The President's Secret Plan To Fight Inflation
Sep 21, 2008 · 1 minute read
Sec. 8. Review.
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.
So if Henry Paulson decides that he'd rather spend the $700bn on going to Disneyland instead, there's nothing that anybody can do about it?
An anonymous Democratic congressman writes:
Paulsen and congressional Republicans, or the few that will actually vote for this (most will be unwilling to take responsibility for the consequences of their policies), have said that there can't be any "add ons," or addition provisions. Fuck that. I don't really want to trigger a world wide depression (that's not hyperbole, that's a distinct possibility), but I'm not voting for a blank check for $700 billion for those mother fuckers.
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I'm open to other ideas, and I am looking for volunteers who want to hold the sons of bitches so I can beat the crap out of them.