The reckoning will not be delayed

The bailouts are bullshit; it's a giveaway to the rich. We're giving the Wall St. scum huge Christmas bonuses by way of tax dollars. These are the same idiots who played Casino with our pension funds and life savings, gambling on derivatives and other arcane/bullshit financial instruments.
I'm with you Rod; it would be better to let the system clean itself out rather than try to prop up something that is going to crash anyway.
We are rewarding the very same despicable vermin who actually CAUSED the mess! It's INSANE.
They are raiding the treasury like never before in the nations' history. The numbers are so staggering that laymen cannot possibly understand the full impact.
My God, we could have paid for universal healthcare, alternative energy, alternative transportation...and more, many times over! There should be riots in the streets. There should be perp walks.
There should probably even be some executions for high treason, and I am completely serious.
Think about this....they throw TRILLIONS at the Wall St. scum, yet the automakers are chastised for asking for a measly 25 billion loan. At least automakers DO something for a living! I mean, as opposed to shuffling paper around and stealing from the populace.

I no longer have any faith at all in our government. I think that they are throwing away the future of this country; the giveaway will probably hasten the collapse of the currency, and at the very least will further debase the dollar.

It's sad that I have to keep moving my paltry little savings around in fear of bank failures. Who would have ever imagined that we would turn into just another banana republic with an oversize army?

For me it comes down to the fact that we can't stand still as a society, and that's what the bailouts are trying to accomplish.

Either we let the free market work its magic-with all that entails, job loss, job creation, massive upheaval in industries, displacement of people from onle section of the country to another. OR, we try to make time stand still, with all that entails, stopping change and innovation, locking those at the lower end of the income spectrum into their lives, further cementing the status quo.

For example, look at the economic team Obama has assembled. Why should a reasonable person think that they will have any insight into the situation that deviates from doing everything in their power to retain their place in the economics "heirarchy"? They are part of the problem-they have nothing to do with the solution, which is allowing the free market to work its painful yet creative magic.

I'm confident of two things-first, that if we allowed the market to operate that our culture would work the past excesses out of the system over the next few years, and we would have a stronger economy than ever, and second, that there is not a chance in hell this will be allowed to happen. I thought of one other thing-this blog software is a classic example of something that needs creative destruction.

Yes, Rod, your friend Wendell Barry may very well have "explained far more lucidly and poetically than" you did - for you didn't "explain" any connection whatsoever. You merely stated your belief that there is one.

And yes, I did read the blog post - in its entirety. The sexuality thing seemd nothing more, less or other than an add-on typical of your 'the world is going to Hades in a handbasket' school of doom and gloom 'thought'.

If there Is a connection, feel free to make it, and then to support it with evidence, rather than merely linking to an old blog post (of your own, no less) that only re-iterates your worldview.

Meanwhile, I re-state, this post had nothing (i.e. nada, zip, rien, nichts) to do with sexuality.