<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c7306832-bfb0-49aa-8959-3aaab62fc27b/C12D0F14-0EC6-4739-8852-002B445D9C54/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Treasury-Secretary-Hank-Pa-by-Gene-Messick-081114-487.html" href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Treasury-Secretary-Hank-Pa-by-Gene-Messick-081114-487.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.opednews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Treasury-Secretary-Hank-Pa-by-Gene-Messick-081114-487.html">Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson pulled another fast one on American taxpayers.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Treasury-Secretary-Hank-Pa-by-Gene-Messick-081114-487.html"><DIV><SPAN> Obediently, </SPAN><SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Congress</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN> swallowed </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Hank's</SPAN> <EM>Bailout Pig</EM><SPAN>, whole.</SPAN></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Treasury-Secretary-Hank-Pa-by-Gene-Messick-081114-487.html"><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><FONT color="#000000">Now</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN>, barely a month later, </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Hank</SPAN><SPAN> is telling us </SPAN><SPAN>what he <SPAN><SPAN>already knew</SPAN></SPAN> from the beginning: that the </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">$700,000,000,000</SPAN><SPAN> he got from Congress to </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Bailout</SPAN><SPAN> distressed homeowner mortgages couldn't be done soon enough to make any difference.  That's why, thus far, his </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Bailout Czar Neel Kaskari</SPAN><SPAN> (also imported from </SPAN><FONT><FONT color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Goldman-$achs</SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN>) has NOT </SPAN><SPAN>bought </SPAN><EM>ONE SINGLE distressed mortgage.</EM><SPAN>  </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Treasury-Secretary-Hank-Pa-by-Gene-Messick-081114-487.html"><SPAN>Instead, </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Hank</SPAN><SPAN> announced:  I changed my mind. This money is </SPAN><EM>only</EM><SPAN> going to </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Bailout</SPAN><SPAN> my buddies who are Bankers. </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Treasury-Secretary-Hank-Pa-by-Gene-Messick-081114-487.html"><SPAN><SPAN>What </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Hank</SPAN><SPAN> really means is that he hopes they will become</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN>"to big to regulate"<SPAN>.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Treasury-Secretary-Hank-Pa-by-Gene-Messick-081114-487.html"><SPAN>When <SPAN>Speaker</SPAN> of the House </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Nancy Pelosie</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Treasury-Secretary-Hank-Pa-by-Gene-Messick-081114-487.html"><SPAN>announced that <SPAN>Congress</SPAN> might take back some of </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Hank</SPAN><SPAN>'s money to </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Bailou</SPAN><SPAN>t the nearly bankrupt </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">US Auto Industry</SPAN><SPAN>, Hank replied sharply, "</SPAN>NO! <SPAN> This is my pile. I swiped it. You approved it. </SPAN><EM>It's mine</EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Treasury-Secretary-Hank-Pa-by-Gene-Messick-081114-487.html"><SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Hank</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN> and </SPAN><SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">GwB</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN> just pulled off the greatest </SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><FONT color="#000000">Bait 'n Switch Scam</FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><FONT color="#000000"></FONT></SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C12D0F14-0EC6-4739-8852-002B445D9C54/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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