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I appreciate your sentiment and emotion (and your tag line).

My point is the cynic does nothing to help the situation and in many cases makes it worse. In my experience, in the broadest sense, there are two types of people in the world — those that do and who are not afraid to lead; and those who sit by and go along for the ride and when things work out they reap the benefit and when things don’t work out, out comes the knives slashing away at those who acted.

So yes, I question the character of the cynic. There is a difference between a cynic and a critic.

Its obviously no fault of yours, nor is it of Hank Paulson’s, George Bush’s or even Barney Frank’s (as painful as it is for me to write). That is how capitalism works. The millions of actions and transactions that occur by millions of people over time create an economy. Sometimes things go off in the wrong direction, as has just happened, and it takes real skill and courage to get them back on path while avoiding disaster. Its happened before in our economy, just not in quite some time.

I do absolutely believe Paulson and Bernanke are our best chance at getting this right. If what they are trying doesn’t work, the angst we all feel today won’t compare to what lies down the road.