From Robert Greenwood at Salon.com comes a top ten list of what’s wrong with the bailout. Number 10 on the list:
Whenever you think that the Government has done things so extreme that it can’t top itself — torture, theories of presidential lawbreaking, a six-year war justified by blatantly false pretenses — it always tops itself. On top of the massive debt under which the country was already drowning, another $700
billion is now being added in order to save the nation’s richest individuals from the consequences of their own recklessness, allowing many of them not only to remain enriched, but become further enriched, all while basically ensuring that the Government is incapable of spending any money for years, if not longer, on programs designed to improve the lives of the vast, vast majority of its citizens — the same citizens who are forced to fund this bail-out. That seems hard to top, but the only thing certain is that they will
find a way to do so.
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