Quote Originally Posted by Melicious View Post
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Someone finally hit it on the nail. Now, I DO NOT support the bailouts at all. My question to y'all is this: Where's the blame on these people who were buying houses well beyond their means? If they were STUPID enough to buy into these things, then they deserved to fall. "Oooh, the big, bad banks! OH my goodness! Ooooh, the big, bad Realtors, Oooooh!" Get a bite of reality, please. Persuasive or not, these people are adults and they made poor decisions which forced them into poor positions in life. That's like saying that it's all the drug dealer's fault that a kid overdosed. The drug dealer may have been pressuring the kid, but the kid still bought it and the kid was negligent of his/her life. Same with the adults.
The problem with this line of reasoning regarding the bank bailouts is that we're not just talking about bailing out a few individuals....we're talking about bailing out the entire US economy, which affects not just hundreds of millions of US citizens, but also vast global economies.

Yes...there are a number of individuals to blame, I believe, for what happened in the banking world. (Bankers and government officials, both) And I sincerely believe those individuals should somehow be held accountable for their choices. But bailing out the banks is not about them. If the government were to allow their actions to continue without correction, the fall-out would not just affect those individuals....but millions and millions of people...most likely including you and me and just about everyone reading this thread.