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While a quick $700 billion fix may steady the economy for the short term, the results will not yield long-term benefits. Financial institutions will surely continue their greedy ways once they know the federal government is financing them. Thus the problem will not be solved, but temporarily fixed. If the government simply bails out the financial institutions with no consequences, the mess will be left for our generation to clean up.

—Erin Brown

I love the idea of this $700 billion bailout. I hope the next time I go to a casino, the federal government decides that my carelessness with my money warrants their saving my risky ass. Since when did the government become an insurance company that backs risky loans? Did I miss when this started? If I’d known about this even being a possibility, I would’ve invested all of my money in one of these high-risk markets and would be able to pay off college in no time. None of them deserve any money.

—Ross Stewart

As far as I can tell, the insane privilege that this country affords big business got us into this mess, so it's only fitting that we hold the executives’ hands to get out of it.

A shady business model was exposed and Treasury secretary Henry Paulson suggested the taxpayers bear the $700 billion consequence. Without giving taxpayers share in ownership in return, the government would essentially be fundraising to protect the most powerful business leaders in the country from their bad decisions. Luckily, Congress reacted to Paulson's plan with similar skepticism. Though no deal has been reached, I worry that the fall-out plan will ask too much of us and too little of the people at fault.

—Sonya English

Financial disasters like this don’t just magically appear. It has been a long time coming because this nation has its priorities completely mixed up. We increase military spending to fight a war abroad when the real fight is in our wallets. As a nation, we need to learn not to live outside our means. If you can’t afford that brand-new plasma TV, taking out a loan you don’t ever plan on paying back isn’t a smart move. Just because the government likes to solve its problems by throwing money it doesn’t actually have at them doesn’t mean you should do the same. Let’s fix this thing ourselves instead of relying on more inept people to fix it for us. I’d like to be able to walk to campus without lugging a wheelbarrow full of cash with me just to pay for lunch at the Union.

—Michael Pope

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