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Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

oh my gosh this article called $700 Billion questions on truthout.org says it all. Sirota had it spot on:

"Just as they do today at the National Archives' Declaration of Independence exhibit, tourists in the future-perhaps in Beijing, perhaps somewhere else-will line up to see a framed draft of this week's White House legislation demanding Congress surrender its power of the purse, and give an unelected appointee-in this case, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson-the power to hand over $700 billion of taxpayer money to "any financial institution," "without limitation...on such terms and conditions as determined by [him]."

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"Using the same playbook that succeeded in passing the Patriot Act and the Iraq War authorization with almost no questions, politicians will inevitably invoke love of country, fear, loathing and red-alert emergency-all designed to ram this bill into law as fast as possible, with as little scrutiny as possible."

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

no time to think just act...

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

TBill as a card carrying conservative and Iraqi war vet, I find your statement about the similarities between the rush of the Patriot Act and this crisis eerily familiar...Quick quick give me your wallet so I can buy a fire extinguisher your house is on fire or folks this offer is available only today if you don't act now all is lost..Was not our hasty entrance to an unpopular war marked by a deafening beat of drums to action that nobody could hear themselves think to make an appropriate response...