It has been a long time since we have seen the DOW drop below 10,000 points but if the numbers hold up right now, we will finish under that benchmark today. The bailout was suppose to help the stock market regain its strength, but we haven’t seen that yet. I don’t think we should have approved the bailout and the people on Main Street shouldn’t have to bail out the folks on Wall Street. They say that Main Street will be affected if Wall Street is not doing well but they seem to forget it works both ways. If Main Street isn’t doing well that will hurt the companies and people investing in Wall Street. It’s a two way street and things won’t get better until we realize this. The bailout was for the rich people in our country and we have the poor to middle class people helping the rich stay richer. They are trying to cover our eyes in this financial crisis, but the folks on Main Street have been in a crisis for a long time now. Who is going to step up and bail these folks out?

We need a system in place that treats all parties equal. Bailing out the rich people in this country is not the way to do it and the Stock Market is reflecting that today. If a company is not strong enough to stand on its own two feet; then it needs to go under. We can’t ask the people living paycheck to paycheck to help the rich stay richer or put a band aid on failing companies. It might hurt us in the short term, but we will be much stronger in the long term. Don’t bail out anymore companies and no company is too big to fail. AIG should have gone under and it wasn’t a good idea to bail them out. Let the economies all over the world struggle right now and let’s begin laying solid foundation and we can all sleep better at night.