But only small business. I would even be willing to subsidize small business, but only small business.

It's the bigs that need reigned in.

You know what they say about faking sincerity.

But then you had to go ruin it and come out against tax cuts for business. You keep forgetting that most businesses are small, and that the business sector drives the economic engine in this country. They create our jobs, which in turn creates our wealth. We should be working WITH business, not against it, unless we're suicidal. Business tax cuts HELP. Liberals always act like business is the enemy. Dumb-da-da-dumb-dumb. I'm not on the Republicans side, per se, but I am on the side of American success. Making our businesses less competitive will NEVER lead to that success. Democrats are just WRONG on this issue (and many others).

Yes, King, I agree that it's not a fear tactic if it's true. We're being held hostage by AIG. They may, indeed, have our future in their hands. The point would then be….how did they get to be too big to fail?

It doesn't matter that Cramer is a Democrat. It has been his practice to carry water for the powerful Wall Street players for a long time….after all, he was one of those players.

25-30% of elected Democrats stand on the side of big monied interests. The corporate Democrats are a pox on the party….Clinton carried water for the big monied interests. All big money guys ain't Republican.

The political party with a big money platform of tax cuts for business and the wealthy plus deregulation with government staying on the sidelines….that would be the Republican Party.

Doesn't that counter the thrust of your post – that we are being held hostage through fear tactics ? It's not fear tactics if it's true.

"…..think Jim Cramer. Big-Money conservatives tell us all about how their side is oh-so-full of makers and movers……they make sh*t happen, by god…..they produce wealth….they are the capitalists….the doers, without which, we would all have a turnips-only diet."

Jim Cramer is a Democrat who voted for Obama. All the ranting and raving should have told you that. Your illusion of all the big money guys being conservatives is just that, an illusion.

Maybe to widen this a bit….somebody tell me why the DOW has risen 700 points in the last 6 sessions? I have my own opinion but I want to hear others.

I'm giving him til September….it is, after all, only 8 weeks in……to see where he takes the whole Bush-era military dictatorship regime.

People aren't good or bad. They do bad things. They do good things.

So far, Obama hasn't done anything to completely discredit his presidency after, you know, all of 2 months. I know that those who rage against the change machine, desiring of more of the same old recklessly, destructive, cowboy stuff, had seen enough before he took his oath. But you'll have that.

frank has an excellent question. I don't know for sure, but odds are the bonuses went to big time, mouse-clicking, traders…..think Jim Cramer. Big-Money conservatives tell us all about how their side is oh-so-full of makers and movers……they make sh*t happen, by god…..they produce wealth….they are the capitalists….the doers, without which, we would all have a turnips-only diet.

In truth, these same guys are nothing but crooks….crooks so full of them damnselves that they EXPECT us filthy working class folks to pay them a bonus for destroying the entire American economy. A collapse which will fall most heavily on authentic working families.

And the answer to frank's question about what level of failure would prohibit bonuses…..

No level of failure. None. These guys are the masters of the universe and every knee shall bow.