If you haven’t said it yourself, chances are a family member or friend has: “When are they going to come and bail me out?” Mostly we’ve been thinking about the proposed $700 billion buyout for the financial industry (yes, when it started out it was a buyout for the American mortgage industry but now apparently it includes just about any big corporation, anywhere in the world, whose CEO ever had lunch on Wall Street). But when the capitalist politicians explain to you in their oh-so-patient way that the bailout is really a unique event to deal with a specific problem and that therefore you don’t get any of it, remind them about the $25 billion U.S. automaker bailout that the congress just voted on and that Bush signed into law. [continued at Two Good Hands]