[Looking at the word "bail out," I find several definitions, all of them apt to today's swamped economy:]

-To remove (water) from a sinking boat by repeatedly filling a container and emptying it over the side.
[So the taxpayer money, buying up debt and dumping it over the side of the boat is supposed to keep our sinking economy afloat?]
-To grant or obtain the liberty of (a person under arrest) on security given for his or her appearance when required, as in court for trial.
[But if it's public money standing as a security bond, who's going to guarantee that these fat cats stand trial?]
-To make a parachute jump from an airplane.
[Yes, that would be what investors are doing now: cutting losses and selling everything off now.]
-To give up on or abandon something, as to evade a responsibility: "His partner bailed out before the business failed."
[That's what these CEOs are doing.]
-To waylay or rob (someone)
[That's what's happening to the US taxpayers]
-To confine a cow for milking, as in a bail
[That's what's happening to us taxpayers too]

[And I like this definition best of all:]
-bails: (Obsolete) the wall of an outer court of a feudal castle
[All that "free market" nonsense was just until the going got tough -- then we show the kind of economy we _really_ are: "Resistance is feudal!"]

Source for definitions: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bail
[Commentary is original to the poster of this article.]

Vice Presidential Candidate Stewart A. Alexander, says the $700 billion rescue plan is only a temporary fix for an economy with many fractures. “The root cause of the U.S. economic crisis is the system, capitalism; and every 75 years a new bailout plan becomes necessary.”

There is no easy fix for the ailing U.S. economy, and Barack Obama and John McCain are not prepared to make the necessary changes that will protect the interests of working people. Comparing the economic plans of the two candidates, it does not matter whether McCain or Obama is elected in the 2008 Election; the economic programs that have been outlined by both candidates will only produce minor differences to the present Bush White House.