[Bring_Back_Shantz]

One of the things that kind of makes me laugh is how everyone is concerned that the burden for all of this is coming down on the lowly American taxpayer.

Keep in mind that this whole crisis was brought on by those same taxpayers getting themselves too far in debt and defaulting on their mortgages and other debts and causing the values of the securities against those mortgages to go into the toilet.

Yes not everyone was doing this, but there was clearly a large enough portion of the poplulation that was doing this that it would cause such a huge problem.

Also, I realize it is the banks fault for giving out all of those loans/mortgages to people that had no business getting them, but that's a bit of a chicke and egg arguement.