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Settle down.

Go on pile on Bush for the next four years too. Give it a break.

Nobody likes this bill - but you are not the only one affected by the bill - the whole country is. I don’t expect a president to sit by and do nothing when the financial markets are crashing and I do not expect McCain or Bush to jump through the continual hoops yelling at people, throwing the country in the ditch and jumping to your or the other FR latest directive to vent your rage.

This is a very serious problem and whether you think so or not - the job of the president of the U.S. IS to seek the best action - good or not so good - to keep the financial markets running. We cannot afford everyone on welfare, we cannot afford drastic financial turmoil if there is a way to pick a path to a solution.

It may not please you. It may not please the others - but the country has to be protected from financial ruin.

So quit your little tantrums and grow up and realize that a president is not only looking at your personal welfare but the welfare of all businesses, all markets, all families, all financial intersts the U.S. is involved in worldwide.

If a bank fails here - lo - that bank has international connections and dealings. What makes you think those international dealings are unworthy of being secure?

Now - since he may not be the super human that can drum up a solution on a minute’s notice, try and realize that he is not set on destroying all conservatives, all everything - he is a man dealing with the politicians you have put in office by your decisions to come up with a solution that just might work if we are blessed.

Get a grip and wake up.

Yes I will pile on, because Bush and the neocons got us here through incredible strategic blundering and misdirection. Mismanagement of Iraq cost both lots of money, lots of lives, and lots of political capital. Bush could probably have brought Fannie Freddie and debt somewhat under control, but he need to pander to everyone else in order to pay for the incredible bungling of the Iraq warby incompetent good ol boyz and girlz in state, defense and the NSC.

So, here we are, undercutting McCain and giving Frank, Pelosi and that crowd and enormous political victory.

You bet I am pi$$ed. I am pi$$ed at the political incompetence that got us here. There are only a couple of people on this forum who have been screaming louder, longer about the coming financial debacle than me. Of course it is a serious problem. It is beyond serious. It is a pending disaster. I said so ten years ago, five years ago, two years ago and continuously in the last 18 months. I am one of the chicken littles who screamed the sky is falling to the derisive chorus of chumps like you.

So go give your pompous condescending lecture to someone else.

PS there is no easy way out of the debt overhang of a 25 year credit binge. You can default or you can destroy the currency.

PPS Enjoy life under president 0. Hopefully civil liberties and the US constitution will survive the Imperious All Knowing One that Bush and Paulson just sold the country down the river to.