Video: Obama in '08 promising "every penny" of TARP would go back to taxpayers

Breitbart TV and Naked Emperor News captures the expiration date of another Barack Obama pledge, this time on the repayment of TARP funds. In October 2008, then-Senator Obama promised that TARP funds wouldn’t just disappear, but that “every penny” would get returned to the taxpayers. He didn’t want to give President Bush a “blank check.” However, fourteen months later, Obama didn’t mind inheriting one (via Newsalert):

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Once government starts confiscating funds, it doesn’t return them unless forced to do so. What’s laughable about this is not so much the reversal on repayment — did anyone really expect the government to honor its word? — but the description of TARP by Obama. It was nothing but free money to the banks (well, almost free) and a blank check for the White House.  And when Obama took office, he made it even more so rather than fixing the problem.

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