Why You Should Hate the Treasury Bailout Proposal
Perfect.
The only way taxpayers have a prayer of winning in this ("winning" in this case being defined as "not losing as much") is for this debate to be somewhat contentious.
I agree that the partisan finger pointing is kind of stupid at this point but these are politicians we are talking about. If they were competent, we wouldn't even have to be discussing a bailout right now.
A blank check with no oversight doesn't seem like much of a plan to me.
A deal will get done. Why rush and get a horrible one when we can wait a little and get off the hook with merely a very bad one?