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by cardmagic 6456 days ago
Do you guys realize that you are both falling into the same fallacious talk as as the author of the blog post. "Bailing out the rest of us" whether you are for it or against it is such a naive statement. You guys are both overlooking not only the highly complicated ways in which this entire situation is affecting all of us... how the bank failures can and is directly leading to layoffs of people that have never in their lives overextended themselves financially, but also the fact that there is absolutely no straightforward path to bailing out anybody in this situation. Even if someone wanted to, nobody could bail out "the rest of us" so your bickering is moot. The only thing we can do is watch as this tidal wave washes over us all and play it safe until it passes. None of us are out of reach of this event.