Dear Senator Boxer and Senator Feinstein
Please do not vote for a blank check to be provided to Paulson and company. He and his cohorts are the problem not the solution. Their insistence on the present emergency and the need for a gift of 700 billion dollars of taxpayer money is the latest and most outrageous example of “Disaster Capitalism.” The U.S. Congress has fallen for this before: the Patriot Act, Iraq, the Surge, to our growing regret.
It is your job to check and balance the Executive Branch, especially in cases like this when that branch is attempting an economic coup d’etat. This amount of taxpayer money could do more good for the economy by being distributed to pay off people’s mortgages and providing them with health insurance rather than being handed over to those carrying out an immense extortion scheme.