Are you for or against this bailout?

[El Pinko]

The way I see it, it's the wrong prescription for what ails America.

The ultimate reason for the bubble and subsequent crash was wanton speculation on borrowed (foreign) money.

The reason people speculated with borrowed money is because their incomes have been stagnant and good jobs have become too scarce. (Because we import everything and no longer make anything)

Any effort to fix this should be focused on fixing the root cause which is income inequality, too few good-paying jobs.

Trade deals that hurt US workers and domestic industries need to be scrapped now, and the government needs to create massive incentives to locate more industries here and to pay workers well.

We also should realign our economy so that it's focused a bit less on consumption and encourages people to save and invest.

This "bailout" will amount to nothing more than yet another giveaway to the rich that does absolutely NOTHING to address the fundamental weakness of our economy, in addition to devaluing the currency (which makes us all effectively POORER).



But what the hell do I know. What do you think?


(Edited to add another choice for people who want this bailout as well as more for working people.)

[FreakinDJ]

1. Say "Good Bye" Social Security Ins

America rather insure bad loans then the working class

[Warren Stupidity]

2. You transformed your simple question into a series of loaded options

Why not just for, against, other/no opinion?

That would have been a simple question.

[El Pinko]

3. You call them "loaded", I call them more specific choices.

Many has been the time when I walked into a voting booth and was expected to vote "yes" or"no" on a ballot initiative that I thought was deeply flawed, but where I wished I had the choice of a better version of the initiative.


I get a lot of complaints about my polls being "loaded" or "rigged", so maybe they are - I'm sure as hell no pollster or statistician.

I tried to give several reasonable options and an "other" choice for anything I may not have considered.

Yes, I prefaced it with my opinion. I think that's a lot more honest than posting a loaded poll without making clear what my opinion is.


I will concede that the question is not all that 'simple' - that has been removed from the thread title.