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Andrew Villeneuve: a Bailout Chain Letter
This "chain letter" landed in my inbox this morning, but oddly enough, it isn't from a
guy who claims to be in
“Dear
American, I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship
with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.
I am Ministry of the Treasury of the
I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement
as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may know him as the
leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. This
transaction is 100% safe.
This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds as
quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of
our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family
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will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.
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wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission for this
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Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson”
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Bill Dubay on Unconstitutional Senate Tax Bill
How far we have come from paying any regard to the U.S. Constitution.
Regardless of the merits or shortcomings of the Senate tax bill (Wednesday
editorial "Tax measure: follow the Senate"), the very first sentence
of Article I, Section 7 of our ruling document reads, "All bills for
raising revenues shall originate in the House of Representatives ...."
I guess George W. Bush's statement about no