At least your Social Security money was not used to "play with
stocks", as Bush and McCain wanted.

In 2006, McCain voted for the Social Security Reserve Fund. The
proposal would shift Social Securitys annual surpluses into a
reserve account that would be converted into risky private
accounts. [SCR 83, Vote #68, 3/16/06; SCR 83, Vote #68, 3/16/06]

By the way, the real issue with banks is that they have negative
equity due to fall in values of the securities that they hold
(mortgages) and high leverage.

So they are insolvent, in more simple terms.

Lending to them would not address this as it would not increase their
equity.

While the authorities are not saying word "insolvent" for obvious
reasons, they realized it and are considering giving money to these
insolvent banks to make them not insolvent.

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