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Keep Bush administration out of bailout process
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The Obama Blog is unique and the economy is critical. I know they say Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson should be left in until President Bush's term is over. This will be a big mistake. The big G-20 meeting on Nov. 15 will concern why 19 out of 20 countries think we mismanaged our economy with Investment bankers as well as hedge fund dealers, who sometimes operate offshore and push those exotic derivatives that went toxic almost overnight. After that, we can't let the Bush administration handle any of this critical $700 billion-plus bailout. Their intentions are to just protect the banks that believe in the theory of "too big to fail," and that's the investment bankers.

There's not enough money in the Social Security Fund to bail out everyone. It's crucial that we take care of our commercial banks that do business with us working people. Everything should be turned over to the GAO after the Nov. 15 meeting to handle until the new president takes office.

We taxpayers will be amazed with what the FBI will find out after investigating Lehman Brothers and what we already are reading in business magazines such as "Business Week" and others. Going along with what Bernanke says will just be telling everybody that the Democrats are not really sincere in doing anything about the "trickle down" theory. It's business as usual.

I have written more than 35 letters on the Obama Blog in the last four months and when I returned from farming successfully, someone asked my friend what I do now and he told them that I was an investment banker, which I'm not. I'm a converted Sen. Hillary Clinton supporter who believes in "Taxing Hedge Fund Dealers." I used to be a Republican and when I read about President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his theory of "taxing on ability to pay," he converted me into an Independent Blue Dog Democrat. That's why I'm glad Sen. Obama won because he sounds like President Franklin Roosevelt when he talks.