So he was against it before he was for it huh!? LOL It seems that he can’t make up his mind. If this bailout was not direly needed then the democrats would not no way, no how be backing Bush on it. They are backing him more than the republicans are!

Cindy…Ga.

The bailout, the way it is filled with earmarx to buy votes in the house, has doomed McCain. He had said he would only support a ‘clean’ bill and this is far from that. John, you may as well retire sir.

I think that the bailout plan will not help average citizens because it is only giving money to the men and women on wall street and they are the people that caused the promblem in the first place so why should we give them any more money? By giving them money you are only hurting the average joes of amercain. They are not going to change the way that they do thing by giving them this money it only allows them to keep going the way that they are doing thing now.

Problem is most of us at home have no idea of what is going on. How can you trust someone’s else’s math, when everyone keeps coming up with a different answer. Somewhere along the line, the problem is so complex, the solutions so divers, that the mathematicians can’t be trusted. He can blog tell his heart is content, no one will follow.

Anderson,

Why don’t the FED’s just create an entity and loan them 700 billion to issue new loans to the people can quailfy for them?

Wouldn’t this be better than giving it to wall street incompetents to have a another try at making their billions?

Why buy bad paper to keep defunct companies afloat versus making the capital directly available to the people who want new loans?

700 Billion of fresh lendable capital would clearly unfreeze the finance marlets.

Any money lent on property purchased today would be secure since the property values are now more in line with fundamentals.

Or did I forget that the people making these decisions are closely tied to the CEO’s of the defunct or soon to be defunct companies?

As the market rises and falls dramatically every day, who is making a profit on this?

Do you believe that there are wealthy large investors playing the DOW and other markets for their own benefit. Buying a large number of stocks thus driving the market up 200 points then selling them off to gain a quick profit thereby driving the market down again, only to repeat this process over and over again? Would this be a form of stock market abuse that all of us are paying the price?

It occurs to me, and I’m sure to many others, that if this bailout bill was worth passing it would have/should have passed without a gazillion dollars worth of sweetners added. I think Congress needs to read their job description…it’s to represent the people, not to completely disregard the people’s wishes. I feel like I’ve been patted on the head and told to go sit at the children’s table.

We cannot run our households the way government is being run. Why are we rewarding bad behavior? Maybe we should start voting lots of people out of office. Our government is supposed to be of the people, by the people and for the people. It has become a bunch of greedy power mongers acting in their own self interests.

I am not sure “Main Street Americans” as we are now labeled understand the full definition or ramifications of “Pork Barrel Spending” I find it a disgusting practice which should NOT HAVE BEEN AN OPTION on the bail out!!!!!!!!! As a matter of fact it should be a practice that is stopped immediately in my opinion