Thank you Hank Paulson, Tim Geithner, and Ben Bernanke – from the bottom of Warren Buffett’s heart…

The U.S. government, responding to a critical need to rescue the Wall Street financial sector and resuscitate the economy during the 2008-09 financial crisis, funneled trillions of dollars in direct cash transfers, emergency loans, credit guarantees, and balance-sheet-clearing toxic mortgage debt purchases – to many of America’s premier financial corporations.

Billionaire Warren Buffett lobbied hard for the massive bailouts, and with good reason. At least eight of these companies receiving billions of dollars of taxpayer bailouts were owned by Mr. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway.

Buffett’s Betrayal: Rolfe Winkler | Reuters  / Aug 4, 2009

Excerpts:                                                                                                                                 A good chunk of his [Warren Buffett’s] fortune is dependent on taxpayer largess. Were it not for government bailouts, for which Buffett lobbied hard, many of his company’s stock holdings would have been wiped out.

Berkshire Hathaway, in which Buffett owns 27 percent, according to a recent proxy filing, has more than $26 billion invested in eight financial companies that have received bailout money. The TARP at one point had nearly $100 billion invested in these companies and, according to new data released by Thomson Reuters, FDIC backs more than $130 billion of their debt.

To put that in perspective, 75 percent of the debt these companies have issued since late November has come with a federal guarantee.

Without FDIC’s debt guarantee program, even impregnable Goldman would have collapsed.

And this excludes the emergency, opaque lending facilities from the Federal Reserve that also helped rescue the big banks. Without all these bailouts, the financial system would have been forced to recapitalize itself.

Banks that couldn’t finance their balance sheets would have sold toxic assets at market prices, and the losses would have wiped out their shareholder’s equity. With $7 billion at stake, Buffett is one of the biggest of these shareholders.

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Meanwhile, back at the ranch in 2015… the country’s second richest man is back, ‘sticking it to’ the very people whose billions of dollars bailed him out seven short years ago – U.S. taxpayers.

Warren Buffett, Slumlord – Predatory Loans, Kickbacks & Preying On The Poor   ZeroHedge /  04/06/2015                                                                                           Excerpts:

Buffett’s mobile-home empire promises low-income Americans the dream of homeownership. But Clayton [controlled by America’s second richest man – billionaire Warren Buffet] relies on predatory sales practices, exorbitant fees, and interest rates that can exceed 15 percent, trapping many buyers in loans they can’t afford and in homes that are almost impossible to sell or refinance, an investigation by The Seattle Times and Center for Public Integrity has found.

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U.S. citizens deserve nothing less than the same access to liquidity that was granted to wealthy elites during the Wall Street bailout.

The Leviticus 25 Plan 2015 –  $70,000 per U.S. citizen                                                    The Leviticus 25 Plan 2015 (864)