Planes, Trains, and Automobiles – The BIG Bailouts

America is in crisis.
The world is in crisis.

We are in a holding pattern, and who knows what will happen next? Not the economists. Not the politicians. Not the Wall Street gamblers — and certainly not the American working class. We are unable to fathom the consequences this may produce for the stability of our country, our families, and our collective future.

We need to fix the decaying infrastructure of our country. We need to give a sense of hope to our children. But mostly, we need to change a culture that tolerates and even admires the concentration of private wealth into one that honors the dignity and empowerment of all humans, rich and poor.

We’ll wait and see where all the bailouts will leave the other 90%
of Americans; the fallout has yet to trickle down. Social programs, the
first to be cut in times of economic crisis, already operate at minimal
functional ability. Bread lines, homelessness, and tent villages will
sprout and spread all across the country, out on the edge of most major
cities.

As economist Joseph Stiglitz flatly stated, “There’s no such
thing as a free lunch, a free war, or a free bailout. Someone has to
pay.” Would that would be the American people?