The time has come for the American public to strike some kind of fear in the tiny hearts of congress, Regardless of political affiliation, we need to start voting for someone else, anybody else, as long as they are not the ones currently in power. If the new ones can’t do it, we just keep voting for someone else until, at the very least, this stagnant, corrupt bunch of criminals is purged. All of these assholes, red and blue alike, have taken money from the very companies they are now feigning outrage towards. They are the true perpetrators of this crisis.

Ed Koch, RealClearPolitics:

Taxpayer Fleecing Must Be Stopped

Apparently, even under a forward looking, honest, able and liberal president, the forces of government are such that the public — like sheep meeting the shears — is being fleeced again.

The average citizen is terrified about the future and does not fully comprehend the implications of all of the bailout money – trillions of dollars – that is being handed out to the business institutions. Those in charge of the carnage are telling the American people that we do not have the right to know how or where those trillions will end up. Because of public outrage over A.I.G., which has received $170 billion in bailout funds, this week A.I.G. released a partial list of the companies receiving TARP money, a list that includes Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Bank of America and Wachovia. While the payments are apparently legitimate, the attempted cover-up was infuriating.

Remember the phrase from the Nixon years and Watergate – follow the money. Well, it still applies. Prior to the release of the partial list of names, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, who knew where the money was going, told us that it is “proprietary information” and not publicly available. Only the proprietor – the owner – should have that information.

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