The House Bill sucked, but it was better than this piece of trash..

[Virginia Dare]

that the Senate just passed...WTF are they doing? At this point I'm ready to go all Little Orphan Annie and let the whole thing crash and burn to the ground.

The sun'll come out tomorrow?

P.S. According to Jim Cramer after the crash of 1929 it took 56 years for the stock market to get back to it's pre-crash level. Like G.W. Bush I'll be dead.

[dipsydoodle]

1. Bet your bottom dollar

tra la............:)

[daninthemoon]

2. I'm about there with you. Crash the damn mess, and have a do-over.

[ingac70]

3. 56 years to get pre-crash level?

Jim Cramer is a :dunce:



It took a while, but not that long. Did he you mean until 1956?

[SmokingJacket]

6. He must have, because it did. nt

[Virginia Dare]

8. That could have been what he meant,..

or I misunderstood, I agree he's a lunatic I watch him for entertainment value and not advice.

[SteelPenguin]

11. 1954 actually

[On the Road]

12. He May Have Been Factoring Inflation into the Prices

At the height of the market in 1929, valuations were at bubble levels.

[secondwind]

4. A silver lining to all of this is : McCain's "pork" message has bee neutralized.........

I'm sure this was what the Dems in the Senate intended. They rock!

[Virginia Dare]

9. EXCELLENT POINT!!!

I hadn't thought of that, hopefully Biden will hit the Barracuda with that tonight.

[onlyadream]

5. Am I right about this?

Okay, I was not for the bail out, I thought the tax payers would suffer for the greed of Wall St. BUT, according to Wiki, as of 2007, there are about 138 million taxpayers in the United States. So, when I do the math:

$700,000,000/138,000,000 tax payers = $5.07 per tax payer.

Is this right? If so, then why was I thinking it was such a big deal?

[bigscott]

7. you are off by 3 orders of magnitude

700,000,000,000/130,000,000 = $5072.00 per taxpayer

[Spike from MN]

14. Yeah, and that's without interest.

I believe Kucinich said that with interest, it's more like $6900 per taxpayer.

[onlyadream]

16. oops

forgot a few zeros (was too early and I have a head cold - excuses excuses).

[Spike from MN]

17. Too bad the members of Congress didn't suffer from the same

problem. That would have saved us a LOT of money.

[onlyadream]

19. Yeah, now I wish they get bad head colds!!! Really bad.

:(

[Virginia Dare]

10. I agree that it probably needs to be done..

as it is unfortunately the lesser of two probably evils. It's a pretty big deal though, last I heard they predicted it would be $2300.00 for every man woman and child, the tab may have gone up by now though.

[Davis_X_Machina]

13. I noticed your Obama avatar...

...and hope you consider removing it, replacing Obama with McKinney or Nader.

It's the only principled thing to do.

After all, he just voted for the worst bill ever. For the last step in the Fascist takeover. For selling our children and grandchildren in perpetuity down the river.

You have to punish someone for a vote like that, don't you?

Or are we no better that the GOP? We know they'll sacrifice any and every principle to electoral expediency.

Bailout opponents, put your ballots where your mouths are -- or admit there was a case for a pro-bailout vote, from, say, Sen. Obama....

[Virginia Dare]

15. No, I"m not removing my avatar..

and I'm not a bailout opponent. But this thing STINKS.

[pnutbutr]

18. out of curiosity

What parts do you dislike about the senate bill linked below?

http://cryptome.org/bailout-senate.htm