by Keith Burton - GCN  9/29/08

Today vote by the U.S. House of Representatives on a proposed $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill had web-savvy citizens overwhelming government computers serving the U.S. House.

At 11:41 a.m., all efforts to raise the House's website at www.house.gov returned a 'page cannot be displayed" message, which generally means servers are backed-up with traffic. The vote was held shortly after midday and failed with 228 to 205. House republicans cited partisan actions by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the failure of the bill. More than 90 democrats voted against the measure.

Americans throughout the nation are upset over the bailout plan, details have yet to be outlined, but officials at the highest levels keep saying the the measure is needed to prevent a loss of confidence in the stock market, which is said is severe enough to cause a 1929-type crash and subsequent depression.

At issue is whether the bailout is actually needed, without details, the public feels that the government is failing to properly inform them and question the "experts" that the corporate-controlled media has used so far to explain the crisis.

This morning, GCN contacted Mississippi Congressman Gene Taylor's office about the bailout. Taylor, a democrat, is in Washington, but his staff said this morning that the congressman intended to vote against the bailout bill, despite his party's support of the measure.

Taylor's staff  this afternoon issued a statement from Taylor regarding his vote today:

“I voted against the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street because it would have blindly given the U.S. Treasury and Secretary Paulson unrestricted ability to spend a huge amount of taxpayer money.  Nowhere in the bill did it say exactly how the funds would have been spent.  The Treasury would have decided what to buy and how much to pay for it.  The only thing that could make it worse is if the Treasury would appoint former FEMA director Michael Brown to manage it,"