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September 22, 2008 - Sen. Bernie Sanders and Robert Scheer on the Proposed $700 Billion Bailout of Wall Street, the Largest Government Bailout of Private Industry in US History Robert Scheer in Los Angeles, California, veteran journalist, syndicated columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle, editor of the political website, Truthdig. He is the author of several books, most recently The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America. Its being described as the largest government intervention in private markets since the Great Depression. The Bush administration has asked Congress to swiftly approve a massive $700 billion package to rescue the crippled financial institutions on Wall Street. Some analysts say the final cost to taxpayers could top one trillion dollars. Over the weekend, the size of the proposed bailout grew as the Bush administration said foreign banks, including Barclays and UBS, should be eligible for the bailout. Essentially, what the President has asked for is a $700 billion blank check. He wants Congress to hand over $700 billion to Henry Paulson to use to buy, you know, bad originally mortgage-backed securities. Theres apparently an effort by the financial community to broaden that, but basically he would have a blank check to bail out Wall Street. And let me just make one point that everyone should be very, very clear on. This was not an accident, in the sense that this is like a hurricane. This was a totally predictable event. So when President Bush or Henry Paulson say, you know, we have to come to the rescue, it is because of their incompetence, because people who understood the economy were warning about this a long, long time ago. This was a totally predictable event that brought us here. For years now, theyve told us that we cant afford—that the government providing healthcare to all people is just unimaginable; it cant be done. We dont have the money to rebuild our infrastructure. We dont have the money to wipe out poverty. We cant do it. But all of a sudden, yeah, we do have $700 billion for a bailout of Wall Street. So, my view is that, included in what we do, there should be a significant stimulus package, a really significant one, which addresses healthcare, which addresses sustainable energy, which addresses the infrastructure, which creates substantial number of jobs, addressing many of the long-term unmet needs of this country.
Chevron Reports a 22% Yearly Profit Increase
Chevron Corp's record 2006 profit of $17.14 billion was 22% higher than its record of 2005, overwhelming its slight drop in the 4th quarter and more than triple the 9% yearly profit increase of Exxon and larger than other oil companies' as well. The nonprofit, nonpartisan FTCR noted that Chevron's 11% profit decline in the company's US gasoline refining and marketing profits in the fall 4th quarter, widely suspected to be a deliberate profit restriction to reduce gasoline prices in advance of the November election, was offset by a 44% increase in international profits from refining. This adds to indirect evidence that the U.S. refining profit drop was voluntary in an attempt to quell popular anger at a time when high gas prices had become a key political issue and California voters were considering Proposition 87 to force oil companies to pay for alternative fuel development.
Milton Friedman on Self-Interest and the Profit Motive 2of2
This clip is from the 15-part lecture series, "Milton Friedman Speaks" http://www.ideachannel.com/product_info.php?products_id=1137 Transcript available via FreedomChannel: http://freedomchannel.blogspot.com/2007/12/milton-friedman-on-slavery.html Summary: A student poses a series of question on based on Friedman's notion that people should pursue their own self-interest. The student points out that he'd read that Friedman had previously come out against disaster aid for victims of a flood in Pennsylvania. Friedman corrected the questioner and noted that he did not come out against private aid for flood victims but instead was against the Federal Government providing discounted flood insurance in advance to home purchasers which motivated people to build houses in areas where they otherwise would not have been able to obtain insurance privately. If not for the discounted insurance, it's likely many of the flooded houses would never have been built in the first place as it wouldn't have been in peoples self-interest. The student went on to note that it was recently reported that an old man in Ohio died when the electric company turned off his power when he'd failed to pay his electric bill. Was it moral for the company to act in it's own self-interest to do so? Friedman responded by asking what if the electric company never turned off the power for anyone? Who would pay the cost--the people who own or work at the electric company? It would be unjust to impose that responsibility on individuals who are running an honest business of providing electricity. Friedman suggests that the true responsibility lies on the mans neighbors and friends who were not charitable enough to allow him to meet the electric bills. Finally the student uses the example of Ford deciding not to install a $13 block of plastic which would prevent it's Pinto cars from exploding in a rear-end collision. Ford estimated such a move would cost 200 lives a year at a cost of $200,000 per life lost. They multiplied and found that it wasn't worth it to install the plastic block. He asked if a corporation seeking it's own self-interest was a good thing in this case? Friedman responded by asking, what if it cost $1 billion to save each life, should Ford have put in the block? It's simply not practical to put an infinite value on an individuals life. If it took $1 billion in resources to keep one individual safe, and acquiring those resources meant that a million people must starve, it's a bad deal. Friedman concludes that he doesn't know if the $200,000 number that Ford used was the right number to maximize the overall benefits, but at the end of the day the principle is that we can't simply protect ourselves from everything and impose that cost on others. Friedman posits that the question the student should be raising, is should Ford be required to attach the statement to the car, "we've made this car $13 cheaper, and therefore it is X% more risky for you to buy it". See also: Free to Choose - All 15 episodes streaming online for free http://www.ideachannel.tv A history of Free to Choose http://www.freetochoose.com
Earnings Watch: General Electric 3Q Profit Drops 22%
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