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Daniel R. Glickman is a man of many talents. A former Congressman from Kansas, Director of the IOP, Secretary of Agriculture and currently the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) president, this guy has dealt with everything from grains to George Clooney. FM sat down with this multi-talented man to ask him some questions about his unusual life...
California "If I ask, Should we bail out Wall Street?, you won't get 1 in 50 of my constituents to say yes," says Pete Stark, the Democratic Congressman from the Fremont area. "They don't want their tax money to pay for this." And so he voted against the measure. "Fremont has one of the highest foreclosure rates in California, and unemployment is high. I think their feeling is, Why should you be bailing out Wall Street when we know people who can't afford junior college tuition? They see the Wall Street giants as extremely rich people very...
...water-cooler conversation pretty much everywhere you go," says Bruce Cosgrove, head of the Auburn Chamber of Commerce (local Congressman John Doolittle voted against the bill). "We're all talking about this right now. [But] we are at the mercy of Congress. In the end, we have to hope they get it right, and that's where the uncertainty fits back in again...
Some of the homeowners who are losing wealth reside in Clarke County, Ga., Congressman Broun's home turf, which also had $1.9 billion in deposits in financial institutions in 2006, according to the University of Georgia. That ain't chicken feed. And speaking of which, the fourth largest employer in the region, poultry processor Pilgrim's Pride, is now struggling with financing because credit markets have seized. There are 1,500 jobs in the balance if, say, Pilgrim's Pride can't make payroll because it doesn't have access to funds. It is unlikely that any of those workers...
...doubt or two after checking their mutual funds balances. Broun is resolute that taxpayer money won't be used "to give a golden parachute to Wall Street that our grandchildren may still be paying for many decades from now." But Wall Street is all of us, including the Congressman from the 10th District in Georgia. We are all going to eat the cow patty. The only question is, how big will...