Pure and simple: Do you support the proposed bailout?

[Newsjock]

Poll question: Pure and simple: Do you support the proposed bailout?

No grandstanding, no speechifying, just a simple question with a simple answer.

[jpgray]

1. I don't feel I understand the issue well enough, despite trying for several days

The political side I understand, but as to whether I support it unabashedly on its merits, I have to say I don't really think so.

[blonndee]

2. I don't know.

I guess something has to be done, practically, but ideologically it disgusts me. Where's the working class "bailout"? What have they done for ME, lately?

[RoyGBiv]

3. Yes ...

What I read today I support as the better choice of a lot of bad choices.

[scarletwoman]

4. Kick (nt)

[lostnotforgotten]

5. No - See A Rational Plan From Thom Hartmann

www.huffingtonpost.com/thom-hartmann/how-wall-street-can-bail_b_129657.html

[neverforget]

6. No. This will not be the only bailout as we are just at the beginning

of this disaster. All this is doing is kicking the can down the road. Sooner or later, we are going to have to pay the piper for living on credit for decades.

I find it ironic that debt has caused this crisis while we borrow $700 billion to "fix" it. We. are. fucked.

[New Dawn]

7. No bailouts for billionaires.

The richest 15% already own 90% of the wealth - and they control the government and the mass media. They do not need a bailout.

[MercutioATC]

8. No, but for a different reason than most.

Congress may have added over 100 pages, but this is still Bush and Paulson's plan. Nobody has presented any alternatives.

I don't think it's realistic to expect that Bush and Paulson selflessly stumbled upon the best plan for America...yet that's still the only plan we're considering. The focus of the last 9 days has been to alter their plan, not find the best solution to the problem.

This legislation needs floor time. It needs to be debated. Congress should be actively seeking solutions, not trying to ram an unresearched and untested $700B hail mary down the nation's throat.

[Canuckistanian]

9. No. There are alternatives.

Throwing money at the same people who caused the problem solves nothing.

[jonnyblitz]

10. NO. nt

[Booster]

11. With this bailout I guess we get a lot of homes that have been

foreclosed, but the bailout they gave the auto giants, what do we get - used cars? I don't support it because I don't see an end to all of this. Personally I think the neocons are completing their agenda before January - that agenda being to bankrupt the country. They are doing a fabulous job.

[scarletwoman]

15. No, we DON'T get any homes. We just get a "promise" that we might get paid back someday, if the

holders of the mortgages manage to collect something on them someday.

All we get is a bigger budget deficit and our tax money moved into the pockets of the bankers that screwed up in the first place.

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[FreakinDJ]

12. Repeatedly Bailing Out our economy means its Structuraly Flawed

Read my Sig Line for more information

[Annoyinglysmart]

13. I'm not convinced it was needed

The reassurances come from the same people who invented the Iraq war fraudulent claims: Rich white Republicans.

[scarletwoman]

14. Another kick. (nt)

[scarletwoman]

16. Kicking again for a bigger sample. (nt)

[tama]

17. so far

Slavery 21%, liberty 79%.

[ThePowerofWill]

18. No. /nt/

[Newsjock]

19. Kick for the morning crowd

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[bdamomma]

20. the whole plan sounds very risky to me.

I just do not want to see the Dems thrown off the cliff for this. Didn't they make provisions from 3 pages to 110 pages, with protections for us, or do I have this wrong? Nancy Pelosi looks like crap too.

[bean fidhleir]

21. No. We should protect the innocent from harm (those who were forced to take the risks without

being offered any of the rewards - i.e., the low-level employees and those whose pension plans invested in the bum securities) but the companies and their officers and owners should experience the downside of capitalism.

The usual "pocket the profits, socialize the risks" shouldn't be allowed ever again.