Please vote NO on the issue of the $700 Billion bailout. I’m not concerned with adding strings to the Bill. It’s simply wrong to throw money at incompetence. And why the big hurry? So the corporate giants, the Saudis and the Chinese have more time to get their money out of the market and we can put it all on the middle class?

After 9/11 we didn’t throw money at Al-Quaeda in hopes they wouldn’t hurt us again.

If Paulson is asking ‘how did we get here?’ he obviously can’t add. This bailout and it’s urgency don’t add up. I beg you not to fall victim to this deceit.

I’m looking to buy my first house. I would like to buy it for cash. How could I risk my savings when we’re pushing fantasy home prices. The prices here have barely moved and they should be about 60% of where they’re at now. I will never buy under this uncertainty. As a cash buyer I need to believe we have seen the worst and are not going to prolong this bubble.

Perhaps the market will crash but let the crash happen let’s face the music. Of course you don’t build anything with a bad foundation. How can we begin when we don’t know where the bottom is? It’s time for a wakeup call. Markets crash but they also recover and we are a resourceful people.

Which does not make it okay for the government to keep giving my money away like that.

Look, I appreciate the fact that everyone has finally figured it out – even cribbing the Recovery metaphor I used last week. This is being treated as an addiction, and we have to evaluate it as such. But c’mon, people, this outrage has to be tempered with a realization that everyone who honestly thought their 401k would return 6% a year forever was part of the problem.

You were all duped, and more to the point the people like me who understood it were dismissed as lunatics. You want to do something about it? First of all, stop whining and get real. You don’t get something for nothing. Understand? Good, let’s go on from there.