Bailout should work from the bottom up
As the federal government rushes to save financial institutions with a rescue package that could reach a trillion dollars, government should also be helping the most economically vulnerable.
Instead of just rescuing those companies and individuals having the most, it should help those having the least.
Stimulating the economy is needed, but, such stimulus should work from the bottom up rather than just from the top down.
I believe strongly that we are our brothers' and sisters' keeper.
The government should be our agent for helping those needing it.
Families are struggling throughout the nation to provide food and shelter for themselves, fearful for their homes, their jobs, their life savings - only a paycheck from financial disaster, looking at a bleak and uncertain future.
Boosting the economy requires more than a bailout of Wall Street.
Too often, money given to the most fortunate and temporarily inconvenienced doesn't "trickle down."
It merely adds to the wealth of the most fortunate with no benefit to the general welfare. They escape financial ruin with a golden parachute - a golden parachute that would provide relief for millions. Is this the American dream?
We are a community, not isolated individuals. We should be for all Americans, for all people.
Country first? How about humanity first?
Herb Best
Streamwood