"If the Fed can extend $30 billion to help Bear Stearns address their financial crisis," Hillary Rodham Clinton argued, "the federal government should provide at least that much emergency help to families and communities to address theirs." That's a savvy appeal to Americans' strong sense of fundamental fairness — that if goodies go to Wall Street, then they also should go to Main Street.

Voters, like buyers, should beware. You might think that Democrats oppos ...

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