Treasury announced that TARP funds returned to Treasury will be held in a ‘general account”, which leads to the next question which is where that money is going. Are they going to hold it in case there is another banking meltdown? Is Treasury going to use this money when further money is needed for GM? Or, are they going to use it to fund Obama’s health care initiative, or to fund some other Democrat pork-barrel projects?
It needs to be clear to Treasury that these $68 billion aren’t “found” money. It was money that was created and never apportioned to handle what was termed a national emergency after the failures of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. If this response was successful (as it now appears to have been), It is time to pay down our debt and show some fiscal responsibility.
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