Reply #16: The other winners are all those of "us" who played the same speculative games that fed

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their toxic assets schemes, a "house of credit cards" and overvalued homes, everybody waiting for the music to stop, so some other sucker would be left holding the bag.

Yes, the Big Boys didn't think it would be them. No, it's not right for the Little Guy to bail 'em out.

Maybe the Big Boys knew that would be the end game and had no worries; maybe the Little Guy didn't think any of it through.

Just like with jobs being outsourced for close to 20 years -- it takes 15 for the mainstream to understand they're buying up cheap goods at their own expense, until We're Screwed.

What I wonder is why this debacle is not being seen as the "October Surprise" financial suitcase nuke that Bushco perpetrated as their "attack" during the transition of power.

No need to declare martial law when everyone's unemployed and/or forced out of their homes.