Quote Originally Posted by daihashi
Ugh.. I'm sick of this crap too. I don't think we should be bailing out these companies who put themselves in the hole. The problem is that these companies are so intertwined with our economy that if they go down so does our economy. We would bounce back... no doubt about it, but it would be very hard times for a while.

Personally I'd be willing to deal with hard times as opposed to giving the impression to these companies that it's ok to be corrupt and run their company into the ground.. because the government will save them.
Agreed.

I'll take a few months of hardship for that. bailing them out gives a VERY bad message that the government will be the safety net when you choose to run a company into the ground because of your own greed.

And WTF is up with the fact that these jerks get multi-million dollar settlements when they leave? I call hoopla on that.