Crises allow government to expand their influence under the pretense of solving problems.  Now Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson wants the authority to dole out $700 billion dollars as he pleases – an authority which is being called unconstitutional.
I say, rather than that, bring on the crisis.
Recall that we’ve been bailing out people already.  As tends to be with these kinds of problems, the “solutions” have only lead to the need for more, bigger “solutions.”  We bailed out Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, and now we need an extra $700 billion …