Surprise! Congress Votes to Saddle You With a Trillion Dollars of New Debt

So, let’s see. The same people who were panicked by Bush into giving up their constitutional power to declare war, the same people who were panicked into voting for the Patriot Act without reading it, the same people who were panicked into voting for the Military Commissions Act and thereby tossing aside your rights in the name of keeping you safe from "the terrorists", the same people who caused the lockup of credit by passing the Community Reinvestment Act (forcing lenders to make loans to people who couldn’t afford them), these same people have now been panicked into passing the biggest financial ripoff of the people in history, a trillion dollar buyout of worthless paper that will saddle all of us with debt while the billionaire bankers make any profits. The same people who were conned by Greenspan and Bernanke into tolerating the giant housing bubble, lower than real market interest rates and printing money at hugely inflationary rates, these same people n...