[rodguy911]

Don’t know if this is the one of not but it is pretty descriptive.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/redstate

scroll down to the sub head that reads
700,000,000,000

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Jeff Birnbaum on FOX News just said that the Dems (and some Repubs) are reneging on support for a 'clean' Financial bill, as agreed to on Friday. They want handouts to the general population too. This may mean NO BAILOUT before the election.

Hope you folks all have full cupboards, this may be a rough ride.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2008
Government Bailouts: A U.S. Tradition Dating to Hamilton

The bubble pops. Lenders freeze. Depositors lose faith. Panic spreads. And the government steps in because nobody else will.

Today it is Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke putting together the rescue package for a financial system rocked by falling home prices and a wave of defaults on subprime mortgages.

[Bailouts throughout history at link]

But a short walk through U.S. history demonstrates the point made by Alex J. Pollock of the American Enterprise Institute: “If you would like an empirical law of government behavior, it is that in a panic or threatened financial collapse, governments intervene — every government, every party, every country, every time.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122186662036058787.html?mod=googlenews_wsj