Wednesday, December 03, 2008 | 12:06 a.m.

The Supersize Bailout

by Debra J. Saunders

The only way Congress could pass a $700 billion economic bailout package last week was to spend an extra $110 billion that the federal government does not have.

How could this happen?

Before lawmakers larded the bailout, it failed. Last week, as it faced its first vote in the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader John Boehner failed to line up the necessary votes to pass what Washington called a "clean" bill to address the credit crisis. Each party blamed the ...

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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Comment: #1
Tue Oct 7, 2008 9:54 AM

Ma'am;...What problem do you have in fact with pork on a pig? The bailout is my piggy bank, and even yours, thrown on top of a great squealing, larded feast of hog for hogs. The people advise against it. The government does not listen, but tries to throw a greasy little hushpuppy to their particular dogs. And you object.???..This is champaign on ice on the first class deck of the Titanic. It won't save the ship. No doubt some people feel that if some money comes their way, they can trade it for Gold, or Eurals,... if they have not tanked. I trust that they know; that if this house fails it will be far worse than the government having done nothing at all because the government will be robbed of trust, and money, and they will have to say no, no, no to the wee people of America. What will they do if people do not just give up, but fight back? I mean, some guy just killed himself over this mess and his family to, out of honor. At least he had a sense of honor, but most will laugh that motive off easily enough. And I heard a woman the other day call C-span; and that woman had bet everything she owned on the American Dream, tried to start a business, got a mortgage, was subprimed and ballooned and lost all, and she was crying and saying she didn't know what she was going to do....she isn't alone...That ought to be an end to it; right? We are all supposed to cry like babies or kill ourselves so the rich can keep all our money and all our country. Well the government won't govern, and business won't work unless given a pile of dollars. Why do we need either one???.. Can't we do better getting to zero and starting over?...Thanks.....Sweeney

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