Populist Solution to Financial Crisis

Rebuild Main Street not Wall Street.

We need a populist solution to the financial crisis. Such a solution would give taxpayers' money directly back to taxpayers who need it; it would not give any more to corrupt corporations. We need citizens' welfare, not corporate welfare.

Wall Street doesn't get it. It claims that Main Street is so interwoven with Wall Street that what's good for Wall Street is good for Main Street. Unfortunately, the problem is that what's good for Wall Street is bad for Main Street, and suddenly nobody outside of Wall Street wants to keep that corrupt system going. The defeat of the bailout package in the House of Representatives was a combination of ideology and practicality, a vote by fiscally responsible conservatives who couldn't take it anymore, and prudent liberals listening to the avalanche of outraged emails from constituents. It was a vote of no-confidence in the privatized financial system.