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Couldn't happen to a more deserving group!  Should include Bush, Bernanke and Paulson.

And let's not forget Pelosi, Reid, and the rest of the Democrat majority in Congress.

what is all that greed and accumulation of wealth for????money is but a dream...if they  had helped the poor with that money, it would have not been lost.....it would be invested, instead it has evaporated like boiling water....

I can not say for certainty that the Ford family would have all their assets in Ford Motor Company, but if they do or did that are certainly stupid.  The first rule of investing is diversification, period.  I would think that they are still rather wealthy in relation to you and me.  Plus most of them have probably never have had to work in their respective lives.  Hurrah for the prolateriat, up with the masses, down with capitalism, here is to President Elect Obama and the Democrats wherever they are, SOCIALISM is the new government of and for of the People of America.  A HAND OUT FOR EVERYONE and ever STATE and CORPORATION / BUSINESS.

The rich who got to where they are now through hard work and being responsible with their money deserve everything they have and do not owe anything to those poorer than them. Those poor have the same opportunity to make a living for themselves as anyone else. You can argue all day about education and one parent families but it comes down to how badly do you want to make a good life for yourself. If you want it badly enough the resources are available to make it happen. I would rather see money invested and lost in a bear market then it given to poor families who use it to buy designer handbags and rims for their beat up car.