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For a concise explanation, and namecheck for Bremner, Bird and Fortune, who always help me get my head round stuff..

My Dad wants to know why the Government couldn't guarantee everyone's savings, up to the amount they put in (their "Stake" if you will) and after that... let these greedy fuckers go to the wall.. It's either Free-Market or it isn't. If the Government wanted to lend money to get businesses through, why didn't they lend it to the businesses, and stop propping these people up?

Makes me want to weep when I consider that we used to have huge industries, that the government refused to prop up with even tiny sums of money, compared to these huge "Golden Lifebelts"
(Beer Elf Thought this was like a campfire, anyhow, on, Fri 23 Jan 2009, 10:25, Reply)