Economic meltdown: What should the next step be?

[Naturyl]

This poll has only two options by design. If you aren't sure, please choose the option closest to your current stance.

[OhioChick]

1. Revision.

However, I see the same happening down the road until people have JOBS.

On edit to add: Transparency. No golden parachutes, to start with.

[snappyturtle]

9. Absolutely....it's all about jobs and income disparity...but we haven't

heard anyone bringing that subject up with this 'meltdown' or whatever it is. Michael Moore's piece said medical bills have caused many, many of the mortgage defaults and while I think he probably knows more about the actual numbers, I assume that job loss is another enormous factor.

[TxBlue]

16. Bail Out Homeowners & Job Mkt - NOT Wall Street

Create good jobs, not McJobs!, and provide safety net for homeowners.

Health care is good but majority of people aren't in danger of losing home just cuz of health but job loss.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Nationalize the investment banks.

[TahitiNut]

8. There aren't any left in the U.S. GS and MS became commercial banks.

:shrug:

[Jackpine Radical]

14. Fuck. Nationalize them too.

And the oil companies, and the power companies...(pant, froth)

[msongs]

3. a completely new progressive reinvention of America's financial system anyone? nt

[mike_c]

6. bingo! You mean something not based on unsustainable debt growth...?

Be still, my heart!

[TexasObserver]

4. No further action is needed .... Until the public wants it to happen.

The problem is not the bill. The problem is the state of the population, which is not yet sufficiently behind a bill. When they get behind it, then it will sail through.

[SIMPLYB1980]

5. Pass the bill shore up the market. Win, fix it our way in January.

[snappyturtle]

10. Horror of horrors, what if we suffer another stolen election? nt

[SIMPLYB1980]

12. Then we have a civil war.

[jtrockville]

7. I won't be hemmed into a false choice.

Just because Paulson et al won't consider other options doesn't mean we should all don the blinders.

[FarCenter]

11. If there is really a meltdown, Bush will declare a state of national emergency

And he and Cheney will rule by decree.

[thewiseguy]

13. No action would be necessary?!

Are you people fucking nuts? :wtf:

Unfuckingbelievable.

[adamuu]

15. Purely Democratic bill that no Republican would vote for, and that Bush must veto. n/t