Mr. Gilani would make a great politician, would he not? What exactly is your position, Mr. Gilani, other than that you would like to have your cake and eat it too?

While Mr. Gilani's stance is not apparent, what is apparent is that the principle of freedom and liberty is completely lost on Mr. Gilani as well as every comment-poster to this page. I understand taxpayer concern over how their money is spent, but why attack the bankers rather than the morally bankrupt politicians who are choosing to bail them out? I suppose the answer to this is simple: fear. The politicians have convinced the masses that the world will end if we let our current banking system fail. Common sense would tell us that as long as there is demand for borrowing and lending in a free market, it certainly will take place, even if we don't have banks named Citibank, Chase, and Bank of America. In, times like these, however, it is clear that common sense does not prevail, but rather the continued transfer of power into the hands of a small group of elite, who continue to do immense damage to our future prosperity.

When will people wake up?

The government then incentivizes bad business practices in the name of "helping" the poor into housing ownership. Of which they provided minimal or in many cases zero "after signing" support programs to help these new homeowners develop long term plans and budgets needed for the responsible managment and protection of their newly acquired assets.

Why doesn't or didn't the law makers of this country step in and fix the problems they themselves helped to create? The answer is simple, to do so would require cutting off the stream of tax revenues from those "greedy high income earners". Simply put you can't keep artifically moving the tax payer goal posts and expect anyone to win the game.

Moving tax payers out of "middle tax brackets" and pushing them into "lower tax brackets" first breaks their moral and reduces the desire to be productive. People with no desire to be productive are more receptive to handouts. Hand outs not only buy votes but also increase the burden on those in the upper tax brackets.

With enormous pressure now upon them our wise law makers now find themselves having to bite clean off the only hand they've been feeding from. Yes they have painted themselves into the proverbial corner this time.

I have no fear however that the American people will rebel just like they did in the past. We can only hope that neither we nor the terrorists blow us up 1st.