The House is expected to vote on the revised sweetened pork-laden Senate-approved version of the financial services bailout bill later today.
The graphic from the New York Times below provides a good geographic and political look at how the House’s first bailout vote on Sept. 29 went. Click on the image below (or here if you’re an RSS reader) for larger, and more complete, vote details.
House leaders swear that this time there will be no vote unless they are sure they have enough support to pass the measure.
While I grudgingly support the financial services components of the bill, in part because the hubby and I are hoping to retire sooner rather than later depending upon how our portfolio does, I understand the frustration many have with the bailout in general and also with the tax breaks added by the Senate.
If one could be dispassionate about money, it would be interesting to see our system work in a clinical fashion, with economic Darwinism thinning out not only Wall Street profligates, but also the shaky businesses and investments across the rest of the country. Not pretty and not fun, but interesting.
But then, who among us can truly be unemotional about money?
