Karl, that is not what was being pointed out in the article. What the article said is that we need to stop bailing out rich ba$$tards because they are rich. The reason they are rich is because they made shady business decisions that should be illegal. I agree with that. If the "no money down" loans were never dreamed up, we would not be in this financial mess. However, someone saw a way to make money on it, had the rules on it relaxed (while chanting the republican mantra "Regulation Bad, Deregulation Good", and there you have it. A spectacular meltdown of the Capitalist way. I don't care what anyone says, but Greed is never good.