What do you think of the government's bank "stress tests"?

The governement needs to do a stress test on the tapayers. The banks have plenty of money and reserves. Not another tax dollar to any bank. Let them fail like the auto companies.

Just another "money grab" by the "Democratic Den of 435 Thieves" to better line their pockets with big raises and bonuses..We have the sorriest bunch of socalled leaders in our history .!!

Spoken like a true uniformed neocon repubnik who lets right wing talk radio do their thinking for them.

Hey Obama....get rid of summers or just go to the blah blah blah bank of the people. This is where we have the money to pay the extreme money paid to an incompetant executive work force. As Warren Buffet said, "a good economist is one that guessed right".

This is seeming more like the last administration, "laws dont apply to the top 1 percent"!

I agree with you Bob.... seems like Bryanb likes Socialism. Let's help out everyone else with MY hard-earned money. I bet you are one of those receipiants aren't you. If you like the bail out process.... then YOU bail out the banks and everyone else with YOUR money!

You can have your CHANGE TO SOCIALISM!

You know Bryanb, although I laughed at the term "repubnik", the repubnik's point does bring out something that cant be denied.

Too much emphasis is being placed on one side of the seesaw and not enough on the other. At what point does this cause a break?

This is not as much socialism as it is failed capitalism. These people that thought the "fox"could be trusted to do the right thing in the hen house were the fox. Just look at how a mojority of the "major corporations" are working to protect the excutives pay regardless of performance. Look at the financial institutions that are spending my "forced bail out" money to lobby congress. Remember them, the guys that we the people elected to represent us.

Just say, "NO"!  Banks have been screwing the public for years, paltry returns on savings accounts, admin fees, excessive overdraft fees and lousy shareholder returns to investors.  It is time to start paying back to the taxpayers where all the money comes from anyway.  I am disgusted hearing about "government bailouts", the government uses taxpayers money since it has none of it's own and neither do the Obamas.

If anyone thinks our banking/government finance/Federal reserve really knows what their doing besides getting themselves rich, I have a great deal on some beachfront property for you........................

I went to the Post Office today. If anyone has any illusions that Federal Government knows what they are doing; then visit the post office. And they gonna raise rates again.

Blind leading the blind.

BETTER than 1929

The Bank officers are supposed to be doing their job, which is to make money for the bank. Since they are not ... FIRE THEM AND GET SOMEONE WHO CAN PERFORM. This stress test is just a way of softening up the taxpayers so that BIG BANKS can get government handouts. WELFARE IS FOR PEOPLE WHO NEED IT FOR BASIC HUMAN NECESSITIES, NOT TO ACCOMMODATE A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR LIFESTYLE.

There is NO common sense in any of this BAILOUT WELFARE?

Hey we all need a bail out, the little people not the big banks tath got us into this mess. HELP OUT the people that earn the money not the ones that WASTE it all. give us the 10 Billion dollar relief and prosacute the bankers and Govt officials that let it happen. this is TREASON against the PEOPLE of this country it's not just a mistake or something that happened. it's GREED

Let them fail just like the small businessmen.......Everyone should be treated the same....

postal service----- buy up the "FOREVER" stamps. post cards will be .28 cents......

I think these "stress tests" are useless. Who can say which loans will go bad and which won't? Our economy is so complex that no one can say what is going to happen even in the next few months.

Just Like I read somewhere before: "If the banks are to big to fail, They're too big to exist."

I hope the intention of the stress test is not: if Bank X needs $20B to survive the recession, then we the taxpayers will lend that amount to them... other than that, it really seems meaningless what the actual point of the stress test may be.

I need a Bailout!!! But Im not greedy I dont want billions or millions; 100k will do just fine for me and Ill never ask for another penny.

I agree with captain mark its treason and greed.

I dare Obama to consult me on such matters as someone needs to stand up for the American Public because our reps. aren't helping us!

We need a new slogan...Howabout too small to fail. These fat cats just keep goin to the trough any time they need (want) money. Meanwhile the small businesses that enrich the average americans life is forced out of business. For instance what does AIG do for you on a daily basis????? (Don't get me started on insurance companies) NOTHING they don't benefit ANYONE, on an ongoing basis that is, except politicians who get their PAC money.... Meanwhile the small businesses we count on every day (the neighborhood restaurant, or hardware store etc...) just fall by the wayside while their tax dollars go to corporations. companies that that gets bailout money shouldn't be allowed to make political contributions. What happened when GM announced at the end of Q408 that they would no longer be making political contributions???? BHO decided they needed new leadership. We need to wake up!! P.S. I was in the banking business for 7 years (just a peon) and I saw what was coming. I am shocked that we aren't calling for revolution... Apathy is the new american way I guess....