Boy, pretty soon we'll be talking about real money! [deadpan]

Cripes, yesterday Shelley sent me this link here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26787984/from/ET/

Now I am NO accountant but a 500 billion dollar bailout rubs me the wrong way. And while we're on the subject, I'm not a fan of airlines getting floated by our government either. It's whacked, we purport to be capitalist and then we break up monopolies when companies become too successful and we also bail them out when they fail.

Obviously there are repercussions to this situation either way and you don't want to hammer the 'common man' because he invested his life savings in a firm managed by some over-zealous, 30-something, gotta-one-up-my-co-worker investment banker but sheesh...  Either lots of people lose their money or we have to pay up so they don't. Sucks.