Now that the rich have all cut and run, there's no mention about what federal programs will get cut to pay for this bailout. I guess we'll just add $600,000,000,000 to our $9.7 trillion dollar national debt - which already works out to be more than $31,000 per person. Not much if you're a millionaire, but I believe it's slightly more or less than Idaho's average annual wage and Otter's answer to that is use our taxpayer dollars to recruit more skilled workers to Idaho instead of growing our own.

Look what the Bush and the current Republicans have done to us on their way out and tell me McCain and Palin are going to change things. I'm sorry, but I don't think McCain has what it takes - or the will - to fix this.

Shame on Bush. He saddles our taxpayers with needless wars, expects us to bail out bankers,and thinks we should vote GOP.

Forget it.

all ought to be branded with a big R on their forehead and them put in a refugee camp at camp bush in Texass or perhaps in Wyoming on chenney's spread where they could all go duck hunting.

With all of this going on, why do the polls show McSame slightly ahead?
Do we not trust the polls? or are there really that many blind, dumb, ignorant voters who would put McSame in charge?

....I think it depends of which publication or which channel and what money runs it......Wall Street Journal, very much Republican, New York Times, more Democratic.
Some appear to be neutral....and then we all know about FOX...............geeesh!!!!!!!

This makes me so angry- I am very much for the free market, but this neocon version of capitalism where rewards are privatized and risk is socialized makes me sick. First Wall Street, now this. What's next? The auto makers?

While all the knee-jerk Bush bashers are having a field day with this, they we would pee themselves with joy if a Dem controlled government made this move. It's the Dems dream to have such control over part of the economy. Anyways, if you want to place blame, start with FDR- he is the one who set up this program in 1938.

And it's all being financed off the backs of the "slave" class... Middle-class Americans. Bailout by the PRIVATE Federal Reserve.

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." -Thomas Jefferson

What Bush did is nothing other than using our taxes to bail out big business. This should be considered criminal.