[silverleaf]

This appears to be ON TOP OF the $850 BILLION dollar “emergency” TARP

and this precedes the additional so-called $700 BILLION “stimulus” Obummer plans to sign at noon on January 21st

Dear God, what about our Constitution that specifies only Congress was authorized to spend our money?????

Paulsen is out of control, a blind man trying to stuff a crumbling dike with wads of billon dollar bills

Last night former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill said....the bill to the taxpayers will come due next year. Then, there may be no protections left from extraordinary inflation and unemployment. Because ALL this latest debt is being piled on top of $53 TRILLION in existing obligations

[Jack of all Trades]

Ok, so scratch yesterdays plan to pay off my mortgage and hunker down. Here’s the new one: refi through the government giveaway circus, default, then let them write off my loan as a toxic asset. Bingo, I’m going to Vegas!

[musicman]

"Paulsen is out of control, a blind man trying to stuff a crumbling dike with wads of billon dollar bills..."

[djsherin]

What about the fact that the Constitution authorizes NONE of this?

Oh that’s right, we’ve tossed aside that little inconvenience.

[avacado]

"Dear God, what about our Constitution that specifies only Congress was authorized to spend our money?????"

Specifically the House of Representatives. This is Pelosi's turkey all the way.