So, you're saying you want 700 billion dollars with no strings attached, by Friday.

[dave123williams]

Seven hundred billion, folks. The free marketers are now officially out of hot air. Make no mistake; they're asking us to nationalize the failures of their idiotic philosophy. They're asking for a government handout, and it's really rather a large one. They want to move the burden from Wall Street, to your living room, and they're saying they want the money....by Friday.

It's like dealing with a bunch of degenerate gamblers. Exactly like that, actually.

I say let 'em crash, and we keep the 700 billion. Pigs get fat, and hogs get slaughtered. That's the free market. This crisis is a real market condition, and now's the time to prove, if you're a Republican, that you really do believe in the free market. Perhaps it's time for the guys who work on Wall Street (almost entirely GOP) to stand up for their high-minded philosophy that now runs the risk of being seen as merely unfettered greed coupled with a complete unwillingness to own up to personal responsibility.

Maybe they'll have to give up their mansions in Greenwich and Stanford, lose a trophy wife, sell the Ferrari f450cs, give up cocaine, etc.

Boo. Fucking. Hoo.

[phantom power]

1. You know what I'd pay to see...

Paulsen hitting up a couple thousand PayDay loan shops.

[Real_Sh1t]

10. ..

lol

[texastoast]

2. I say let them crash--no place for bailouts in capitalism

Otherwise, it is socialism. Let them drink that. Let them fucking fail.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. I would like to win Lotto this Friday...no strings attached.

:silly:

[ixion]

4. allowing them to fail would be the responsible thing to do

they played the game and screwed the pooch, so they lose their business. that's the way it works... or the wy it's supposed to work.

[TwilightGardener]

5. And don't you dare tell them how much compensation those CEO's can

receive out of that 700 billion, or they'll take their ball (WHAT ball? It's a BAILOUT!) and go home.

[MUAD_DIB]

6. You don't have to let them crash, but you also don't need to

give them the keys to the candy store. I hope that congress personally steam roll Bush's nuts flat and do the right thing by taking tough action and enacting severe regulations against the financial sector.

[Ganja Ninja]

7. Hey! Hand it over with a smile and make it snappy!

Gimee Gimee Gimee! :eyes:

[Gin]

8. would this bailout work like a credit line with a 70b limit???

g

[dave123williams]

11. Apparently more like a cash pool from which Feds can decide what they will, or won't buy.

Then, those securities get auctioned to the highest bidder.

[Ganja Ninja]

14. It sounds to me like they want it all in unmarked bills. n/t

[louis-t]

9. Nothing like having a gun put to our heads.

[dave123williams]

12. Does this remind anybody of how they sold us on Iraq?

[The Blue Flower]

15. EXACTLY

Same playbook.

[bdamomma]

13. no strings attached huh?

no oversight, just give them the money huh? it doesn't work like that. ENOUGH.