'3rd Pearl Harbor' 'bailout' -- "decisions non-reviewable by any court or agency" -Bush to rul

'3rd Pearl Harbor' 'bailout' -- "decisions non-reviewable by any court or agency" -Bush to rule

totally typical Bush dynasty Nazi/neo-Nazi/fascist b.s. - -

Dirty Secret Of The Bailout: Thirty-Two Words That None Dare Utter
www.huffingtonpost.com...

(-----note: I just saw a related post, called, 'Dirty Secret of the Bailout: Thirty-two Words that none dare utter', at www.abovetopsecret.com...
PLEASE make any related comments at that url.-----
HOWEVER, the other 2/3's of this post quotes a different article, called, 'Paulson's Folly' -- so please make comments about that article, here. -thx)

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.

In short, the so-called "mother of all bailouts," which will transfer $700 billion taxpayer dollars to purchase the distressed assets of several failed financial institutions, will be conducted in a manner unchallengeable by courts and ungovernable by the People's duly sworn representatives.

All decision-making power will be consolidated into the Executive Branch- who, we remind you, will have the incentive to act upon this privilege as quickly as possible, before they leave office.

The measure will run up the budget deficit by a significant amount, with no guarantee of recouping the outlay, and no fundamental means of holding those who fail to do so accountable.

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Is this starting to sound familiar? Robert Kuttner cuts through much of the gloss in an article www.prospect.org... in today's American Prospect:

Paulson's Folly
The deal proposed by Paulson is nothing short of outrageous. It includes no oversight of his own closed-door operations. It merely gives congressional blessing and funding to what he has already been doing, ad hoc.

He plans to retain Wall Street firms as advisors to decide just how to cut deals to value and mop up Wall Street's dubious paper. There are to be no limits on executive compensation for the firms that get relief, and no equity share for the government in exchange for this massive infusion of capital.

Both Obama and McCain have opposed the provision denying any judicial review of decisions made by Paulson -- a

provision that evokes the Bush administration's suspension of normal constitutional safeguards in its conduct of foreign policy and national security.

The differences between this proposed bailout and the three closest historical equivalents are immense. When the Reconstruction Finance Corporation of the 1930s pumped a total of $35 billion into U.S. corporations and financial institutions,

there was close government supervision and quid pro quos at every step of the way.

Much of the time, the RFC became a preferred shareholder, and often appointed board members. The Home Owners Loan Corporation, which eventually refinanced one in five mortgage loans,

did not operate to bail out banks but to save homeowners.

And the Resolution Trust Corporation of the 1980s, created to mop up the damage of the first speculative mortgage meltdown, the S&L collapse, did not pump in money to rescue bad investments; it sorted out good assets from bad after the fact, and made sure to purge bad executives as well as bad loans.

And all three of these historic cases of public recapitalization were done without suspending judicial review.

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