Absolute Power

I think it's time we stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's goin' down
--Buffalo Springfield

Hammerin' Hank is tossing together a plan this weekend that will make the 1930s Reconstruction Finance Corp and 1980s Resolution Trust Corp programs look like peanuts. The government is seeking virtually unlimited power to purchase mortgage-related and 'other' assets without explicit justification.

As usual, both sides of the aisle are in lockstep on this program's 'necessity.'

Are people of this country so comatose as to ignore the grave threat to liberty posed by this unilateral action? Surely the sheer boldness of this action will be enough to jar people awake.

Or are we destined to become human batteries for the government?