Reply #5: That's not socialism...that's business as usual in the good ol' US of A.

[tjwash]

Give a hand to their criminal buddies on wall street, as hundred of thousands of American families simultaneously lose their homes to foreclosure. Just another big fuck you to the people that are really getting hurt, The federal government won't lift a finger to help them, but the greedy irresponsible multi-millionaires who brought this crisis on get the royal treatment instead of the prison terms that they deserve.

As it is right now, these folks have everything to gain and nothing to lose. The precedent was set already in the 80's when they bailed out the S and L's this way. It sucks, because I can understand the need keep markets functioning, but there has to be some kind of middle ground where this kind of behavior is punished and not encouraged.