Fallout: Bailing Out The $700 billion man

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/04/AR2009120402016.html?hpid%3Dartslot⊂=AR

:wtf: :wow:

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It was October 2008 when Hank Paulson announced that the government rescue operation, the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), would be run by his aide, Neel Kashkari. The choice was met with considerable surprise. Who was Neel Kashkari? He was too young, too inexperienced and had ties to Wall Street, detractors said. To some, the appointment seemed all wrong. Critics described Paulson as a "Dr. Evil" figure who brainwashed Congress into giving him unprecedented financial authority so that Kashkari, his "Mini-Me," could distribute it to Wall Street friends.

Overnight, Kashkari became the face of the biggest, and one of the most controversial, market interventions in American history. Even he questioned their chances of success.

The Friday evening he was named, he slumped over a bowl of chips in Bethesda with a childhood friend. He held his head in hands and said: "Dude, tell me something funny."

"Man, what's going on, Neel?"

"I've been tapped to put TARP together. I gotta set up these seven teams and build this thing from scratch -- by Monday morning."

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More revealing details of the Bush Crime Family's Biggest Single Robbery In Human History @ link.

[willing dwarf]

1. Article too annoying!

Yeah, I started to read the article but it got me too annoyed. So that guy is trying to kick his multi billion $ rush by going and living with nothing in Northern California, chopping wood and playing house? Well maybe he should have thought of the pain and injury he was going to do to his soul before he handed it over to the republicans. You can't play with poison and not get sick.

So now he has his romantic dream of living a simple life away from the craziness. That's nice. But he's doing it with a big safety net underneath him. The majority of people in this world are playing house in less favorable circumstances, and they have no safety net under them. They don't whine or moan into their bowl of chips, because they have no bowl of chips. And if they were to start moaning they'd never stop. There's too much worry and hardship to even begin...

I'm sure Mr. Kashkari will emerge from the woods with his tidy story to tell of playing with billions, renouncing it all and having written the book of his dreams....

And on top of it al, I find his taste in furniture really unappealing. Those shots of the inside of the little cottage looked like a vacation nightmare to me. No soul. No intimacy...bleah.

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2. It looks like an outhouse.

Turning over $700 billion to this idiot is unbelievable.