The Toxic Assets We Elected

washingtonpost.com

By George F. Will
Tuesday, March 24, 2009; A13

With the braying of 328 yahoos -- members of the House of Representatives who voted for retroactive and punitive use of the tax code to confiscate the legal earnings of a small, unpopular group -- still reverberating, the Obama administration yesterday invited private-sector investors to become business partners with the capricious and increasingly anti-constitutional government. This latest plan to unfreeze the financial system came almost half a year after Congress shoveled $700 billion into the Troubled Assets Relief Program, $325 billion of which has been spent without purchasing any toxic assets...

Will nails it! There are a great many of our elected officials working to trash The Constitution. Sadly, there are a large number of people in this country who are encouraging this or just don't care.

Here's a link to another excellent article on the subject by Dr. Thomas Sowell - Cheap Political Theater