Well the Feds are working on getting together a few hundred billion to bail out the auto industry.
I am all for the feds supplying health care and welfare for individual people who need it, but then I always put people before power. I feel it is the duty of the Gov't to assist it's disenfranchised citizens and get them back on their feet. Whether this includes day care, health care, food stamps or schooling, it doesn't matter to me. Whatever it takes to get them up and productive as working / contributing citizens again and off the dole is what should be done. But this welfare for already wealthy corporations is getting ridiculous. At least in the "good old days" Gov't and big business kept their hanky panky behind closed doors and it took a Noam Chomsky or someone like that to show us how to figure out what they're up to. Nowadays they're "doing it" right in our living rooms every night on the news and we get to watch.
Nobody bails out Jerry the Orchids Ltd guy or Gary who owns the Wet Pet aquarium store if their businesses should go belly up, which is fine, business is a risk even though these two are my pals and I'd hate to see them fail. I can't go along with bailing out any industries, or at the least, those who wish to remain deregulated or "free market". Minnesota's own NWA airlines seems to have been the real precedent setter in all of this when they got the bailout for pensions and operating costs so the CEOs could continue their lifestyles.
They also just caught some of the top pigs over at AIG enjoying a spa retreat on video after they got their first bailout while they're asking for another one.
(and on top of all that, The Daily Show / Colbert Report is reruns this week.... wait, just Monday! )
I am all for the feds supplying health care and welfare for individual people who need it, but then I always put people before power. I feel it is the duty of the Gov't to assist it's disenfranchised citizens and get them back on their feet. Whether this includes day care, health care, food stamps or schooling, it doesn't matter to me. Whatever it takes to get them up and productive as working / contributing citizens again and off the dole is what should be done. But this welfare for already wealthy corporations is getting ridiculous. At least in the "good old days" Gov't and big business kept their hanky panky behind closed doors and it took a Noam Chomsky or someone like that to show us how to figure out what they're up to. Nowadays they're "doing it" right in our living rooms every night on the news and we get to watch.
Nobody bails out Jerry the Orchids Ltd guy or Gary who owns the Wet Pet aquarium store if their businesses should go belly up, which is fine, business is a risk even though these two are my pals and I'd hate to see them fail. I can't go along with bailing out any industries, or at the least, those who wish to remain deregulated or "free market". Minnesota's own NWA airlines seems to have been the real precedent setter in all of this when they got the bailout for pensions and operating costs so the CEOs could continue their lifestyles.
They also just caught some of the top pigs over at AIG enjoying a spa retreat on video after they got their first bailout while they're asking for another one.
(and on top of all that, The Daily Show / Colbert Report is reruns this week.... wait, just Monday! )