https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/02/28/beware-the-gang-of-six/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 16:25:46 -0400<![CDATA[Imagine for a moment a private financial services firm caught running a ponzi scheme in which public funds were spent on lavish projects for the manager&#8217;s friends.  Astoundingly, instead of incarcerating the perpetrators and returning the money to the investors, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) negotiates with the criminals.  That&#8217;s right.  The SEC collaborates with the criminal executives to force the public to contribute more money to the institution and leave it there longer, in order to rectify the scheme and achieve solvency.  Sounds perverse and preposterous?  Well, some Republican senators are concocting a similar approach to &#8220;solving&#8221; the budget crisis created by the Democrats.]]>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 06:39:11 -0500<![CDATA[Daniel Horowitz]]>https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/02/28/beware-the-gang-of-six-n38112