” Corporate welfare for banks and the automobile industry in a country with no national health or child care system- this is insanity! ” was said in: Bush offers .4B to automakers George Bush’s free market idealism is much like his idea of democracy – it is good – as long as they control the strings – but this is interfering with the free market – just as the multi trillion dollar bailout for financial industy is interfering with the free market. Democracy is only good as long as the guy in power is on your side – if he is on his/her peoples side – then all bets are off. The multi trillion dollar derivitives market – should never of been allowed to function outside any regulatory agency – fact. Who has taken account for this abhorrent betting outside the game? Why is the taxpayer on the hook for banks that got overextended in the derivitive market? Why were the banks even allowed to gamble in such a way? Where is the justice? The subprime mortgage fiasco never should of been allowed to occur. Where were the security insurance ratings guys – and how was it that these were allowed to be bundled and resold as AAA rated security funds????? Who has taken account for this total lack of oversight? Where is the justice? And now it comes down to mainstreet – and we are left, with no retirement, no money, more debt and less jobs. No amount of bailout is going to get people buying cars again. That is the bottom line. 2 TRILLION dollars of wealth dissappeared out of the pockets …