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Rejection of $700B Wall Street bailout slows house server to a crawl

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As the House of Representative narrowly rejected the $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill on Monday, another kind of carnage occurred amid the ensuing stock market plunges around the world; millions of visitors seeking pertinent information slowed the 10 servers running the House's official website to a crawl. A spokesman for these servers noted that technicians will be working through the night to handle the massive increase in traffic. Indeed, some other sites that monitor U.S. legislation, such as GovTrack.us, have taken such a beating that they were shut down temporarily. Other sites, such as those for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, also saw traffic surge immediately following the rejection of the bailout bill.

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- check out this article from The Register

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Fight the Wall Street Bailout

This bailout is nothing but bad news. There is no real crisis, the market sell of is a result of fear mongering by President Bush

The bill allows for foreign banks to dump all of their bad assets into American banks<, who can in turn sell the debt to the treasury.

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE PUT ON THE HOOK FOR WALL STREET, AND ESPECIALLY NOT FOR COMMUNIST NATIONS LIKE CHINA!

IMPORTANT: YOUR ACTION IS NEEDED. SEND THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW.

Congress will meet again tomorrow to vote on a revised version of the bill.

ITS STILL THE SAME BILL.

It allows foreign banks from Nation Like China and England to transfer an unlimited amount of bad debt to be transferred to our tax bill.

THE GOVERNMENT SCARES THE HELL OUT OF US THREATENING MAIN STREET WITH THE NEXT GREAT DEPRESSION. But this bill will help COMMUNISTS in SHANGHAI . Not patriotic Americans.

Please contact your congress men. Call them, fax them, email and tell them no way before its too late. Election day is soon, let them know there will be consequences for voting for this criminal bill.

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