BAILING OUT... OURSELVES

     There's been a lot of complaining that the proposed bailout pays for the sins of Wall Street millionaires.  Well, that's passing the 700 billion bucks.  We're all adults here: we know that Wall Street believes "greed is good" and that there's no one who can put the brakes on that except the government.  But the fact is, American voters repeatedly elected politicians, very much including Bush, Cheney and McCain, who let mortgage lenders get away with malfeasance on a grand scale.  As the New York Times noted, McCain "has never departed in any major way from his party’s embrace of deregulation and relying more on market forces than on the government to exert discipline."  So let's be honest: we're paying for our sins, not Gordon Gekko's.  Vote wisely in November.