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It is a bailout, you socialist mor0n. In a free market, you would have failed (as you must).

Are you sure. Every account that I've heard indicated Northern did not want to participate in the government program but was coerced into it. A case of the government saying you have to take our money so we can complain about how you spend your money.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Every account that I've heard indicated Northern did not want to participate in the government program but was coerced into it.

If Bush was not aware that Paulson and minions were forcing banks to take TARP money, that would have been spectacularly incompetent.

If Bush was aware, is he a conservative, socialist or very confused?