As the government tries to figure out the so called "Wall Street/Bank" $700 Billion Bailout, there is a lot of talk on how we must keep the "spigot running" for fear of the credit markets will stop operating normally.

It occurs to me that perhaps operating normally is not what we need or want. Didn't normal credit operations get us into this mess in the first place?

Maybe if we allowed credit to tighten, and people actually had to save up for things before being able to buy them, that savings mentality would carry over to the government - and we could start to climb out from under the $9.7 Trillion in debt we have (that's about $31,000 per person in the US, which woud rise by about $2,300 per person if the Bailout passes)