"Bush Treasury Dept. Redacts More Bailout Contracts."

"Essentially, Liesman delivers the Treasury Department talking points, saying that it's acceptable for the government to hide the amounts that taxpayers will be forced to pay these well-connected execs and fat cats - and that this information will come out at some point in the future anyway. Ratigan, however, vehemently agreed with me that these kinds of redactions are absolutely outrageous, both substantively in terms of how they keep taxpayers in the dark, and psychologically in terms of how the behavior helps intensify the public's already seething anger about the bailout."

And yet they don't want to bailout the auto companies, a move which would preserve millions of jobs. The reason is that they are "inefficient".

How "efficient" have the hedge funds been? How valuable have the folks who will shovel in more billions been?

It just seems that Conservatives love and reward a rich crook, hate and penalize a working person. At least that's how they act.

Arf