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As a follow up to my previous post on this subject, it seems that the US Federal Reserve decided it would be good to bail out more companies and the Treasury will fund those bailouts. Why isn't anyone up in arms about this?

Lehman Brothers wasn't bailed out, yet AIG was? If this situation isn't a perfect example of saving their own buddies, I don't know what is. The US Federal Reserve needs to be disbanded and we need to turn back to a proper monetary standard. You can't keep injecting cash (were does that come from?) into the market. Our currency is taking a dump again thanks to the government-banking complex. It is time the people take control and speak to your politicians. If enough of you speak up, things might get done.

Stop complaining and start acting. These bailouts are the wrong choice and it is the financial corporations that are making out like bandits from our own money. These companies should just die and let the market bare the results.

Before you say anything, I have a load of money in the stock market and it does cause me grief. It causes me more grief to watch our government continue to march towards socialism. The Federal Reserve has failed and the Tax Act of 1913 really screwed up this country. Time to go back to gold.

I try not to really step into politics that much on ASE Labs except when it comes to freedoms and digital matters, but I'm truly appalled at what the US government is doing with the financial institutions.

Let me give my thoughts on what I THOUGHT the USA was: I thought the the United States of America was a capitalist society. Granted, I understand that a pure capitalist society may harbor problems such as monopolies and such, which is why we have limits on such activity. Even so, business in America is capitalistic. Private entities own them and run them. Government DOES NOT own or run them. They may regulate some industries (utilities or things that provide life giving services like power and water), but all in all, they stay out of the way.

What the government proved when they decided to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is that it is a SOCIALIST entity. These two companies ARE private entities and as such the government should not get into their affairs to help them when THEY SCREWED THEMSELVES. Think about this, the government now owns those companies. See a problem with this? Or are you blinded by how well your stocks are doing now?

When big businesses don't need to worry about falling under due to bad choices or risk, what is the point of providing a good service to the market? The problem is the US government, not the closing of these two companies. If these two companies were destined to close, then so be it. They are private and it is their problem, NOT THE TAX PAYERS. Do not throw me the line about how the economy will suffer. What you need to understand is that the people that decided to bail these companies out ARE IN BED with the group that controls the money. Everyone on the board of those companies should be indicted and the Treasury secretary needs to be removed and perhaps charges be brought against him. This is absolute lunacy when the people let things like this slip by unnoticed. The board of those companies should not walk free.

Letting these things pass by is the start of very, very bad things for this country. Call your politicians now and let them know that you are NOT in favor of turning America into a socialist country. I know I'm making the call to all of them in my state.

I do not enjoy watching my country that I grew up knowing that it is the best country in the world fall by the government-banking complex. Break this trend now, let the country go back into capitalism and stop these banking bailouts.