What regular Americans want is different than what this government stands for

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Ezra Klein, on the Bankruptcy bill:

Most of us already knew that about half of bankruptcies are precipitated by crushing medical emergency, though I'd no idea such innocuous and understandable trials as job loss and divorce made up for the rest. But isn't it weird that the answer to bankruptcy from medical bills and job loss was to make it, well, harder to declare bankruptcy?

If the Bush administration had wanted to end bankruptcies, they could have offered federal reinsurance for catastrophic medical costs. You would've ended half the bankruptcies right there. If they'd wanted to do more, they could have instituted better unemployment insurance and transitional services and shrunk the crowd of spurned creditors to negligible numbers. But they didn't. When given the choice of achieving X (where X is reducing the costs of bankruptcies) through helping Americans or helping industry at the expense of Americans, they chose the latter.

I am so tired of ranting about the Bush administration's outrages. We lost the election -- what did we expect was going to happen? They're wankers and worse.

I'd rather help focus on what the Democrats stand for. Klein focuses on that in the second paragraph above.

More importantly, he contrasts the difference between what regular Americans value and what this government represents.

The difference is shocking and should be talked about every day.