The Taxpayer as an ATM...

First, the article...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26871338/

This is about the stupidest idea yet. Lets take our tax dollars and give them to the very people who put us in this mess to begin with. It's only about a trillion dollars, what's that between cronies? The past 12 years have done nothing but pump money into these companies while Resident Bush cut the taxes that they were supposed to be putting back into the system, and now they want to act like an ATM machine and spit more money for mismanagement back into the same broken system? Am I the only one who thinks it might be better in the long run to see if Capitalism really works? Did we not fight the Cold War because we couldn't stand the very thought of Socialism? And that's what it really breaks down to, not Corporate Welfare, but Corporate Socialism. I say let 'em fall and let the market correct itself, like it's supposed to.


Maybe it would be in the best interest to bail these creeps out, if we weren't at war. You know that little thing? The 'Mission Accomplished' right? I think that deserves the money just a little bit more. I don't care how 'stable' Iraq is, it's moving back to where it started, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Soviets invaded Afghanistan a few months before I was born but I remember the withdrawal, and I seem to recall that it had something to do with their eventual demise.

Over the past seven years we have been asked to sacrifice a lot. I am not in the military and neither is anybody in my immediate family, but everybody knows somebody who is or has been over in the Middle East. Whether or not you agree with the war you must acknowledge the sacrifices of these men and women and salute their bravery and determination. We as citizens owe these people a debt of care and honor to say the least. How many of them are coming home to foreclosed homes? To broken marriages? How much you want to bet that their medical coverage is one of the first things that starts to suffer because we had to give a $700,000,000,000 (looks a lot different when you actually SEE the zeros doesn't it?) handout to a bunch of creeps who couldn't handle the last batch of billions they had? What have George W. Bush and his ilk sacrificed besides their approval ratings? Besides our Civil Liberties? Besides our greatness? I think it's time that We The People finally let them step up and sacrifice something.

Give the bastards nothing, they've taken enough.

bjoly