From Each According…

The charade continues in Washington, as poorly run lending institutions, poorly run car companies and poorly run state and city governments demand that well-run lending institutions, car companies and state and city governments bail them out.

 

All of this they demand from politicians who, individually could not run a profitable bodega, but who collectively presume to take from Wells Fargo to give to AIG, take Toyota workers to give to Chevrolet workers, take from West Virginia to give to California. Punish the successful to subsidize the weak and unsuccessful.

 

Modern America.  James Madison would rotate rapidly in his shroud.

 

James Madison, primary author the Constitution penned about a $15,000 appropriation for French refugees: “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”