Can I shoot them now?

[jhetley]

WASHINGTON (AP) - The government has abandoned the original centerpiece of its $700 billion rescue effort for the financial system and will not use the money to purchase troubled bank assets.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20081112/D94DHGA00.html

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Only if you're willing to eat them.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Eeeuw.

Unclean!

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Can't I just leave the meat for the coyotes and take the heads?

[summers-place.livejournal.com]

Actually, isn't this rather changing things after the fact? Seems to me that if they want to change the way they implement the bailout, the new plan ought to have to be approved by Congress, too. Or am I missing something?

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

That, more or less, was the basis of my intemperate question . . .

Or, in the retail trade, "Bait and Switch" marketing is against the law.