Stockholders have just voted. The bailout was extremely important to the financial health of the country, or so they apparently believe.
--------------- NEWS ALERT from The Wall Street Journal Sept. 29, 2008 The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged more than 500 points as the the final votes were tallied in the bailout vote in the House and the bill appeared short of the votes needed to pass. The package, which would have marked the most dramatic federal intervention in the financial markets since the Great Depression, was finalized Sunday after days of exhaustive negotiations between lawmakers and the White House.
