It’s fun to watch the Capitol Hill Madoff hearings. Among the hungover public boobs called congressmen, stumbling over rewritten NY Times articles called statements (that they were just handed by their staff), was the one person of principle, speaking without notes and with the passion of justice: Ron Paul.

My favorite witness is Allan Goldstein, a wealthy New Yorker who claims he lost $4 million with Madoff, and wants poorer people taxed to bail him out. But this elite pan-handler had an account for 21 years with Madoff, meaning that he had huge alleged returns, money actually stolen from other victims. So why, even if he is to be bailed out, should he be reminbursed for illusory profits? By the way, he has a $5,900 mortgage payment. Don’t you want to give him what little savings you have left?