5 Reasons the House Passed the Bailout Bill

America blows

America is not communist yet, it's at the intermediatte socialism stage. That's the problem with America. Everyone wants to be the wealthy as possible and would do many things for finacial freedom, but take offense at the lifestyle of the supremely wealthy and are suprised that there are criminals at the elite stage ifinitly worse than any gang or smalltime criminal enterprise.

Some people make it out of their class (poor middle rich)in their life but most don't. Why are people surprised by the Wall Street CEOS, their "compenstations" and the general results of a capitalist society? The elite own the poor. ALl you can do is try to get to the elite level. That, or vote for Communism on 08.

People want everything to be equal unless it means they can't have more than the other guy or must have less than yet another

Jared of @ Oct 06, 2008 19:28:57 PM

bailout

I think that we should take a look at congress and the senators that have been in office for fifty years or so. We need a change altogether. We need to take a look at their records and come election time, donot vote them in. We're not educated enough in these matters. We need to look online. I feel that the senators are in office too long. We need to change the numbers of years that they may be in office altogether. The only way for change is by voting them out!!!

Mary of IL @ Oct 05, 2008 23:48:29 PM

Bad bailout!!!

What ever happened to free market? What ever happened to personal responsibility? What ever happened to punishing the criminals? Should Henry Paulson and his buddies in Washington and on Wall Street be seen as criminals? Even my teenage kids see the folly in this buying bad debt expecting it to be a good investment.

Why should Paulson be granted complete authority without being answering to anyone to spend my children and their children's future income?

The average American will vote against those supporting this foolish bill.

Thanks - Mark

Mark of NH @ Oct 04, 2008 12:21:43 PM

bail out

there is only one way to take care of this. IN NOVEMBER VOTE THE BUMS OUT THAT VOTED YES ON THIS BAIL OUT! thats what i'm gona do.

matt of IN @ Oct 04, 2008 12:01:06 PM

bail out

there is one way to take care of this, VOTE THE BUMS OUT THAT VOTED FOR THIS BILL! thats what im gona do.

mm of IN @ Oct 04, 2008 11:56:01 AM

FDIC Coverage

Please advise me if the House passed an increase in the DFIC Coverage of Savings , etc. accounts from $100,000.00 to $250,000 as was previously the covered offered by FDIC. I was told that the House was going to contemplate increasing the coverage so people didn't have to place money in so many different banks to cover their savings. I certainly hope that it was one of the things that the Government took into consideration and passed for the everyday american among other important financial problems.

Cheryl Metz of FL @ Oct 04, 2008 11:53:16 AM

Open letter to our young people

We, who are your elders, owe you the deepest apology, an apology because we, the Vietnam War generation, should have known better. We, the civil rights generation, should have known better. We, the generation who paid back the last huge American deficit, should have known better. We, the children of the children of the Great Depression, should have known better. The fact is, we do know better, but we have refused to act upon our knowledge and our experience.

We owe you an apology for the legacy of a $500 billion national deficit that could reach $5 trillion over the next decade. We are living above our means and we have blown our household's budget by a staggering amount. We have allowed this to occur even though we know we can't have tax cuts and war and decreasing employment without ultimately paying a high cost.

We are leaving you a national deficit that, almost all economists agree, means that you, our children and grandchildren, will inherit higher interest rates and slower economic growth. A national deficit that will make you vulnerable to those nations who are lending our government the money it needs right now by buying its bonds. A national deficit that will almost surely mean that you will pay more for the goods you import in the future at the same time that we just no longer manufacture many of these products ourselves. A national deficit that almost surely will mean you will live with rising inflation, which will not bode well for you. Because of our foolishness, you may well be the first generation of Americans in our country's history to have a lower standard of living than your parents.

We owe you an apology for leaving you a less safe world, a world where war is seen as the only solution to conflict. We owe you an apology for starting a 21st century precedent of the pre-emptive strike. We owe you an apology for the increase in small arms manufactured and distributed throughout the world and for refusing to end the production of land mines. We owe you an apology for allowing religious fundamentalism of all religions to make your world less secure.

We owe you an apology for sending you, a new generation of young men and young women, into war. We know some will be killed and others will be wounded. We know that none of them will ever be the same, after having seen first-hand the horrors of war.

We owe you an apology for pretending that the most important things in life are cars and houses and clothes and jewels and electronic gadgets - things. For not teaching you the words, integrity and honesty and charity, by living them each and every day. For not protecting you from sexual abuse and domestic violence, sometimes even in your home and school and church. For not leaving you a cleaner, more sustainable environment and jobs with dignity and worth. For not leaving you a society where health care is a right, not a privilege, and where every American is covered.

We owe you an apology for not eradicating racism and sexism and homophobia and for not standing up for true democracy and real freedom and justice for all of God's creation. We offer you an apology. Maybe you will forgive us and maybe together we can join hands to change this world, one step at a time. Beginning today.

Ronald evans of MD @ Oct 04, 2008 11:12:59 AM

it's wounderful how the people that represent us can throw away our social security money. This money taken from our checks every week is suppose to be for our retirement. I do not like the fact that these representatives reach into our pockets every time there is an issue they cannot resolve. If we were in such dire need to resolve this economic problem, and as they stated "would destroy our country", Why did they not add their retirement money as we had to...

We need to vote these basterds out of office and show them they cannot get away with highway robbery.

alex Hernandez of AZ @ Oct 04, 2008 10:55:04 AM