Shall we extoll the virtues of unregulated markets and laissez faire capitalism? I mean, with the exception of companies like Bear Stearns and the like. After all, they provide all the value-added jobs in the economy, don't they? We need to make sure they don't collapse entirely. If they do, the entire economy will collapse . . . won't it?

When George Santayana said "those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it", he may not have been thinking about the average American citizen, but he was - nevertheless - presciently describing the average dolt living in this country right now.

"Mr. Bush singled out the Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., saying that he had shown 'the country and the world that the United States is on top of the situation.'"

Or, in other words, "Good job, Brownie!"

The bush family is scum. They are nothing but thieves stealing from the public trough. They've always been interested in only one thing...enriching themselves at the expense of others.
OF COURSE w would support Wall Street. The ONLY thing he cares about is...the almighty dollar. Oh! But wait!!! The almighty dollar is almost worthless under his watch.

To think there's fools out there who couldn't see through this man for what he really is and actually voted for him. I still find it incomprehensible that anyone could ever trust him with anything, let alone running the country. Thanks a bunch guys.

doesn't anyone else hear the string quartet playing on the promenade deck of this sinking ship?

Most of the, poor, people that vote republican have been trained to despise the word entitlement. To get it across to them what has happened, bailout, they don't quite understand. It needs to be called of Business Entitlements for their heads to wrap around it.

Average Americans go bankrupt while richies are immediately BAILED OUT by Bush with OUR tax dollars.

Bush takes care of his NANNY STATE FOR THE RICH & CORPORATE WELFARE QUEENS.
The CEO will get even richer on middle-income Americans' tax dollars while screwing their taxpayer benefactors.

This free market economy has been proven to be a joke hasn't it. Everyone of you who thought that deregulation is better because private companies will run these industries that were once run by the government more efficiently were wrong. This is what you get corruption and greed. Bear Stearns should have been left to capitulate under its own stupidity, corruption, and greed. They were bought out by JP Morgan anyway. A true free market would have let this happen instead of the US Taxpayer bailing them out.

JUST WAIT UNTIL THESE CORPORATIONS DO AWAY WITH SOCIAL SECURITY AND MANAGE YOUR PERSONAL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS

Are we going to bail out Carlyle Capital this week, too. I read last week that they were expected to collapse this week.

Carlyle Capital? It's a sub of Carlyle Group.

Carlyle Group? Principals include George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, James Baker (Sec of State under Daddy Bush), and other luminaries from the Bush/ Clinton/ Bush days.

Heck of a job, Henry

bush gives middle america the finger every time and the upper 5% the spoils every time.
big oil, big pharma, haliburton, credit card companies, epa clean air standards, cafe standards, bankruptsy rules, wall street, it doesn't matter.

bush is actively trying to kill off middle america.

"What's next," could be all those foreign lenders who are losing money on the dollar giving Bush some ultimatums, and Bush having no choice but to kow tow to their demands. Waging war with foreign money lenders doesn't make you the sharpest tool in the shed.

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The Saving and Loan fiasco, Energy deregulation, Home land Security, and unjust war. The so called "tax and spend democrats" have never spent taxpayer dollars and expanded government like these RNC self proclaimed "risk takers" and wanabe "benevolent dictators." How many more of these RNC presidents will claim they are Lincoln, preach small government and conservativism but really pander to the rich, increasingly burden the poor and middle class, start wars and deregulate whole sectors of the economy for short term financial gain of cronies (even bailing them out with taxpayer dollars) at the expense of working people. The RNC is crucifying democracy and the United States of America. The Republican party has succumbed to the greedy arrogant idiots Eisenhower warned us about.
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And he better make sure he keeps the American citizens on the bottom of the situation.

Bush made sure there were no controls over predatory lenders. Alan Greenspan, in addition, played like Sergeant Schultz in the TV series, Hogan's Heros, who kept repeating: "I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!" Bush failed, early on, to pop the bubble despite the warnings. Bush simply let it build much like he ignored the dangerous implications of some 40 presidential briefings concerning Osama bin Laden before 9/11.

Sorry I am not going to make a decision until and unless Limbaugh tells me what to do and what to think. He said Hussein Obama is the cause of all of these economic woes and but for his candidacy this economy would be doing alright. Lambaugh believes that because of all the money Hussein Obama raised in his campaign, it has caused the stock market to crash, banks to stumble, the dollar to fall, the price of oil to rise and confidence in the U.S. to lessen, for the flu virus to spread, for the sub-prime disaster all because people took their hard earned income to send in money to Obama's campaign.

Further Limbaugh believes that because Obama did not properly hold his hand above his heart when singing the national anthem, it has caused retribution from the most high powers that is bringing these maladies to the United States. Additionally Farraro has indicated that none of this would have happened but for Obama being black!!!

Limbaugh's prescription for the economic woes and Farraro's prescription to these economic problems: FIND SOMEONE BLACK TO BLAME! and politically lynch them. After this happens everything will become better.