I may be against the bailouts that we have now, and no bailouts would be better then what we have now, but I think there is still a middle ground that would be the best (even if that is impractical to hope for).

During this rescession there is large amounts of pessimism in the market. That means that even the good solvent companies may be facing illogical financial strain, when the companies are actually helpful. I would support only bailing out those few good companies that are going down, while all of the other weak companies should be let to die off.

Bailouts would actually be helpful if there was large amounts of oversight and statistics before any conclusion is reached. However, since there is bailouts for everything, the most that we can hope for is for all of them to stop.

They can't begin to cover the losses and the ones losing would be millions of Americans who have been saving their entire lives. You can't tell millions of Americans sorry, you no longer have that 401k with $150,000 in it you were planning on retiring on, you are broke.

I sure as hell don't like the bailout either but without it we would surely be headed for a massive depression. There would more than likely be a run on the banks and they would begin failing as a result of it. there is one thing both democrats and republicans agree on and that is a bailout is mandatory.

Any mortgage or investment firm that is so important to our economy that our govt would be forced to bail them out should they fail, must be regulated to prevent financially unsound practices from taking place to begin with.

In the 20-30 yrs McCain has been in the senate he has always been a strong proponent of deregulation, until the other day.

Those multi-million dollar bonuses would not begin to cover the amount needed. Why do you think the bailouts are in the hundreds of billions of dollars? So take the 20, 30 or 40 million dollar bonus and give it to those who have lost everything, they would be lucky to get a few pennies on the dollar. I don't think you have any idea the scope of the problem.

I suggest you not vote for McCain.

As a native Arizonan very familiar with McCain's arrogant, ineffective leadership, you may take it to the back I will not vote for McCain.

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An employee gets trampled to death by a frenzied, greedy mob at a Walmart sale, and customers actually complained when the store closed. Yet, I'm the bad guy for suggesting policies that assume people act like retarded herd animals that need government nannying and control....

Anything coming from Bernie Sanders is something I will always ignore. Does he call for selling the share in these companies or holding to them looking for a long term control of these companies as his socialist ideology teaches.

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"If you are looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror"- V

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

come on you know you wanna play football..

Beagán agus a rá go maith.

Economic Left/Right: 3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87

You are going to ask 295 million Americans to pay for 5 million folks who made a bad choice. That's still a bailout.

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Pioneers are walking all around singing songs about Lenin and they should be shot for it.

Handlebars

"If you are looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror"- V

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

come on you know you wanna play football..

Beagán agus a rá go maith.

Economic Left/Right: 3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87

i was being semi-facetious. however, bush last night kept talking the bad debt, mortgages etc. so we pay wall st, ad in 6 months are back to the same situation. pay off the bad debt, and its gone

of course that amount of money would give each and every american $2300 for a health care for a year. and would fix a lot of infrastructure issues