I just noticed the response to my previous post in this thread -

As has been noted by another poster a couple of posts before mine, it was the Republican, Bush administration that said if our Congress didn't pass the bill, the country would be totally destroyed forever. While I'm not happy with the fact that the Democrats allowed themselves to be snowed by this rhetoric from Bush, the bailout is, nevertheless, a Republican initiative, and the votes on the bill in the Senate did not split along party lines (and my Democratic representative voted against it).

The Republicans have turned the United States of America into the ultimate nanny/welfare state.