TARP was Bushes bright idea, and as opposed to preventing another great depression - it made the current recession slightly less acute, lengthened it, and guaranteed we actually do get another great depression.

All Obama has really done, is find new ways to jail people, find new ways to hand out cash to the oligarchy, and finish what Nixon started in regards to fucking up our health care system beyond all possibility of ever fixing and find new ways to weaken our constitutional protections against abusive govt.


For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)