This is really a simple issue. The big boys on Wall Street engaged in very risky behavior with their investments. They lost money. A lot of money. The bailout will reward and protect them from their bad choices.
As we make our walk through life, there is nobody available to guard us from our bad decisions. If we lose money on a real estate deal or the used car dealer swindles us, there is no protection from our bad choices.
(Well, there used to be, when the Republicans and Big Business did not control the Appellate Courts in Alabama, but that is the subject of another day and another post.)
The bailout will insulate the wealthy and take its toll on the rest of us. We will pay the toll by a reduction in the value of the dollar and the resulting price increase in oil. The oil increase will reverberate through the economy increasing transportation costs and other elements of the economy (everything) that rely on oil.
Meanwhile the rich get richer.
