If we've got to spend half a trillion, why don't we spend it protecting the little folk?

[struggle4progress]

Recapitalize FDIC. Save ordinary people.

Half a trillion to Wall Street is Grover Norquist's dream of bankrupting the Federal government. Any loans to the big boys better come with real strings attached: meaningful regulation, salary caps, and much higher taxes for wealthy individuals and corporations to pay for it

We can't afford to waste more money in Iraq. And we ought to be funding US infrastructure, in particular: public transportation and healthcare

[aquart]

1. Don't you get it? They want to make damn sure we can't.

Obama will walk into a bankrupt administration with centuries of unpayable debt.

[struggle4progress]

2. Yep. It's exactly what Bush the first did to Clinton, only more so

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Because what we pay the politicians is chump change compared to what the lobbyists pay them.