Saturday, September 20, 2008

Grand Theft treasury

Holy fuck.

Sec. 8. Review.

Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.

Sec. 9. Termination of Authority.

The authorities under this Act, with the exception of authorities granted in sections 2(b)(5), 5 and 7, shall terminate two years from the date of enactment of this Act.

Sec. 10. Increase in Statutory Limit on the Public Debt.

Subsection (b) of section 3101 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking out the dollar limitation contained in such subsection and inserting in lieu thereof $11,315,000,000,000.


Here, give us $700 Billion without us telling you where its going, raise the legal debt ceiling to $11.3 Trillion so we don't have to bitch about it later, and make it so we can't ever talk about or be accountable for the absolute illegality of the whole thing later.

Wow. Balls.

This is, in essence, what the Iraq portion of the War On Terror became: a blatant attempt by BushCo and subsidiaries to redistribute the US Treasury among a few dozen CEO friends. They've lost everything at the poker table, but losing isn't acceptable so they're demanding that the casino repay them what they came in with, plus a little extra for the inconvenience of feeling like a loser for those five excruciating minutes they thought they might leave empty handed.

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