However, there was little fear among them as their own financial organs quickly released a tidal wave of pre-planned liquidity to stem the tide: "Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve will pump an additional $630 billion into the global financial system, flooding banks with cash to alleviate the worst banking crisis since the Great Depression..."
Then, on Friday: "October 4, 2008, WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives approved the $700-billion Wall Street bailout Friday, setting in motion the biggest government intervention in the financial system since the Great Depression.
President Bush quickly signed the bill, and Treasury Department officials vowed to move swiftly to use sweeping new powers to try to stabilize financial markets and ease deepening fears about the economy..."
Let me break that down for you:
$630 billion
+ $700 billion
--------------------
$1.3 trillion
or
$1,300,000,000,000
In other words:
The ruling class' latest financial bubble in their brain-dead Chicago, Fascist, Communist, Capitalist, Authoritarian, Corporate economic school of central banking required them to steal $1.3 trillion dollars from We The People of these Independent and Free States to cover their asses.
In other news, the Satanic (shout out to LightningRod and the Liberty Forum Tribe, represent) feminazi Child Support State continues to impoverish and separate fathers and children while the ruling class that enslaves the same feminazis that support it laugh hysterically and pocket free hand-outs. Our nation's own children aren't good enough for free support direct from the State, no strings attached, but Wall Street is? Fecking eejits. Then we'll all wonder why there are so many poor, fatherless children running around sociopathically:
"Sociopathy is chiefly characterized by something wrong with the person's conscience. They either don't have one, it's full of holes like Swiss cheese, or they are somehow able to completely neutralize or negate any sense of conscience or future time perspective. Sociopaths only care about fulfilling their own needs and desires - selfishness and egocentricity to the extreme. Everything and everybody else is mentally twisted around in their minds as objects to be used in fulfilling their own needs and desires. They often believe they are doing something good for society, or at least nothing that bad. The term 'sociopath" is frequently used by psychologists and sociologists alike in referring to persons whose unsocialized character is due primarily to parental failures (usually fatherlessness) rather than an inherent feature of temperament."
Nothing personal of course. Ahem.
Finally, I'm sure there's plenty of games in the arena today for you to gaze moronically at while drinking large quantities of brain killing alcohol, so pay all of this no mind and continue to snuggle into your TV's warm glow. Everything will be fine. Nothing to see here. Fecking sheeple.

(...LF tribe, LightningRod...)