Video: Bailout Bill: The Winners and Losers

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I just find it hard to believe that after allll this, there are still people out there facing eviction tomorrow. STILL families who cant make it another week, employers contemplating who they have to let go next month, etc etc -- ALL this talk of 'bailout' does what again for us? me? you? All this money being shifted around, and i didn't even qualify for that little stimulous check! where is my bailout? when do i get relief? My taxes are nearly 35% (single career woman, no kids). I get NO help - yet im forced to help those who started this mess?? thats like being abused, then paying for the medical treatment of the abuser who hurt his hand while punching my face...only in America...

T. Hampton of PA 10:06PM October 03, 2008

THIS IS THE BIG PROBLEM! THERE IS NO WAY TO STOP INFLATION. WITH ALL THE MONEY ENTERING THE MAEKET, PRICES WILL CLIMB BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS. THE GREEDY RETAILERS WILL CHARGE, CHARGE AND CHARGE!!!!!! WHY NOT? PEOPLE WILL BE LOADED WITH GOVERNMENT MONEY, EXCEPT FOR THE RETIRED PEOPLE.

A.L.BLACK of LA 11:59AM October 02, 2008

I think you need to go back to school and learn math. The bureau of labor reports we have 154.5 million people working in the country - to include unemployed. $700 Billion spread across each laborer is only $4,500, roughly, each. And thats without bailing anybody out!

Larry Cox of NC 10:22PM October 01, 2008

before you ask the taxpayors to pay the piper for the excess of wall street and the incompetence of washington DC, perhaps they ought to consider easing the buden on mainstreet first. I figure 3.5 billion should give every citizen that made less than 2 million net last year a $25K damages award before our government spends $700 billion of our future to bail-out the cheats, liars and theives on wall street. It will allow the stupid folks who didn't listen to their highschool economics teacher talk about ARM's and balloon payments to re-negotiate the mortgages they couldn't afford in the first place. It will allow the moderately stable to pay off debt and save for retirement. It will take every citizen off the welfare rolls for at leat 12 months. it will give any kid (and adult)who wants it, the chance to go back to school. it rewards the poor but not stupid like me who new I could not afford a mortgage on an ARM but work my butt off year after year for low wages adn will never be able to afford a home of my own; i may not even be able to retire before I die. It will allow the truly stupid the spending spree of their dreams and the wise the chance to affect some change in their lives and futures. Most of all, it will stimulate this economy like no-bodies business! then go fix the mess for wall street; but pay us damages first, before you ask us to pay for the damage that someone else has done.

tamara hutchison of WA 8:22PM September 30, 2008