Sweetner

In order to get the senate to buy into the bailout, a 120 billion dollar sweetner was added to the pot. Not bad for a day's work if you ask me.

On Capitol Hill, they call it "sweetening the pot." Out in the real world, it's called bribery.

Whatever you call it, proponents of the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street, banks and the financial industry are loading up the legislation with pork, inducements and favors for members of Congress in exchange for the votes needed to pass the bill when it hits the floor of the House of Representative on Friday.

At last count, the bribes will add at least $120 billion to the cost of the bailout.

This says it all.

Imagine the random fun an army of accountants could have with a $700 billion portfolio of this stuff? I can’t wait for the Fed itself to dispense with fair value accounting…

Just to add insult to injury, the senate managed to sneak into the bailout all sorts of random and insulting things...

The people get SHAFTED. AGAIN.

Not to add insult to injury but we also have a 650 billion dollar defense bill to deal with.

Question: What does the Bailout accomplish?
Answer: It rescues the guilty. - Paul Craig Roberts

Hey brother, can you spare me a dime?