[counterpunch]

Standing up to Wall Street and representing the taxpayers??

Taxpayers don’t want to beat up on Wall Street. Their futures are tied to Wall Street.
They just don’t want their Government giving certain hand picked companies special treatment, handing over trillions of dollars in free money at their expense.

People are angry because their small businesses are also in financial trouble because of the economy, but no one in Washington is going to be handing them fistfuls of free cash. People don’t want or expect that kind of treatment from the Government, and it makes them angry to see that a special few get it.

[mbynack]

Taxpayers don’t want to beat up on Wall Street. Their futures are tied to Wall Street.

I tried to make that point last year when people kept sending me e-mails asking me to join in their protest against "rich oil company owners." I told them that I had my retirement invested in funds that included the oil companies. If you punish the oil companies you're punishing the stockholders and ruining retirements.

[Notary Sojac]

Last September there were plenty of Freepers arguing that it every other business could go pound sand, as long as we saved a half dozen big investment banks.

I asked them repeatedly if it was OK with them for a Democrat administration to get the same kind of power and blank check they wanted to give to Paulson.

The answer was always "Yes! We've got to save the investment banks! Sweet Jesus, save the suffering banks, or we'll all be living in refrigerator cartons and fighting over roadkill!!"

Those Freepers and their sentiments are noticeably not very much in evidence lately.