slacktivist: Some folks’ world – predatory rent increases in trailer parks.

Daniel Rubin: Daniel Rubin: The bailouts passed him by

Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought: How Depressions Work

NYTimes: Welfare Aid Isn’t Growing as Economy Drops Off

Suburban Guerrilla: Welfare Rolls Are Not Going Up. Why?

Yahoo!: Folding dealers shock car buyers with unpaid liens

NYTimes: Caring for the Caregivers

The Big Picture: Reinhart & Rogoff: Expect a prolonged slump

Dave Rogers: Market for Destruction: We are not consumers, we are the consumed.

Jon Stewart challenges Lawrence Lindsey and asks Lindsey about the viability of Stewart’s own plan – giving the bailout money to the people of the United States to pay of their debts, which in turn, brings liquidity back to the banks.

CNN Money Summit: Your questions answered “Why can’t we split the money among taxpayers?” – the answer is dismissive – that we would simply save the money and not spend it.

In what universe does that occur? Not America. It would get spent one way or another – and very, very quick.

Thanks to dangerousmeta for the common sense.

While something approaching libertarianism (letting the free market rule without reasoned oversight) got us into this – it just maybe something approaching libertarianism that gets us out.

As John Stewart and Garret say, “Give us the cash, let it trickle up.”