This seems like such a no-brainer: the catchphrase is Golden Shower; which is a more accurate description of Reaganomics; the one about which Cheney said "We learned under Reagan that deficits don't matter."

Remember this whole bailout thing the next time someone criticizes Nader; he of the "Just say no to corporate welfare" statements. Gloss it with whatever one wishes: that's what this is: corporate welfare. I've seen junkies and meth addicts in my neighborhood and the results of their binges: toothless, wasted, staggering into the harm reduction clinics; and alcoholics on their last leg. People who go on binges like those suffer the consequences; but so do we.
But once they reach the bottom, as a society we do not tend to support their continued binging and self-destruction, lest we harm our commonality, our community, ourselves, in the future.

And that is exactly what will happen here: if we, we the culture and society, support these entities in their self-destruction, we will harm our selves; it may be over the long run, or it may happen over the short run. This model we've built is unsustainable.

One way or another, we will learn that lesson. That, to me, cannot be debated.

I only wonder to what extent, if any, this apparently broad support for the bailout indexes a proclivity to fascism among the population of those supporting a close relation between the state and private corporations.