Something Obvious.

[cottonpicken]

I was talking to an aunt about the stockmarket collapse and jokingly said,"the funny part about this is you have to make a far greater return than you lost to get back to even".

This little mathmatical fact is not as obvious as i thought it was.

[sumdumguy]

Seems to me that all the corporate development has been financed on the backs of the savers. This is what Clinton-Bush condoned. Give almost free money to losers so they could fill the corporate pockets, then when they have to pay up-Oh-Oh-Darn. The people who worked and saved are getting nothing for their money and the fed keeps lowering interest rates so all those empty houses can be refilled by losers.

[classicalliberal]

That is socialism for you, giving bailouts to help save the jobs of the little man. Let them die, that is why most republicans, who have a bad name because of Bush now, have tried to block the bailouts because it is anti-capitalist/free market to bail out those who are doing well. If you can do well without sharing the wealth, then you should be able to die without being bailed out.