Posted by
Gerald R Evans on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 10:22:59 PM
Hey, Barack! Where's my bail out? Before you go giving Ford, GM and Chrysler a big check, why not give it to those of us who need it the most, the middle class you supposedly care about? Want to "stimulate the economy" give all of us a chunk of that $25 billion. "I think its good when you spread the wealth around," OK spread some wealth my way.
I haven't really agreed with the bail outs. I think its crazy to just keep handing out money left and right to everyone who asks for it. It's a free market economy, let the market self regulate. Of course the government got the banks into this mess, so they should get them out, to a degree. But, not by taxing all of us into the poor house. Why not cut government spending by cutting pay for all three branches of the Federal government? These guys dont run in elections for the money, its for the power, so why not make them pay for their mistakes?
As far as Ford, GM and Chrysler go... let them eat transfer case. (LOL) I think it would actually be good for all three if they went belly up. They could renegotiate union contracts if not completely do away with the UAW, thus reducing the manufacturing costs of the cars and trucks ther produce which would allow them to actually turn a profit... That and anyone who knows anything about war mobilization knows that the DOD doesnt want Detroit going out of business and scraping their huge steel stamping facilities to try and produce cheap platic cars that run on batteries. We need those plants just incase we have another international war, ie WWIII. Think about it, who is better prepared to switch over to a war time production base; Ford or Hyundai?
Give me (and the rest of the downtrodden, desolet, disspondent middle class) some of that 25billion...