Here was my email to Maria today,
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
"...but I do not support turning the keys of the U.S. Treasury over to the private sector. I don’t believe it’s the government’s job to pick winners and losers in corporate America. "
This is exactly right. I know the bill past, but thank you for doing the right thing. This is financial dictatorship. Nowhere in the constitution does it say the government should be in the housing, insurance, and car business. As I'm coming to find at this bailout money would also have been used to buy bad debt from China, England and Germany!
I thought for sure you were going to vote for it, especially since McDermott did. He gave a great speech on how he was for it, then voted for the bailout anyway. Then he removed the link to his original speech from his website. You can read about that here if you wish: http://taoeconomics.com/node/1
You have my vote."
You can read her full press realese here: http://cantwell.senate.gov/news/record.cfm?id=303998