As usual, people in our country think bigger government is the answer to all ills. It's just sad to see such unConstitutional nonsense being espoused on Free Republic.
They whip us up into unnecessary panics (i.e. We're going to have a worldwide banking system collapse!) for one reason and one reason only: to grab power and trample the Constitution. Our people foolishly listened to them back during the Great Depression, and are paying for it to this day. And now, we are foolishly listening to them again, and both we and the next generation and the next and so on will pay for the foolishness and weakness of this generation. We have to wake up! They are using us, plain and simple, and it's about time we finally realized that.
Sine government caused this crisis and since it was way larger and more immediate than private enterprises could respond to, it was a correct call for governemnt to intervene. Sad that such obvious realities get lost in political rhetoric.