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The U.S. Economy

2008-09-22, 5:36 PM #1

Freelancer

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2008-09-22, 5:50 PM #2

fishstickz

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I love "conservative" free markets! Do whatever you want with unchecked power, until you crash and burn and we'll bail you out, spitting in the face of all those companies that were fiscally responsible!

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2008-09-22, 5:51 PM #3

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For those of us who live under a rock, could someone explain this?

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2008-09-22, 5:53 PM #4

Freelancer

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Basically, congress is going to give the secretary of treasury Henry Paulson 700 billion dollars that we don't have and he's gonna fix stuff. Starting with his own accounts no doubt.

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2008-09-22, 6:14 PM #5

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2008-09-22, 6:14 PM #6

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Originally posted by Freelancer:

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2008-09-22, 9:22 PM #7

Wuss

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Originally posted by fishstickz:

I love "conservative" free markets! Do whatever you want with unchecked power, until you crash and burn and we'll bail you out, spitting in the face of all those companies that were fiscally responsible!

Economic do-over!

2008-09-22, 9:49 PM #8

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Aww

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2008-09-23, 5:07 PM #9

Freelancer

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I just found out about this:

Quote:

Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.

That's a sentence in the bailout legislation.

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2008-09-23, 5:32 PM #10

Jay

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Originally posted by Freelancer:

I just found out about this:



That's a sentence in the bailout legislation.

Oh no they didn't!

Anything can be reviewed by any court. Or at least, they should, since, you know, if they aren't, that's kind of screwing up the whole checks and balances thing.

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