domain for these things. and we have will herd, congressman who has a biggest share of land on the border fighting for this. but congress doesn t do anything. justin amash introduced a bill to stop the president from using eminent domain to seize private property on the border. is that bill going to get introduced on the floor? no, it s not because the legislative branch doesn t thwart the president at any step, at any step at all, it s terrified of it. and we have a succession of presidents who are diverting money all the time. bush did this, obama did this too. when congress doesn t do what they want, whether it s bailing out the auto kpds or whatever, they say okay, you didn t pass it but we re going to divert tarp money in the is how we do in a system where all of the por is going to the executive branch and everything depends on who wins it and they get to do what they want. this is a bad kind of pathology we re living through. you could make the argument that congress has been
and they ll be treated like tiny little community banks for purposes of oversight. now, those 25 banks, they re between $50 billion and $250 billion in assets. collectively, they set down about $50 billion in tarp money. they helped crash the economy and nobody went to jail. just to draw that home a little bit more, you remember country wide, they earn putting out at their pique, one in every five mortgages across america and you remember what those mortgages were like. they were like grinades, they rolled into american homes. and ultimately blue up the economy. how big was countrywide at its pique when it was doing this? about $199 billion. so here s the deal, what this
of tarp money that she distributed to one of her crony banking projects. so, look, what i have to say about this and i am somebody who was an intern on capitol hill some 25, almost 30 years ago now, god, do i feel old, all right. and the fact that you have the swamp being exposed now as a place where largely a lot of these democratic leaders were not policing themselves. shows you that when they blame republicans for war on women, what this really was about was psychological projection. in other words, them projecting their own pathologies within these swamps whether we are talking about washington or hollywood or academia, when they themselves are guilty of so much this behavior and unleashing this culture of misogyny on america. brian: do you think roy moore should get a pass because conyers is getting investigation and al franken has got an apology out there? should we just say everyone
over again for our kids, never had the experience of having to say, oh, gee, i need that prescription, but i don t have the money for it so i won t buy it or have had to get all of our health care through hospital emergency rooms. the notion that it s somehow an outrage that the government which already and rightly provides health insurance, the rest of america that can t afford health insurance to get everybody covered, the notion that that s an awful and evil thing that threatens socialism, that s a terrible idea. cruz s spokesman says being on his wife s plan means it s no cost to taxpayers. but between the government subsidies for employer-sponsored insurance and goldman sachs getting $10 billion in t.a.r.p. money, aren t we still paying for cruz s insurance in a round-about way? anybody who has employer provided health insurance does benefit from a big tax break.
because they tried to defy the government. having to take the tarp money. they didn t want to do it. they are being punished for it. so, jamie dimon is punished. he made it clear he did not like tarp money. he made it clear he was opposed to the president now. he is paying the price for it. jp morgan was the best run bank out there, one of the best run banks out there with a couple of others like wells fargo. they are getting big punishment. by the way, when the federal reserve is picking up the point out there, made the money cheap, the housing prices went up. everyone thought it was a natural law of the universe. prices would keep going up. if a borrower defaulted it didn t matter. the asset would be better than money good. david: last word from steve forbes. both parties continue the power struggle in washington this weekend, a new poll showing a record number of americans think the government has too much power. period. the cashin in crew how we claim the power back coming up.