where does it end?

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I'm not even asking in a philosophically demoralized sense...but how much farther will the government keep going to prop up the economy? The House bill failed because many thought it went too far, at least in the case of some reasonable conservatives...and now the only change the Senate bill introduces that is really of any substance is an increase in the FDIC insurance limits. So. Just out of pure fascinated and bemused curiosity...how much farther is this extension of public risk mixed with "private" gain going to go? One thing I am sure of; the societal entity that is going to suffer the most is the perception of the validity of capitalism. Our market system in the US is cast as a free market...but nothing is or has been farther than the truth.

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