The Bush Administration’s 700 billion-dollar bailout package is supposedly for increasing banking liquidity – i.e. make banks more confident in providing credit. But is it wise to use the American taxpayer’s money?
By: Ringo Bones
As a way of mitigating the worst effects of the US Credit Crisis - which has now become global, the Bush Administration gave the green light on the implementation of their 700 billion-dollar bailout plan. An overwhelming majority of American taxpayers now question the wisdom of using public funds to bail out the follies that was caused by Wall Street’s “Quixotic Adventurism” in pursuit of easy money. While many Americans are now beginning to understand that when major financial institutions are allowed to fail – like Lehman Brothers – the negative repercussions will surely be felt around the world. And the question now is the decision to use the American taxpayer’s money a wise choice? Those in the know will inevitably be saying: “But isn’t this tantamount to a nationalization that would inevitably transform the US banking system from a free market economy to a command socialist economy?” After all, this inevitability will surely undermine the ideological underpinnings of Wall Street’s perception of what free market capitalism should be – a paragon of the American Protestant Work Ethic.
Central banks around the world are now coordinating to implement a plan modeled after the Bush Administration’s 700 billion dollar economic bailout scheme – albeit at a more modest scale. This is due to the fact that the International Monetary Fund’s top brass’ praise of the Bush Administration’s economic bail out scheme as “the most sensible so far” in solving our current global economic crisis. Thus the taxpayers disdain of using public funds to bail out the excesses and adventurism of the banking sector is no longer confined to the United States.
If the taxpayers’ money ever becomes the financial too of choice by governments to bail out their ailing economies, then the majority of us taxpayers will inevitably be harboring resentment. Plus that ever increasing consensus that insurance companies make so much because they charge clients / their customers high premiums and then underplay or deny claims altogether. Some have even said that insurance companies are just daring us to fight back. Will incidence of insurers bad faith rear its ugly head on every government around the world attempts’ in alleviating our global financial crisis?
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I have doubts of the Bush Administration's 700 billion US dollar plan because it is tantamount to a military invasion reminiscent of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Will this result in a banking Abu Ghraib? The prospect of seeing someone like Army Specialist Lynndie England doing unspeakable things to my portfolio is enough to make me squirm. In my opinion, using taxpayers as insurance underwriters is about as lame as hiring practicing vegans as slaughterhouse / abbatoir health inspectors.
Looks like in the age of the "New Capitalism"; We, the taxpayer has now become a major player in the corporate world due to the fact that we are now the major funders of banks and other financial institutions.
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