(h/t Huffington Post)
I hate to link to The New York Post but oh well.
To see Neel Kashkari field questions from a crowded room, one might think he’s still being paid by Goldman Sachs rather than American taxpayers.
The interim assistant secretary of the Treasury for financial stabilization yesterday had a tone of impatience during a question-and-answer session, leaving some attendees feeling cheated.
He tersely called the additional cash piped to AIG a “one-off event.” Well, glad to have that cleared up!
I hope more news organizations follow Bloomberg’s action:
Meanwhile, Bloomberg News sued the Federal Reserve for information under the US Freedom of Information Act, claiming the Fed refuses to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans as well as the troubled assets the bank is accepting as collateral.
I’ll be damned if I’m going to speculate about a yet-again secretive series of actions using our taxpayer money. The issue here is about transparency — we shouldn’t have to run around like Nancy Drew finding out what should be neither a secret nor a mystery.
We’ve lived for 8 years under the most secretive misAdministration in my lifetime. Clearly our corporations and other big bidness has been secretive as well, and it’s become a national sickness, imo.
Enough already. Time to let the sunshine in … all the way in.