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Originally Posted by chelsea24
Sorry, but you haven't even begun to see the fall out from this yet. To say Congratulations to these selfish people SteveZ and others, is an extremely self-centered position.
We here in TV are luckier than most. But to most, this day meant a lot. It meant their payrolls and paychecks would be met, it meant their homes were secure, it meant they could proceed with a college fund for their child, it meant they would be able to sell or purchase a house, it meant gas in the car and it meant food on the table.
It didn't mean these things to me or you possibly. It certainly didn't mean these things to anyone on congress. But it meant that to most of America.
Nobody loved the bailout. But, it is a necessary evil. You can only spin people so much before they get dizzy and tired of the situation. I honestly believe the Republicans could present you with a bottle of horse manure and you would call it "Ode-de-Cheval and gleefully rub it behind your ears.
It's time to face the music and dance. And the tune they're playing is "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime." Wait and watch.
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Chelsea, you can be as insulting as you want. it doesn't change the fact that Pres. Bush, Speaker Pelosi, Sen. Dowd and Rep. Frank (to name a few) wanted everyone to pony up the money and then sometime later (after two or three more issues make the news and take over the headlines) would they maybe bet around to a fix. I wouldn't trust most of those folk to hold my lunchbox, let alone $700Billion with no fix for the problem. This was a "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."
It is time to face the music and dance, but the song is "Lord have mercy on the working man" (
http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/t/trav...an1328923.html) with the key lines being:
Uncle Sam's got his hands in my pockets
And he helps himself each time he needs a dime
Them politicians treat me like a mushroom
'Cause they feed me bull and keep me in the blind.
Businesses that are credit-worthy will get credit for payrolls, etc. because they are solvent.
Homes are secure if the person can afford the mortgage payment (nobody ever paid mine, so I'm in no hurry to pay someone else's).
If the college fund is full of high-risk investments, then
high-risk should tell you something, and
investment is a $10 word meaning
gamble.
Perhaps you should take a good whiff of what this bill was made of. It stunk worse than any horse manure, and was being sold as the magic elixer cure-all (but for whom?)
Most of us have compassion for people, but I find it difficult for so-called friends to ask their neighbors to bankrupt themselves on a bet that things may get better.
No one is going to go hungry because of this, but some people used to milking others via pyramid schemes or getting rich by siphoning campaign cash "donated" by financial institutions aren't going to get richer off of ouor collective fear - a fear they fostered!
If some businesses go belly-up, so be it. Thousands do each year. Bailing out a failed business is like paying off a repossessed car - you still end up with no car, and now less money!
Making this a partisan politics issue is dead wrong. The combined greed from both sides of the aisle tried to screw all of us, and counted on the fact that we were too scared to do anything but drink the Kool-Aid and never ask what flavor it was.