Jim Rogers (via Division of Labor):

Why are we bailing out Citibank? Why are 300 million Americans having to pay for Citibank’s mistakes? The way the system is supposed to work, Mark: People fail. And then the competent people take over the assets from the failed people, and then you start again with a new stronger base. What we’re doing this time is, they’re taking the assets from the competent people, giving them to the incompetent people, and saying ”Okay, now you can compete with the competent people.” So everybody’s weakened: the whole nation is weakened, the whole economy is weakened. That’s not the way it’s supposed to work. … All these homeowners who did nothing wrong are now being forced to pay for the people who did crazy things …