George Dubya Bush said that he’s “abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system,” but there’s a problem with abandoning your principles in order to save them:  in the process of saving them, you’ve, uh…abandoned them!
Not surprisingly, this “necessary” bailout that is supposed to prevent disaster by sprinkling people with magic money that solves all problems and has no negative consequences has had some negative consequences.  Note to big-government liberals:  this is what happens when you take ideas off of paper and put them into action in the real world.
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