Here's the thing, see....

It's not like the Depression. Household savings and checking accounts aren't the things at stake. No, the Depression and the Great Crash netted us the FDIC - which means your money at the bank is insured against runs and catastrophic losses. Insured. Yeah, you read that right.

So what the government is saying is that this Wall Street Bailout, this one that failed, is basically a reward for investors who gambled with other people's money (to reduce the risk of loss to themselves) and when they lost money and walked off, someone was left holding the bag, and it was about to be you and me. We were about to be asked to "insure" an industry that had no right to be in the first place, an industry that was created and allowed fortunes to be made by trading on risk like a commodity.

Ah yes...what are those famous words?

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"

I can't wait to get out of debt.