September 22, 2008 (LPAC)--As Treasury Secretary and would-be financial dictator Henry Paulson expands his unlimited bailout, the pigs are moving to secure their place at the growing trough. Financial firms of all stripes are demanding to be included, by having the government expand the types of "assets" that it will buy, while others are lobbying for a piece of the action managing all this government-owned crap. Paulson has already expanded his proposal from buying mortgages and mortgage-related securities into the right to buy "any other financial instrument"--a loophole big enough to cover nearly anything--and expanding the program to include foreign institutions, giving him carte blanche to do virtually anything he desires. The big trade groups, like the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association and the Financial Services Roundtable, and the hedge and private equity funds, are all lobbying for their own pieces of the action.

This is a truly disgusting spectacle. The people who created this mess, are now demanding that they not only be bailed out, but that they turn a profit on the bailout itself. This is beyond greed, and far into criminal insanity. These piggies care neither for their country nor its people, but only for themselves, and like a plague of locusts will destroy anything in their path until they are stopped. As Lyndon LaRouche said, Paulson's giant swindle is "tantamount to treason" and must be stopped, before it destroys the United States.