| Because, if we don't bail them out now, then honest citizens can't borrow money either. Not for home repairs, not for honest business purposes, not for car payments. The economy collapses.
I didn't get it before. I still resent it now. But I saw this really interesting show on TV last night where an economics columnist sorta dumbed down the whole thing well enough for me to understand it.
Everyone's petrified right now. Hence the Dow Jones tumble. No bailout, and everyone just keeps freefalling. You bailout and, maybe, things level off a little long enough for someone who knows what the hell it is they're doing to come into power and to implement an economic policy that actually sustains itself. __________________  Sunny
"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die." avie by Jessie |