Everyone Paying Attention Yet?

Voters unite! People need to watch the VP debate tonight; I know this is a change. The Vice Presidential debates usually don’t matter at all, remember Quayle? However, I did a little research to see where our candidates stand; nothing too shocking out of fourteen issues I knew where Biden stood, and mostly where Palin does except well they only has stances on eight of the fourteen issues. I have to admit my interest in this is the same as my interest in crappy television. I just can’t look away. I am wary of having too low expectation, but I really would like Biden to just stare at Palin when she says something stupid like a little kid who absolutely, positively, one hundred percent sure, that there are monsters or nuclear missiles under the bed.
The Senate passed the bailout, but what happened to the predicted restrictions? I thought this was going to be for a smaller sum; I am for it regardless, but I think we need some serious supervision over this money. I am not going to pretend that I know a lot about this. I am bad with numbers and have only begun developing my distrust of financial institutions. I am aware of a few things: people made the conscience decision to create this mess with what amounts to a get rich quick scheme (bad loans), innocent people are suffering too (those tricked into bad loans and the rest of us who have nothing to do with it), and finally something needs to be done. I’m not so concerned about the “CEO bad guys” getting their hands on this money; my concern is why people haven’t started going after these people legally. I want to see frozen assets; I want these people who are essentially white collar criminals doing time.

Both articles are from the New York Times...