> It is great to debate what is happening in financial
> markets, the proposed bailout, etc.But when people start
> talking positively, as if this were a revolutionary moment
> , about how the public hates the bailout, how the
> leftshould propose immediate alternatives, that we should
> let the whole things go down the tubes,how a bailout today
> just forestalls catastrophe tomorrow, ad naseum, then I
> think a lot of peopleare losing their grip on reality.
I absolutely agree with this. At the same time, a collective pleading for a bailout and sticking our fingers in our ears runs the danger of making us deaf to the possibilities that might present themselves, or that can be created.