Get yourself a shopping cart.

Editor,

Rescuing the ruling class is 180 degrees the wrong way for the U.S.A to go. Our rulers have demonstrated by their sheer stupidity that they are not fit to rule, so good-bye, bozos.

I see homeless people who have hurt no one pushing their belongings around in a shopping cart and sleeping on the street. If this is what becomes of people who "lose" the capitalist game, why are the morons who killed the goose that laid the golden egg still riding around in chauffeured limousines?

The right thing to do the instant Wall Street's phony baloney blew up in their faces was to pay the mortgages that victims of their interest rate time bombs could not pay. This would have cost 1/10,000th of the billions-going-to-be-trillions of taxpayer dollars we are watching disappear into the pockets of the rich.

Our financial betters tell us every day that "losers" here, in Mexico, Thailand, Cambodia, and a hundred other of their rip-off places on the globe just have to suck up their hard luck and stop complaining. So here's a little advice for them: get yourself a shopping cart. The taxpayers are going to take care of each other, and you are now living on the street.

re: "Bracing for a Bailout Backlash" (3/16/2009)