Have YOU taken the Pledge?

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3. That's where the 'Socialism' comes in.

David Feige explained the picture, back in '08:

Socializing Risk, Privatizing Profit

With an economic meltdown already in full swing, there is little question injecting some liquidity into the economy is a fine idea. Even doing so by buying a boatload of bad securities that no one seems to be able to properly value might not be fully idiotic, but doing so without taking an equity position in the firms being bailed out is just morally indefensible. Allowing greedy billionaires to suck down more cash like Schlitz from a frat house beer bong, sends all the wrong messages to Wall Street and the world: The United States has finally socialized risk, but privatized profit. And though that may be the Kleptocratic Bush administration's ultimate wet dream, it will ruin America in the long run.

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But did we listen? Well, I mean "We" as in our elected representatives? Nooooo.