Folks,
I'll start with the fundraising plea and then get down into it.
Georgians are quite angry about the rescue plan that has been just been passed and made into law. At a time when Atlanta just finished choking on fuel shortages, and the rest of the state higher prices than nationally due to short supply, when many Georgians are looking at the bad side of housing value shifts, and dealing with other problems, it has been shown just how close Wall Street and Washington are.
Personally, I think there is a little more hype about the downside of this rescue plan than the mitigating factors. The price will likely not be nearly so high as $700B, and avoiding an economic meltdown is vitally important. However, charity on the issue is hard to come by when one compares how much concern the Bush administration has shown for Main Street (Katrina, a hostile labor board, a blind eye and middle finger turned to those suffering foreclosures), and then how quickly it runs to the rescue when its ex-Sachs Treasury Secretary finally gets clued in that the financial world isn't doing so well.
Saxby Chambliss' vote in the Senate for this bill has thus opened a golden opportunity in the race down here in Georgia.
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