Uneducated Reaction To The Bailout Plan

Now, I'm serious about the uneducatedness--and, ergo, the weightlessness--of my reaction here. I just post such things to sort of keep track of such reactions. My judgments about such matters are worth almost exactly nothing. They're worth about what a coin toss on the matter would be.

But, FWIW (again: nothing), my reaction at this point is, roughly: you're sh*tting me, right?

I'm trying hard to figure out how it is that we're not being asked to give an almost incomprehensible amount of money to a bunch of idiotic criminals because their get-rich quick scheme went awry.

I do understand that there are advantages to be gained for us by doing this...but, then, there are advantages to be gained by turning your wallet over to the mugger. That doesn't mean that you should do it, nor that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

Personally, this seems like the soft bigotry of low expectations to me. I say, if you want to be a de facto criminal (even if what you're doing is, strickly speaking, legal), then you need to be good at it. Don't expect the taxpayers to give you a handout just because you weren't smart enough or hard-working enough to achieve the American dream of easy, non-actual-work-related money in incomprehensibly vast sums, cocaine snorted off of hookers' asses, and really stupid-looking suspenders.

But I can't stress enough how little I actually undertand about what's going on.