started in reaction to the bailout of wall street. and i think oddly enough, as much as it might not look like it on the surface, if you sat down with a group of the occupy wall street protesters and with a group from the tea party, you would see that there is a lot of agreement here. they re occupying wall street for a reason. they re not on wisteria lane. they re not on main street. they re saying wall street and its corrupt relationship with the government on both sides of the political aisle has put our country s economy and our american families at risk. so occupy wall street at its heart has a lot of the same thing at its heart that the tea party had. the tea party said these bailouts are totally unacceptable and i think occupy wall street is also coming forward and saying this relationship does not work for the american people. so i think they should stay until something laura: until what? not guilty something starts to happen. laura: i feel what you re saying, but you c
income paid in any of the companies that took assistance in the federal government s bailout of wall street, the so-called tarp fund. my simple question to eric cantor that day is how are you going to vote on a 90% top income tax rate on some taxpayers. have you and your republican colleagues finally found a tax increase that you can love? are you going to vote for the tax seizure bill that the house of representatives is going to vote on today to seize those bonuses back which, by the way, just for the record, side bar here, counselor, that will not be sustained by the supreme court. but go ahead. i said that yesterday. but what i want to know, congressman contrar it s unconstitutional. if you re opposed to these bonuses, have you finally found a tax increase that you like?
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what the democratic party, the stimulus spending was intended to boost the american economy for all americans. it wasn t democratic projects but projects intended to be as quickly ready. republicans were against that. no, in fact, republicans initially and remember republicans, president bush for the bailout of wall street understood the economy was in desperate situation, in risk of depression. and needed to pull us out. that s an understatement and democrats thought he should have spent more money. democrats thought there should have been a public option. they re never happy. you see the atmosphere is one the republicans are constantly hammering president obama. i think paul krugman in the new york times wrote why are you negotiating? it s like a stockholm syndrome, trying to be nice to people holding you hostage. democrats got something in this deal. i think so. i think by the way it s a good deal in the sense i think it s good for the american people. i think it s goi