Thanks for the insight Ricatic; I think living there has given you more perspective than the vast majority of us, for whom it's easy to develop an "out of sight, out of mind" way of thinking when NOT confronted with empty buildings and ghost towns in our daily life.
I usually try to stay out of these type of discussions/arguments, but I shudder to think of what may have happened had the bailout not occurred.
Sometimes understanding the reasoning of certain things involves looking deep, well beyond the obvious, and for some that's not an easy thing to do.
A lot of society desperately craves a black & white life and struggles with the grey.
