In an earlier stage of life I worked at RadioShack, when they actually sold electronics and radio equipment. One of my co-workers was a ham radio enthusiast and would spend hours talking about the rise of the Amiga and how it would come back. It was always just a few months away from releasing a new OS or platform. I would wager if I went back to that store... Or perhaps the store that replaced it, since RadioShack is just a shell of its former self he would still extoll the virtues of Amiga and it's imminent resurgence. Then he'd mutter about how Gateway killed it because the technology was too advanced for the average PC user to accept.

Wow, so you have never heard of innovation, ingenuity, or wealth generation. Rags to riches? I am sorry you have been brainwashed to believe these things about Capitalism. Capitalism allows wealth to be generated from nothing but the application of ones mind and hard work carried out by ones hands.

Yeah, well I have seen the values of my investments plummet +30% but I am in for the long haul. Many people lived through the Great Depression and look what happened to this country afterwards. Was there ever a time in American history that proved to be more inventive and innovative than the period of time during and after WWII? We are namby pambys today. A bit sad actually. I don't want government bailing anyone out. It prolongs the failure and spreads out the misery.

I say... Frig em all. The people who lent the money who couldn't pay back the loans. Thinking they would be able to sell the home for a profit all the while taking out more mortgages and buying new cars and flatscreen TVs. Those of us who were repsonsible and didn't take part in the excess are getting reamed. We are the ones who need to be rewarded, in the form of lower taxes. Not GIVING money away to those who failed. Capitalism fails if you reward the losers and punish the winners.