Now, assuming that we decide that we can't afford to let all these financial institutions fail, and assuming we decide it's worth spending several hundred billion dollars on it right now - rather than argue the merit of those two points, let's take them as a given - assuming all of that... why would Congress even consider using that money to bail out the financial institutions directly?????
Mercy's sake, you don't really need to ask that question, do you? We've had a kleptocratic, carpetbagger government in power for eight years. They've been utterly shameless in their use of their power to line their own pockets and the pockets of their cronies and ass-lickers. Why, when the opportunity presents itself, would they not choose the option that channels still more rewards to the wealthy?
You know that you and I have disagreed violently in the past about whether the answer to this country's real problems lie in a policy solution (and I ain't no libertarian, god forbid). In cases like this, though, where the people are being coerced to contribute to a policy solution whether they want one or not, we've got an obligation to bitch up a storm about the form that that policy solution takes. In fact, I tried to do just that thing a week ago when the AIG bullshit went down, only to find invalid email addresses for both John Kerry and John Olver. Perhaps your links will work better.
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Now, assuming that we decide that we can't afford to let all these financial institutions fail, and assuming we decide it's worth spending several hundred billion dollars on it right now - rather than argue the merit of those two points, let's take them as a given - assuming all of that... why would Congress even consider using that money to bail out the financial institutions directly?????
Mercy's sake, you don't really need to ask that question, do you? We've had a kleptocratic, carpetbagger government in power for eight years. They've been utterly shameless in their use of their power to line their own pockets and the pockets of their cronies and ass-lickers. Why, when the opportunity presents itself, would they not choose the option that channels still more rewards to the wealthy?
You know that you and I have disagreed violently in the past about whether the answer to this country's real problems lie in a policy solution (and I ain't no libertarian, god forbid). In cases like this, though, where the people are being coerced to contribute to a policy solution whether they want one or not, we've got an obligation to bitch up a storm about the form that that policy solution takes. In fact, I tried to do just that thing a week ago when the AIG bullshit went down, only to find invalid email addresses for both John Kerry and John Olver. Perhaps your links will work better.