From way back when, leaders of countries, while cloaked in legality, occasionally have inflicted some of the most horrendous crimes against citizens of their own country: men and women have been forcibly and without just cause separated from their families; unborn babies torn from wombs; human beings burnt alive at the stake; physical torture unspeakable, to the brink of death, administered; properties confiscated and whole towns and villages displaced, or annihilated, in the name of some god or of some king or queen; human beings who, innately, look different from the ruling class, condemned to slavery; and the list goes on, without end, it seems.
It's against such a background yours truly views the Bush administration's proposed taxpayer bailout of financial institutions in the USA, for, try as he has/can, yours truly cannot fathom why what now seems to be one thousand billion US dollars, plus, could be seized, no questions asked, from the present and future generation of American citizens; for what purpose? Essentially, to be given to a few men and women who messed up big time, so that none of their deliberately self-generated mess would stick to them, rather to those from whom this cache of a trillion-plus dollars is seized. A few men and women who, by the way, happen to be bosom friends of the leaders who decided to bail them out.
Thank God that the people and the wise amongst the US Congress have stiffened their spines and hardened their stance against the White House in this matter and have, thus far, refused to approve Bush's skimpy three-page Bailout Bill which, in its tendered form, would have given to the US Treasury Secretary unfettered power and authority to do with as he pleases, the many billions of dollars that Bush seeks for the junkies of Wall Street.
