Youre being optimistic   Anyway its not just the bailout Im talking about its overall government action  And the crap the Bushites are spewing that no one could have foreseen this mess is demonstrably false it was predicted by a number of people most of whom were amateurs labelled as Cassandras as well as by a few evil liberal economists  The bottom line is that no one wanted to see what was happening much like in the late s  The irrational exuberance that swept the country very much meant that a belief that the good times would never end proved to be stultifying for so many  In some ways this response was due to the emotional despression that gripped the US in the aftermath of  and it was in some ways a see were back on top response