Reply #321: Yes

[Time for change]

I think we agree on the fact that the bailout could have and should have been a lot better constructed than it was -- in order to provide benefits to ordinary Americans. That is what my beef against Obama is about on this issue, and that's aside from the question of whether there should have been a bailout -- which I have never argued against (maybe I should have made that clearer).

Our economy is still in terrible shape, and millions of Americans are facing desperate circumstances. More attention to ordinary Americans and less attention to the wishes of Wall Street could have gone a long way towards improving that.

Whether or not the bailout as it actually took place did any good at all is another question. I'm still skeptical about that, but I'm not prepared to argue it or have a definite opinion about it.

Thanks for an interesting and informative discussion.