Rosa Brooks
Feb. 19th, 2009 07:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lsandersonWe need a bailout too
U.S. corporations and banks keep putting their hands out for more bailout money from Congress. Does giving them more do the rest of us any good?
U.S. corporations and banks keep putting their hands out for more bailout money from Congress. Does giving them more do the rest of us any good?
Back in the Great Depression, the song "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" epitomized all the hurt that was going around:
Once I built a railroad, I made it run, made it race against time.
Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
There's been some inflation since the 1930s. Today's panhandlers don't humbly ask passersby for a dime. Instead, they go to Congress and ask for a spare $22 billion or so. More
