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Bailout must be stopped

The trillion-dollar bailout of financial corporations and institutions must be stopped for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that the bailout is, in the words of Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), “financial socialism“!  But check this out:

In the dark of night over the weekend when most people were snoozing, the Treasury dramatically expanded its bailout plan to include buying student loans, car loans, credit card debt and any other “troubled” assets held by banks.

The changes, which were included in draft language that also opened the bailout program to foreign banks with extensive loan operations in the United States, potentially added tens of billions of dollars to the cost of the program.

Although it was a major addition to what was already the nation’s largest-ever bailout, it did not become part of the debate between Democrats and the Treasury over details of the program. A Monday counterproposal by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher J. Dodd included such consumer loans as well as mortgages, just as the Treasury’s draft did Saturday night.

“The costs of the bailout will be significantly higher than originally considered or acknowledged,” said Joshua Rosner, managing director of Graham Fisher & Co., who charged that the Treasury and Federal Reserve have not been “forthright” about the ultimate cost to the public. The plan gives Treasury the discretion to buy the non-mortgage loans and securities in consultation with the Fed. …

I was joking with some friends that while the feds are at it, they can bail out car debtors and credit card debtors, too…why stop at mortgages?  I was joking.  Apparently, the joke’s on me.  Actually, the joke’s on all of us.

September 24, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | big government, economic ignorance, socialism