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"Insulating Main Street from Wall Street" Means America's Keys in Wall Street's Pocket

http://www.opednews.com/articles/...-fr-by-Paul-Lehto-080928-334.html

Excerpt:

We all know that insulation cuts both ways: it keeps heat in and cold out (in home insulation), but it also keeps cold in and heat out (an insulated Thermos). In other words, insulation is a wall, a barrier -- and it’s always non-transparent, keeping something away from something else.

With the modified bailout proposal announced today as “agreed” to by Congressional leaders of both parties, House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi chillingly emphasized that one of the “achievements” of the modified bailout is that it “insulates Main Street, and everyday Americans, from the crisis [created by] Wall Street.”

We know for certain who’s going to feel the financial heat: the American taxpayer. Yet this proposal also leaves the American people out in the cold at the very same time, the accountability and control they get is even less than the ridiculously unaccountable original proposal.