Hey, congratulations! It looks like you’ve hit the "taxpayer lottery," and you’re going to get another couple thousand dollars in your pocket. Even better, the first $750 Billion is already spent, (only $60 billion is left) so we’re looking at another bailout package, but don’t worry, you won’t have to pay for it, your kids’ kids’ kids will.
If the feds have their way, you’ll receive another economic stimulus check (what did you do with the 1st one? Oh yeah, pay off that credit card debt), hopefully by the end of the year. This will add another $1.5 gabazillion to the national debt, and devalue the mighty dollar even further. Well, the bonus for all your anti-immigration Nazi friends, is that those illegals will remain in their own country then.
We’re hearing even more recent talk of an auto-maker’s bailout. Hopefully that idea continues to stall and dies a quick, painful death. Can someone tell me why we continue to support stupidity and stupid business models that reward laziness, gluttony and pathetic products? Admittedly, I wasn’t old enough in the 80′s to appreciate the Japanese revolution of the auto industry (I saw Mr. Mom though, does that count?), so I don’t appreciate fully the effects that had on the psyche of the American people. However, I do know that revolution had lasting effects on today’s economy and forced a mediocre industry to create an extraordinary product.
That’s the American Spirit. We fought and changed our system when the British wouldn’t acquiese to our demands. We forced society to recognize, and change a system of oppression and cruelty, we fought Communism and created social change in our own society. Why can’t we demand better from the people who serve us? Shouldn’t they be as concerned about our welfare as they are about their own bottom-line. That’s the same message to those on top, as it is to those on the bottom. Why do/have we let ourselves become a "hand-me-out" society? We think we deserve all these benefits and entitlements, without the work involved. Everyone’s guilty, so I’m not pointing fingers…that’s not true, let’s blame he current situation on the banking industry, so we don’t have to make ourselves accountable for similar bad behavior.
Here’s a humorous (and sometime not) look at the housing bailout crisis.
Finally, do you really want the federal government dictating how to make automobiles? Why not, they’ve done so well at resolving national healthcare, the national debt, social security, the SEC, the FAA, the TSA, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, and Chinese-made toys.
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