So is the intended end result to make American Workers so desperate

[Skwmom]

that they'll be willing to accept low wages, no benefits, and lousy working conditions?

This economic crisis could be the end of the middle class dream.

Of course, on the bright side they are saying that just like after the S&L debacle, a lot of fortunes are going to be made off of distressed properties. Of course, it's the wealthy investors sitting on the sidelines until Geithner unveils his "plan" who are expected to reap the windfall.

[TwilightGardener]

1. If the GOP was still at the helm, unions would be dead--they'd use disaster capitalism

to do them in. Along with who-knows-what-else: Pell grants, unemployment benefits, SCHIP...they'd kill just about everything except the DoD, using the Great Recession as an excuse to dissolve it all.

[bdamomma]

2. plus the repigs are afraid that Obama's program will work

so the longer they stonewall they want the American people to loose their jobs, thus by repig thinking want us to run to the repigs and vote for them again, oops, have they got that all wrong.