I was 
watching that story unfold about that 700 billion dollars bail-out, and I was just thinking, hey, maybe all they need is a washing machine.
I saw the political theatre of American presidential elections where a presidential candidate suddenly presented himself as a champion of “Main Street”, and I thought, hey, maybe all he used was a washing machine.
I read that the US president had been talking to the French president about the financial problems, and for a second I thought that maybe, they both really needed a washing machine. Or rather a freedom machine.
And, then I ended up looking at this excellent YouTube video of a live performance of Sonic Youth’s ‘Washing Machine’. For a second, it reminded me of that concert I attended in the early 90s and I thought by myself, what one can do with cloth pins.