Look Where Our Taxpayer Money Went!

Remember TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program)? That was the program that was going to stop the recession and make sure unemployment stayed manageable. It did neither and eventually resulted in $426.4 billion of taxpayer money being invested to ‘purchase troubled assets.’

Gateway Pundit posted an article yesterday featuring some information posted by Guccifer2 that he has acquired through his computer hacking. Regardless of how you feel about computer hacking, this is information that should be available to the American public:

tarppaymentsThe third column in this chart is donations that companies who received TARP money made to various candidates and party committees. I really think we need a law that says any company or entity that receives government money should not be able to make campaign contributions. The amount of money spent on TARP should have been given to American taxpayers. I suspect that would have done a much better job of stimulating the economy.