The urgency of now, mixed with the troubles of today.

As I have been watching the news over the past week, I notice all too often how quick our representatives in congress have been to pat themselves on the back. The official bailout plan (or stimulus package, depending on what side of the aisle you are on) is, in my opinion, a last resort to resolve a situation that should have never been allowed to happen to begin with. Ever since it’s passing, you see congressmen and senators sitting on the steps on the Capital Building, high fiving each other for cleaning up a mess that they themselves made. Granted, this plan is the best solution for the worst situation, and if continued untreated would ultimately bring down the entire world economic infrastructure. However, these people who let greed corrupt them should when this is all said and done, pay more for their lapses in judgment than the ones who were fiscally responsible enough and had enough foresight not to get themselves into that mess in the first place. This may have been a necessary solution, but ultimately if the greed driven people get to stay in their half million dollar houses when they should have only been able to afford a two hundred thousand dollar one, and the responsible everyday honest Americans have to pay for that very same house out of their pockets, it is a mockery of the whole system. It’s not the Wall Street big wigs that are responsible for this who upset me, I expect it out of them, it’s the everyday Mr. And Mrs. Smith who thought they could get away with making their beds and not having to lie in them, and as it turns out, I guess they could.

~Nathan Coflin.