Main Street Bailout

8 Random Items for 1/8/2009 #8

If Congress needs just three weeks to pass a Wall Street bailout, then we should be able to count on our leaders to pass Main Street relief with as much urgency. Now is the time to make that change that works by getting our economy back on track and building a country where the dreams we have for our families and our children can come true.

- Andy Stern, President of Service Employees International Union (from TPM)

Andy, Andy, Andy. You are a brilliant man and you will one be remembered as one of the great leaders in the history of the labor movement, but come on. Do you think the Republicans in Congress even remotely care about "our families and our children"?