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So the Perpetrators Are Now Our Saviors?

mark
seems like jefferson tried to warn us about allowing a national bank. and the whole lot of them tried to give us guidelines to keep constitutional money in order to have a stable currency. they told us to have fair trade not free trade. they told us to keep a free market with limited govt. policing to keep it fair. we have done none of those things. now we are suprised that a bunch of politicians that have no clue of what real life business is have brought the biggest strongest economy to the brink of meltdown.
user26737, you need to look back through several decades of presidents, congresses and policies. it is a huge simplification to give bush the blame. he deserves his share for not trying to fix the stupid policies. he might be the worst but he has plenty of competition for that title.
maybe the fannie freddie hybrid creature was more suited to china, russia, and nazi germany than to a country that is supposed to run by free enterprise. let's see first the politicians pointed at speculaters, and big oil. then they pointed at foriegn oil suppliers. then one branch of the socialist party (democrats) started pointing fingers at the other branch (republicans) and vice versa. the last blame was on the free market that i am aware of. there was no free/fair market in the first place. maybe for the short term we will have an illusion of improvement. i will keep in mind the success of the war on poverty, the war on drugs, and the govt. school system and expect similar results for the economy.
sensible texan and GKM--agreement.