Executive Power

Since the economic meltdown started Congress basically gave cart blanch to the executive branch to do what they think necessary to prevent economic collapse.  This is how they were able to take over banks, Chrysler,   G.M. etc.  The result of all this take over is that the government has warrants or preferred ownership in G.M. and several banks.  As the owner the executive has power to set some things like pay scales.  There really is no constitutional basis for this but with the President and Congress from the same party the only group that could stop this unconstitutional use of power by the Executive could only be stopped by the Supreme Court but the court decided not to get involved since the other two branches are working together.  In my opinion, the Executive has more power than any time in my lifetime and this is scary.