Why 700 Billion?
Why give Bush (Mr. 19%) and McCain another legislative victory?
Why handicap the policies and priorities of an Obama administration?
Are we going to ask questions about this "crisis" now or are we going to ask the tough but necessary questions later.
I disagree there is a crisis that is so imminent and so looming that Congress cannot wait a few weeks, a few months to get our economy back on track the right way - without raising the national debt to a point not seen since shortly after WWII.
I wrote to my Congresscritters to think about the future - and not the future that President Bush is depicting. It was his administration that caused this economic downturn, and his mistakes should not hamper the ability of a Democratic President to manage the economy in a way that protects the American worker and the American taxpayer.
It is just frustrating to me to see my Democratic Congress give in, yet again to Mr. 19%. I don't know what to say - or what they are thinking. The more I hear about the bailout plan the more I dislike it. The American public will get little - or nothing out of the deal. No more regulations, no more oversight, no real reform, and no real guarantee that the speculators, now free from these bad deals, won't speculate again.
It is also irritating that we can bail out the free market, but we cannot pay for universal health care - something that will actually have an impact on my budget. Instead, I will, and my kids will have to pay for the mistakes of a handful of investment bankers and a President who fell asleep at his desk.
NT.