Your attempt at an analogy between a zero interest loan and a STD is a reach don't you think?

If someone wants to engage in unprotected sex, why should I and a few hundred million others have to foot the bill? That's like getting the "business end of the deal", trying to keep it family like here, and no kiss afterwords.

"Former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt said yesterday that he thought the writedowns were just beginning and urged the Financial Accounting Standards Board to close the loophole which allowed banks to keep their holdings off their balance sheets, Bloomberg reported."

This is a taxpayer problem how?

Does the name ENRON ring a bell?

Besides, if me and a few hundred million others have to foot the bill for this where is the other 'entitlement money' going to come from?

I understand how your mind works, but "communicable disease" and "STD" are not one in the same. Chicken pox, the common cold, flu, bird flu, equine flu, anthrax, staph, diptheria, small pox, etc. are communicable diseases that aren't necessarily the result of sexual contact. The larger point is conservatives seem to push a philosophy where everyone keeps their own money and contributes nothing to the needs of organized and civilized society. Next we will have private police and ambulance service since there will be no tax base to fund community servants. So what happens to the 6800 or so families on the bad end of foreclosures in Atlanta alone? Is there no safety net whatsoever? What is your solution? Remember, that death tax is number one on the conservative hit list, so I wouldn't count on that revenue in your solution.

Kevin "Hack" King