Organized crime that is overtly sanctioned by the US Government (Wall Street) is no different than organized crime that isn't overtly sanctioned by the US Government (Mafia)...both consider it nothing personal, its just business!

Wall Street speculators are using taxpayers' bailout money to speculate on commodities, thereby driving food and fuel prices up as more people have less money to spend on food and fuel.

If only.

Most American minds are filled with toxic slop, like what's 'Li Lo' up to; watching 'Lady GAG GAG' videos and anxiously waiting to watch the upcoming 'STUPID BOWL.'

When the national pastime is sitting on the couch, staring at the 'Boob Tube' and eating endless amounts of potato chips, washed down with diet soda--gotta watch that weight!!--there's not much hope for enlightenment.

Why are you defending the government? Government = Corporations, Corporations = Government. War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.

There is no line between the government and the multinationals, the banks, the insurance companies. Its not a joke, they're not crazy. They're just doing what they do best.

Humor and odd characters aid memory and comprehension. Should the public believe the little bears or the politicians? Who seems more trustworthy, the little bears or Obama, Boehner, McCain, Biden, Reid, McConnell?

I didn't see any "libertarian" slant to the discussion, but rather an honest report of the government's collusion with corporate America against the People, or perhaps more accurately, the Sheeple.

Perhaps next the little bears could discuss America's perpetual mass murder of innocent children, women, and men in the name of "freedom" and "democracy." See Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia, and hopefully Saudi Arabia and the rest or America's puppet dictatorships.

"But more importantly, it frames the issue in the "libertarian" manner where "government" is the bogeyman, instead of the corporations and banks"

Please listen to the video again especially the part about who owns the government. And an explanation of the term libertarian is always needed with that word since it is so inexact.

Finally, there were alternatives to just a blanket bailout-similar to sorting dirty laundry, or rummage sale items, a sorting job needed to be done with the financially failed ( and still failed) banks' assets as opposed to those who were under a cloud of panic but still had some value on the books, some of the banks had assets that had value, some had SO CALLED assets with value of close to zero-the books of all the banks needed to be redone to show the reality of the situation. The banks who came up as insolvent (over half of those in the TARP) should have been dissolved, put under new leadership or broken up. The bailout could have been done much more systematically so that we could see what the reality is-that so many of the monstrosities known as big banks are often paper shells where a lot of money moves around. We mistake the movement on the interior of these entities as signs of life when in fact they are rotting corpses swinging in the wind.

Our ever so wise Congress has slipped us a deal that should allow more $40,000 desks to overinflate on Wall Street--
"Banks scored a win yesterday as the Federal Accounting Standards Board backed off on attempts to force them to calculate their loan values using market values."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/26/mark-to-market_n_814228.html

Wall Street and The Federal Reserve and the Congress continue to imbibe their own special brand of Kool-Aide

What a ridiculous comment. "The Ben Bernank" is now such a commonly used term that it even appears regularly in my daily e-mails from my bank!