Taxpayers' cart put before bankers' lame horse!

Last night on Channel 4 News there was a chap from the Leek Building Society talking to Jon Snow. Snow is like Paxman. He can spot waffle and weasle words. The chap in question (didn't get his name) said he thought this injection of taxpayers' money was a "start". Jon Snow, asked him how much money was required. "If you're going to drop cash in the ocean, how much is needed?" The answer seemed less than satisfactory, but he did say one thing that I thought, well, that sums it all up.

This money is to rebuild confidence. Apparently, it's all down to us, the suckers who feel we can't trust the banks. It's all our fault! We should be thinking more positively. House prices aren't falling, it's all a bad dream. But when this money finally comes across from the sticky fingers of Mervyn King and his coffer keepers, we are all to be good boys and girls. Be thankful and think good things!

Are these bankers completely devoid of a culpability brain cell? "Oh, we did no wrong. We just lent to fools like you!" So now they get bailed out by us, yes US, the taxpayers. Want to know where the 10p tax band's gone. Into the pot, to be cooked up with some other delectable ingredients, such as stealth taxes and VAT increases.

It's about time, as Ron Paul keeps telling Americans, that we took our country back. It's not Alistair Darling's money, Mervyn King's money, it's OUR MONEY!! Billions going into propping up a financial system that has all the hallmarks of the South Sea Bubble! Well, it's popped and we need to make sure they don't get greedy, risky, and reckless again.