I note your comments.

As a socia1ist, I have no love for the Democrats either, and if they f^cked up, they must be castigated too.

Neither do I have any affection for Wall Street. But I know that to let it fall would do unimaginable damage to the whole US economy

It's a global crisis and the health of the American financial system is the lynch-pin that everyone else's financial system is hung on