Bailout Bill Failed [at first] Because the Administration’s Modus Operandi Ain’t Working Anymore

Before he was declared president, Gov. Bush did not just bash nation-building, but he also slammed bailouts for lenders “who ought to be able to evaluate risk themselves.”  Of course he was talking about bailouts of banks from poor countries, not ours, yet.  (Our country might want to consider working on an IMF application soon.) [...]

The Bailout plan is Robbery with a bunch of Fountain Pens

Woody Guthrie wrote a series of ballads about outlaws, celebrating them as the populist heroes they had become as poor people stealing from the rich. Source.  “The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd” was written in 1939 which ends: Now as through this world I ramble I see lots of funny men Some will rob you [...]

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