…are you equally mad that the democrats want to add another 1 trillion dollars of new taxes over the next two years if Obama is elected?
You should be, because that is as big of a hit to our economy as the Wall Street bailout.
Very mad!!!

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I know it was necessary, but I dont like the whole situation. We are gonna keep giving money to the rich and risky investors until there is nothing left. In your opinion is the bailout plan good or bad. And why do you think this? What would have happened if the feds didn’t do it??
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SO…you are crying RACISM for being given a chance to own a home and FAILING because you did not pay your bills? How is this apartheid?
This all goes back to being treated EQUALLY. It is not MY fault that you chose to buy something you could not afford. Whites do it too. [...]

The Wall Street Journal had one fact correct regarding Wall Street’s accelerating collapse when on September 20th they wrote: When government officials surveyed the failing American financial system this week, they didn’t see only a collapsed investment bank or the surrender of a giant insurance firm. They saw the circulatory system of the U.S. economy—credit [...]

fool me once; FOOL WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN!
Seriously congratualtions to all of us in the middle class that at least stopped the gov’t from handing $700B to Hank Paulson to do with as he sees fit, without reveiw from and politician or court. Bush tried his fear mongering again to ram this down our [...]

I heard that ” home rescue plan” is the new terminology to bail out banks and execs who made bad loans. From what I understand people still make payments so how is it a benefit to the homeowner besides being trapped in a mortgage for an overvalued piece of property.
If we had a depression maybe [...]

Be honest!
I am a 26 year old mother of two. I have a college degree and feel that I am up to date with politics and things that go on in the world..but I can honestly say I don’t get this bail out! What is it all about?

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After all, it’s there mismanagement that has got them in this much trouble. If they’re going to bailed out, then we get just throw money at the same idiots who got them here.
Personally, I rather see them all fail and be bought up by other companies. I would feel bad about the people who work [...]

In other words; is it the fault of the banks selling people unsuitable mortgages and loans that they could not afford, or is it the fault of lower income / unemployed people grabbing what they could at the given opportunity and then telling the banks that they could not repay?
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And what about the $2 trillion in credit injections that water down the vaule of all outstanding dollars?

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