$700 billion Bailout: An ethical solution?
Those lawmakers who have turned down the proposed bailout plan argued that their constituents’ taxes should not be given to Wall Street for its foolish excesses. What the Congress should do, according to them, is to pass legislation that will protect the taxpayers while assisting with bad assets and allow the market to correct itself.
The traders, speculators, and hedge funds have been encouraging people to save and invest for retirement and security for the future. These people did nothing wrong—they just put their money on investments. They were urged to put a big amount of their savings into the stock market. And because at the time, the market was not at high levels, it seemed sensible to put a great sum of money in broad and foreign indexes as well as small and large cap indexes.
It seems now that their future is in danger, thanks to the real estate credit crunch. The crisis should have been prevented before it got worse, but nobody ever saw its effects. Most of them thought that the economy can bounce back from the crisis, as it has done in the past. Now the people are feeling the loss. Their only mistake is to invest their money and other assets, but they are the ones who are greatly affected.
One can blame it on the casino-type operations of financial institutions. Because of their arrogance to gamble on subprime mortgages, they have created liabilities beyond what everyone expected. What’s worst is that this crisis has taken away their peace of mind. Today they are left in the dark thinking about their future and the money they have invested. The people behind this economic onslaught now hope that a $700 billion bailout plan would be passed so that they could go on their devious ways yet again. It turns out, they also want trillions more for their Wall Street Buddy System Fund. It’s true that we have survived housing crisis in the past. But this time, it’s much harder to rebound because of too many factors that include credit-default swap bets.
The US Treasury even insisted that there should be no compensation caps for executives of companies being bailed out by the farmers, the schoolteachers, the medical doctors, and the regular factory workers because banks just wouldn’t participate in the bailout.
What if this financial plan is catered to the homeowners themselves and not to the big financial institutions? Perhaps if the government buys properties instead of bailing out banks and other financial lenders, then it is possible that the house market and the debt associated with it will stabilize. Of course, the price will always be a major issue. But it has been done before. And farmers know the system all too well.
If the government will not act properly, then the effects of this crisis will be far worse than it is today. At the bottom of this credit crunch are the individuals who work hard each day to save some money for their future. We may never know how long they will last in their present jobs. After all, lots of companies are closing down, leaving hundreds of employees jobless. These people could only rely on the savings when matters turn from bad to worse.
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