Bye Bye Banks and Wall Street

[innerSpaceman]

The deal announced early today Falls Apart This Evening.


Good.


Unfortunately, it won't completely fall apart. For once, I applaud conservatives in Congress, those who are balking at government interference in private business.


I'm sorry for all the people who were suckered into mortgages they could not afford to pay, and for people who invested with institutions that liked to gamble dangerously with their money. Sorry, but why should I pay to bail the likes of you out? I didn't buy a house I couldn't afford. I didn't have my money invested with charletans. Dems da breaks.


As for the cascading chain reaction of doom ... well, if that's what's to come, then why try putting our fingers in the breaking dam? I hope the so-called deal goes nowhere and we let the chips fall where they may.


It's easy for me to say, because I'm not a gambling man. This is why.


If there were no way of losing, I would have played along all this time.