Uncle Sam wants to bail out Wall St. with my money?  Whatever.  It makes me sick but I suppose it needs to happen.  However, attaching a hundred billion dollars of tax breaks and other pork to the bill makes me want to break things.  I hope the house republicans kill this thing.

America has a very fundamental decision to make regarding the nature of our capitalism.  Wall St. CANNOT continue to have it both ways.  They take insane risks and we make them whole?  Not without some strings brother and I see no strings in this bill, no commitment to regulate the industry going forward.  If public money is to be used to fix this mess then the public interest needs to be looked after.  I view this in the same vein as Title IX that drove the emergence of womens sports in educational institutions.  The Universities that took public money had to let the girls play and if Wall St. takes public money, the regulators need to be able to do their thing.

Don’t even start with the “government made them do it” argument.  It is baloney.  If you are the CEO of a company and you allow your company to run in a manner that makes it insolvent, you have but one person to blame.

Here endeth the populist rant…:)

It’s on for tomorrow night.  We’ll see.  I am not sure that any outcome will surprise me as I view it as a complete wild card.  Given what I’ve seen, I expect that Palin will have some dificulties but Biden regularly shoots himself in the foot, leg, etc. 

Oddly enough, I think that the candidate that does the best at focusing on the opposing candidate for president and not the foe directly accross the stage from them will do the best.

Go ahead and let me know what you think.