I see a big problem with these "banker bailouts" and "car industry bailouts."
Look, I've never voted Democrat in my life. I am an old-fashioned guy, but at this point the Republicans are making me puke. How the pineapple did gas prices in my city go from $1.50 to $4.50 and then down to like 1.60 in the span of 8 years? These corporate fat-cat bastards milked the whole country for cash to feed their corporate friends, and now with this bail-out crap they're trying to do it again.
I certainly see how the CEOs themselves are multi-millionaires and won't be harmed by their companies going down the toilet. BUT bailing them out pumps taxpayer money -- our money -- into the arms of for-profit corporations that want to take our money anyway, in the form of our earnings. Except they didn't earn it; they're getting it through incompetence. Why the hell should I pay money to bail out Morgan Stanley when if I am paying them money it should be for their services, or for their stock? I don't even have say in the matter! Who does? My Congressman, conveniently purchased by Morgan Stanley during elections. So, Morgan Stanley and Ford purchase Congressmen and Senators, who then give them tax money. The whole idea is prejudiced towards the big companies. If you or I get sick and are unable to work, the government will give us unemployment and welfare. We'll live in a pomegranatety neighborhood, below the poverty line, barely able to survive. Why should these corporations get preferential treatment? Take their employees, give those employees to a competent company, (maybe FUND that competent company, eh?) and let Ford and GM say BYE BYE.
Look, I've never voted Democrat in my life. I am an old-fashioned guy, but at this point the Republicans are making me puke. How the pineapple did gas prices in my city go from $1.50 to $4.50 and then down to like 1.60 in the span of 8 years? These corporate fat-cat bastards milked the whole country for cash to feed their corporate friends, and now with this bail-out crap they're trying to do it again.
I certainly see how the CEOs themselves are multi-millionaires and won't be harmed by their companies going down the toilet. BUT bailing them out pumps taxpayer money -- our money -- into the arms of for-profit corporations that want to take our money anyway, in the form of our earnings. Except they didn't earn it; they're getting it through incompetence. Why the hell should I pay money to bail out Morgan Stanley when if I am paying them money it should be for their services, or for their stock? I don't even have say in the matter! Who does? My Congressman, conveniently purchased by Morgan Stanley during elections. So, Morgan Stanley and Ford purchase Congressmen and Senators, who then give them tax money. The whole idea is prejudiced towards the big companies. If you or I get sick and are unable to work, the government will give us unemployment and welfare. We'll live in a pomegranatety neighborhood, below the poverty line, barely able to survive. Why should these corporations get preferential treatment? Take their employees, give those employees to a competent company, (maybe FUND that competent company, eh?) and let Ford and GM say BYE BYE.