financial greedheads and boneheads.

Foneshow does not charge for this service, but standard or other charges may apply from your carrier. Please check your plan to make sure. To stop receiving text messages at anytime, text STOP to 44636. For help, text HELP to 44636 or email support@4info.net.