You too can get free money from the government.

Like most people who live in DC, Speck generally spends most of his time trying to come up with ways to get the government to give him money. That's why he's been so interested in this whole bailout deal. You know, Congress spending $700 billion to buy up bad assets. All of this got him thinking about other bad assets floating around.

Underperforming assets in need of a bailout.

So here's the plan. Since it's going to take the entire population of southeast Asia buying t-shirts to get the money for Bowden's buyout, we could just ask the government.

Free Money!

The Senate has already passed the latest version. If we hurry, maybe we can slip an amendment or two into the House version. Four million is nothing.