Do you support some kind of publicly funded bail-out?

[BuyingThyme]

[mdmc]

1. If Bernie Saunders and Dennis Kucinich are on board - count me in

I like Ron Paul, but I am actually a liberal. So I don't mind big gov. doing its thing.

The most important thing to remember is that our economy is based on trust. We need to restore trust to our economic system. If the bailout will do this, then I am down.

Otherwise, let them eat cake.

[BuyingThyme]

2. I'm a liberal, but I neither accept your big gov. label

nor this bail-out.

[mdmc]

19. I'm a big government liberal

I think that the government can be a source of support and comfort to the people. I don't think that it is evil or that smaller government is better.

[The Gunslinger]

22. But George Bush is asking you to trust him.

That is a big warning sign to me.

[mdmc]

28. me too

but I don't have power. If Bernie is on board, I am more or less comfortable.

[NoUsername]

3. Only if every dime of the bailout money comes from the top 1%.

Let the rich bail out the rich. Or let them eat their own, however it plays out. Leave the poor and working class out of it.

[BuyingThyme]

4. Welcome to DU, NoUsername!

:hi:

[closeupready]

26. Exactly. I would be totally fine with that plan. As it is, they are going to

be taxing that money from all of us by making our existing cash less valuable. Completely not fair, and I can't afford it.

[DCKit]

5. Yes, but only to refinance sub-prime mortgages...

at market value - far less than the current mortgage owners want or would get with the Paulson/Bernanke proposal.

Didn't vote to prevent skewing your poll.

[BuyingThyme]

8. I don't think your one vote will skew it all up.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

6. I think you should include "Yes*" as an option

I would approve, but only with several strict conditions.

[BuyingThyme]

7. I think you're a YES.

[BuyingThyme]

9. ..

[RB TexLa]

10. No, investors, lenders, and borrowers all have to own their failures

[sniffa]

16. But we will own them all even more so

Seriously. This is jaw dropping - the actual danger not only we face, but the world markets as well.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. No. The bankers can't complain that they didn't read the fine print they wrote themselves.

I've made some lousy investments and had to write them off as lousy investments. I didn't have any bankers knocking on my door offering to buy them so I wouldn't suffer.

[BuyingThyme]

12. You know, I wonder how the Puke'n Repukelick site would vote on this same poll.

Have we found common ground with the evil ones?

:hide:

[cloudythescribbler]

13. These skewed %s against ANY bailout reflect how DUers diverge from cross-section of Democrats nt

[BuyingThyme]

14. I'm not so sure about that.

I think most Democrats, with a similar base of information, would feel the same.

[cloudythescribbler]

20. projecting what people WOULD feel, if only they knew ... CAN be VERY SLIPPERY

but the fact that the vast majority in that poll favored NO BAILOUT AT ALL, while most Democrats, including informed ones, including Obama (and myself -- not so informed, but not less so than most DUers) favor a progressive politically oriented bailout (my own vision no doubt far different from Obama's), says A LOT

[sniffa]

15. Yes. There needs to be something done.

This isn't about "bailing them out" - it's about hopefully staving off the Great Depression II. Yes, it's coming - This isn't chicken little. Even with the bailout (if it happens) we're still going to go through the last pangs of the recession but we'll hopefully survive. Doing nothing will put most of us in shambles and will take much longer to recover from.

However, we can't allow biz as usual to continue. Transparency and regulation must be the trade off. The government must nationalize the entities it rescues (to what extent, I'm not knowledgeable enough to say) because private entities will not be able to survive the possible long term required to recover.

[Chisox08]

17. This bail out will only

Push the upcoming collapse back a few months. The only difference would be is that we will be $700 billion deeper in debt. They only way to fix things is to put people to work and allow them to renegotiate their mortgages and their credit card debt. The banks might on ge $.70 on the dollar but at least people will still be in their homes and the banks will still be getting paid.

[The Gunslinger]

23. How come no one in Washington can figue that out?

[slackmaster]

18. Bailout of who and what and how much, as determined how and by whom?

:shrug:

[The Gunslinger]

21. Not for the corporate banks.

[Swamp Rat]

24. I support using some of the money to rebuild our levees.

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

25. NO hell no

underlying issues must be addressed, from predatory lending, to stagnant wages, to the declining middle class, to the outrageous health insurance costs, to the ridiculous housing prices, to the lack of mortgage regulation, and the completely evil evil executive compensation/bonuses. And while i am shooting for the moon, lets throw public financing of elections in there too.

NO BAILOUT

[TBF]

27. I've got a better idea - next year instead of collecting $2 Trillion in

taxes let's allow everyone earning under $70K to have a tax-free year. No withholding, no paying back for previous years, no taxes period. I have a feeling many more people would have a prosperous year and stay in their homes. ABSOLUTELY NOT to this ridiculous corporate welfare.