Crunch

[Sean]

Originally Posted by BrotherLovesDub

i love when rich people suffer.

Unfortunately, this isn't about rich people suffering - it's about all of us. The market lost 1.3 trillion dollars yesterday. That's not just the money of rich people, that's all of our retirement accounts, investments, etc. disappearing at a rate of, if I remember what I heard correctly, 2 billion dollars a minute yesterday afternoon.

That aside, I can't say I love it when "rich people suffer", myself. I guess I never associated "rich" with "bad". I've known many rich people who are very good indeed, and don't deserve to suffer any more than the rest of us non-rich folks do.

Personally, I don't like the idea of bailing out these companies that have created the problem we're in to begin with. But as far as I can tell, not bailing them out would actually hurt all of us even more than what happened yesterday. We need to do it smart and fast.