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Consider the results of a poll conducted last weekend and reported Tuesday by the Pew Research Center. There’s a reductio ad absurdum quality to the central question Pew asked, which was this: “As you may know, the government is potentially investing billions to try and keep financial institutions and markets secure. Do you think this is the right thing or the wrong thing for the government to be doing?”
Right? Wrong? The debate is less about the investment than about the terms. Concerning those, good men and women might not only disagree but pummel each other with alpenstocks.
So, who should lead us out of this mess? Or as Pew put it, “Regardless of which candidate you prefer, which candidate do you think could best address the problems investment banks and companies with ties to the housing market are having?”
