>I'm not alone in wanting the government to confiscate a portion of the
>excessive pay the bankers took and use that money before charging bailout
>costs to the middle class. Talk me down- I like this discussion group
>because you're so very skeptical of this kind of simple approach.
here's the thing, its a red herring. Americans by nature seem to want to find someone to blame, someone to punish, rather than address the systematic causes. But its a disaster to do that, the problem is systematic, it isn't just caused by a few bad apples, its the barrel stupid. ;-)
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas