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Really, the question on everyone’s mind is, “Where is this going, and when is it going to stop?” The point Joel Archenbach is trying to make is clear: If people were either responsible with their money or coerced into being irresponsible, at what point is it the tax-payer’s responsibility to bail out Wall Street in the name of trickle-down? From the article:

“I’ve been financially responsible with my own money. Why should I now be responsible for the fact that you were not?” he said.

This may be a Main Street bailout backlash in the making. The details of the financial crisis are still hard for most people to follow — what with talk of exotic “derivatives” known as “credit-default swaps” and so on — but the central fact of the matter hasn’t been lost on anyone in this Northern Virginia community: The taxpayers are on the hook for the bad judgment of others.

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The world that can be constructed is not true.
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