Reply #281: That seems pretty much the view of house republicans too

[bridgit]

There will be a 'so-called bailout' however (I do favor the doling out in much smaller, regulated performance/merit based drips & drabs, like feeding pigeons in the park I want to see them hop & peck for it). While I want to see the perpetrators of all things nefarious, this collapse included, turned round on a rotisserie a couple times; I'm in no position to decree the legs be cut out from under honorable people caught up in this mess that will suffer the effects of credit drying up cause I live in a house fully paid for, or sit atop vast holdings in a credit union and so am able to ride out such a malady.

My husband and I are IC's, we don't own a house paid for or otherwise. We don't need any more access to credit than is required for extended hotel stays and rental vehicles *and* agreed to in advance by contract.

Maybe that was what was missing all along. An actionable understanding of what the future is and what it means; what the breach of that understanding really looks like.