A rescue plan for the rest of us
The federal government has given Wall Street a taxpayer-financed cash infusion of up to $700 billion in an attempt to avert a steep economic downslide. But people on Main Street are also hurting, and a majority of Americans think the government hasn't done enough for them, according to a new poll by the Consumer Reports National Research Center.
Fifty-six percent of respondents said the government needs to do more to help average citizens through ...
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It's time to help main street. It wasn't main street that caused the crisis. Wall Street investment bankers and unregulated greed caused it, and the first ones to get help were the clowns that caused the problem in the first place. No bank should be so big that it can't fail. Break up or spin off, but the American public should not have to finance greed and stupidity in this scale.