Depression!! Run for your lives! or jump depending on your finances
Bear Sterns is not the usual bank, they don't handle checking accounts for your 40 hour work week. This is a heavy hitter and you are bailing them out.
So when does a republican administration and all of its casualties become a democratic administration to repair those casualties? When your tax dollars bail out banks. Admit it - you never thought of it that way, but you die-hard give me my tax dollars republicans get duped all the time.
And we are all paying for a 3 billion dollar a week social program in Iraq, and if the borrow and spend for the war isn't enough, you are paying a percentage tax on your gas, POW! Again you are paying for the war and now a poorly run bank and others may follow. The money has to come from somewhere, China, South America, who knows what slimy deals Bush is making. He had nothing but bad business decisions before he was in the white house and has made nothing since.
This just in: a cure for blindness has been discovered; blindly vote for Republicans and leave them around long enough and at some point you will see......

