A late night poll re:bailouts

[ecstatic]

In an alternate reality, which taxpayer bailout would you most favor?

[Fovea]

1. Universal Health Care

and an ala carte choice of other options totaling up to 40K

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. Here's a article about how everyday people feel about the bailout: Resentment

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/21/AR2008092102534.html?hpid=topnews

A Sense of Resentment Amid the 'For Sale' Signs

By Joel Achenbach
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 22, 2008; Page A01

The bailout doesn't smell right to the people of Manassas Park, where the foreclosure signs are as common as azaleas. They know all about bad debt here. This is a terrain of oversize dreams, misjudgment, financial calamity -- and empty houses. "Foreclosure. Foreclosure. Foreclosure," said Ed Merkle, 58, as he pointed to the "for sale" signs lining his street.

But Merkle, a defense contractor, said he has lived within his means in an era of easy credit. He didn't take on a huge loan even when his bank encouraged him to dream bigger.

"I've been financially responsible with my own money. Why should I now be responsible for the fact that you were not?" he said.

This may be a Main Street bailout backlash in the making.

[ecstatic]

5. I think so too. This is one last F-you from Bush to us

And he knows there's nothing we can do!

[flamingdem]

3. Health care would return the most benefits

That is also where the greatest need and most neglect happens, imo.

[ecstatic]

4. I would love a bailout of all of the above of course, but chose housing

Having all my college loans excuses would be wonderful too. And credit card debt. They have billions for Iraq and Bush's cronies, but none for the rest of us. :eyes:

[vaberella]

6. My mum would love the mortgage/rent bailout. However, I think for the people and long run.

I went for the free healthcare for all bailout.

[glowing]

8. Healthcare would help mum out in the long run.. its one of the reasons

for many of the problems facing business owners and people in America.. it will lead to a better life in the end..

[vaberella]

10. That's the thing. My dad was a long shoreman.

His healthcare affords my mum healthcare that the President gets. I think my dad had the same doctors as Clinton does when he's in NYC. It's the best of the best.

I just don't have healthcare. My sister is struggling to pay for her healthcare.

My mum on the other hand has two. Both her job and my dad's job.

[glowing]

12. Yes, but if business owners don't have to shoulder all the burden of healthcare,

they could possibly pay more.. which I would think would make everyone better off.. AND perhaps the premiums and ins. rates wouldn't be as high, unless its free? I could use the mortgage relief myself.. but know that healthcare coverage nationwide would actually lead to better things all around.. the mortgage thing is a quickie..

[vaberella]

13. No your right, and further more it would eliminate the need for co-pay

which can go as high as $50 per visit per person.

[TexasObserver]

7. We should let the businesses fail that have failed to manage their business properly.

We should spend our country's budget on things WE need. Health care. Bridges. Roads. Energy independence. And if we are to bail out anything, it should be to create American jobs in manufacturing, to open plants that have been closed, with infusions of new technologies and capital.

[TheKentuckian]

9. We need to be bailing out America

A trillion dollar infusion into energy and infrastructure would pay huge dividends into the economy. This includes a major push for nationwide highspeed access and universal computer usage. I'd even do the unpopular and put 100 billion of that into NASA, which I believe would fasttrack new technologies and maintain the 10-1 traditional return on investment the space program puts into the economy.

We also have a nice bill from the Big 3 coming up anytime, that will be the time they fully get on board with us or go the way of the dinosaur.

We need to really ramp up education to take advantage of the investment into the next great incarnation of America. None of this propping up of failed institutions will reinvent this cracked wheel, we need to get out in front of the world again and we do that by moving into the future not finding ways to maintain. There is no maintaining because you change, you grow, or you die.

[demodonkey]

11. Healthcare for All is not a Bailout. It is a necessity that every other industrialized country has.

Single payer healthcare for all is something we should have done decades ago.

The cost of healthcare that is part of the cost of our goods and services is one of the biggest reasons we are no longer competitive in the international market.