My wife made a wonderfully insightful comment this morning. She suggested that the reason the proposal by Paulson was so light on content and demanded no oversight was to shift the debate away from whether or not we should have a $700 billion+ bailout to a debate about how we are going to do it.
We talked back and forth about what letters we should write to our congresspeople and my letter was just over 2000 characters long. I think that the message she chose to send after careful consideration was exponentially more effective and succinct: If you vote for this bill I will not vote for you in the next election. It captured what I was trying to say in very powerful way.
I have long thought that she is smarter than I am and this is just another example of why. You can see why I love this woman.
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Not smarter, just less "time-consuming".
Wife
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