Blocking bailout poses greater danger

September 30, 2008

There have been few times in our history when the president and the members of Congress must make choices whose consequences are uncertain. The proposed bailout is one of them ("First a deal, now the vote," Sept. 29).

Those of us who oppose action - who feel we should ride out the storm - should heed the words of President John Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis: "Let no one doubt this is a difficult and dangerous effort on which we have set out. No one can see precisely what course it will take. ... But the greatest danger of all would be to do nothing." George Lucien GregoireBaltimore

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