Reply #78: Can you name one Leftist [View All]

who doesn't consider you a shill for Wall Street bankers? I know, I know, we're all "morons, idiots and paranoid nutcases". You keep intimating that the money will be paid back, its a one-time "loan" and that arithmetic is a lost art --but you are short on proof for any of those claims. In fact you have an abundance of signals suggesting the exact opposite that you are forced to try and "refute"

A one-time loan that will be "paid back" -- and lets be real here, how many loans are made with merely the hope that one day the principal will be recovered..most of it anyway -- sort of indicates that you see some sort of 'normalcy' returning? Thing is, if all of that "propserity" was based on debt and this crisis is exactly the wake up call that you can't build prosperity on debt..

Add to this the fact that rising indebtedness was the ONLY possible driver before this and..

Not to mention the irony -- when you factor in ALL of the money that has been transferred to Wall Street (not just TARP, but also monies from the Fed remember), now you have to explain a much larger sum that totals multiple trillions of dollars. So you your "one time expenditure" has already been made multiple times over (which, whether you know it or not, is the definition of recurring)