The Casone Exchange
  • October 3, 2008 04:52 PM EDT by Cheryl Casone

    I'll Sign, But I'm Not Happy!

    That pretty much sums up how Congress feels about the rescue package that was signed today by President Bush.  By now they are on planes heading home to face their constituents, and they are not happy about their situation.  Sure, they voted yes, and many changed their minds from their initial no, but now the work has to be done.  I plan to blog about the next move by the Treasury this weekend.  For now, enjoy this little argument I had with a nice Congressman from Tennessee.

    CC

Blake

Where is a list of how they voted?

October 3, 2008 at 6:31 pm

brian

i am new here and not sure how to ask a ?...........what happened to the $630B that the federal reserve dropped into the system....where did it go?....thats a huge amount.... why is no one talking about it?.....one of your guest mentioned it, he said, the fed put in $630b how is that going? and the comment was sidestepped, i tried to find it but it seems that video is gone now........

October 3, 2008 at 7:54 pm

Susan

Vote everyone member of Congress out of office! If they are Dems, vote Republican. If they are Republican, vote Dem. They are not listening to the people so they need to go. They, along with the rest of the Belway boys ( and girls), are destroying this country. Let's vote them ALL out before it's too late!

October 3, 2008 at 8:00 pm

Gary Driscoll

The "I'm not happy about it" is just the usual politician's attempt to have it both ways--vote for the disaster and pretend to really be against it. VOTE THEM OUT!

October 3, 2008 at 8:57 pm

B Scott

People are dying overseas to bring US style "democracy" to foreign countries????

October 3, 2008 at 11:05 pm

chuck

Cheryl both bills were frankly badly written business proposals. I read the failed HR bill earlier in the week. Let's say we're in the UNDISCOVRERED COUNTRY. But I prefer down the rabbit hole. Now what are the consequences and unattended consquences? I have to wait and see.

October 4, 2008 at 1:55 am

Ordinary Guy

The lights are turned on and to our horror we find rat droppings on our plate. The scurrying rats freeze by instinct. Those that we pay to maintain our house, with their best wisdom, garnish the plate with green and then more green. Still the droppings remain. We ask, “What about the rats?” No one pays attention. As is their nature, the rats cautiously start to move… feeding.

October 4, 2008 at 8:46 am

Don

Why are they not happy? They have screwed us again, they should have a big smile and a smoke! I commented on another blog, that "these people make Glenn Beck look like a brain surgeon and he is not that smart". I just wonder how much tha average American is going to take before there is a "Real March on Washington"! Don from FL.

October 4, 2008 at 8:58 am

andy48

There are some high points to signing this bill. Average people like myself will benefit from this signature. Again my story can't be the only story of it's kind. My 24 year old daughter just graduated from college and six months later all her student loans are due. Because banks are not lending she couldn't consolidate her loans . As a result she has to make minimum payments on all 18 loans or $2000 a month payments. I her father am disabled and her mom drives a school bus. We can't afford $2000 monthly payments. THANK Cavuto's ZOMBIES for signing this bill. Andy48

October 4, 2008 at 5:51 pm

john

My legislators voted no and I applaud them for that. I am with Cavuto--we needed to let banks and groups fail. Now we have a socialist government that Obama will make even more socialist, since McCain does not have the balls to confront him and take him to task. Even if he did the leftist media would not allow any degredation of Obama. I would move to the Cayman Islands if I had the money.

October 5, 2008 at 11:39 am

B Scott

All I can say is, Glenn Beck is smart enough to have known that this mess was coming,and broadcast the gloom and doom for years. Seems quite smart enough for me.

October 5, 2008 at 8:08 pm

Ray

When or will any hearings begin, faces (buisness and government)named and the guilty sent to jail? - I've lost thousands in my IRA / retirement fund!

October 6, 2008 at 8:54 am

Ronnie

When are you and the rest of the Fox Business and Fox News going to start pushing the facts that this mess started way back in the mid 90's with the push for more minority/low income home owners. These Congressmen and Senators who pushed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to back these ridiculous loans that everyone from the borrower, mortgage broker, and lender knew would go bad.

October 6, 2008 at 12:55 pm

Jim

Members of Congress need to be scattered to the wind, that includes the House and Senate, all of them, literally, They all need to be sent back to their respective districts and be immediatedly accountable when they try to sneak a purely political, pork laden vote in. Why can't these morons not avail themselves of video/tele-conferencing technologies like the rest of the freaking world? Congress is the Houston Nutt of college football coaches. Blame everyone else and do anything to protect that ego and power.

October 6, 2008 at 12:55 pm

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  • Cheryl Casone joined FOX Business Network (FBN) in September 2007 as an anchor. Prior to FBN, Casone served as a correspondent for FOX News Channel’s (FNC) business unit and was a regular guest on FNC’s Your World with Neil Cavuto. Casone brings years of experience covering finance, business, and consumer news to FBN.

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