I'm so over this bailout shit.
Why are we the people, the tax payers, having to pay for the private sectors mistakes?
What right do these private companies have to go to the government and ask for billions of dollars from us, to fix their fucking mistakes?!
The big 3 auto makers went to congress today to ask for bailout money, they ran their companies to bankruptcy, gave their top level execs million dollar bonuses, sometimes several million dollar bonuses, and now they want us taxpayers to fix their money problems.
Several states have also gone to congress to ask for money, everybody is on their way there to ask for money.
All these private companies that made huge financial mistakes, they over spent, they gave bonuses out when the shouldn't have, and now all of them are getting in line to get a hand out from the government, from us.
What do we get?
What do we the people get from this bail out?
Nothing.
We aren't getting any of this bailout money, yet we are the ones who should have gotten the money, this is our money.
If the government gave every single tax payer in the country, $100,000 each, the people could pay off their debts, they could pay their mortgages, auto loans, insurance bills etc etc etc, and these companies would all be getting their money the right way, from the people who have the mortgages and loans.
People wouldn't have to lose their homes, they wouldn't have to lose their cars, or their insurance, but no, the government is seriously considering giving all of these companies money while the people still struggle, still go into foreclosure, lose their life's savings because the banks are going belly up.
If the big 3 auto makers go under, don't get this money, there is going to be such a huge problem in this country, an even bigger financial shit pile than it already is.
I'm glad that congress is giving them a hard time, really debating with them over how they mismanaged their companies and money, and that's how it should be.
It shouldn't be a get in line and get some money, it should be hard scrutiny, demanding to see all of their financial records, seeing where and how they all fucked up, demanding to know how they will use the money to fix everything, demanding to know if it will really secure them and make it so they won't come back asking for more.
The big 3 will probably get the money because there are over 2 million jobs at stake if these companies go bankrupt.
2 million people who work at these automakers, will be unemployed.
That's huge.
But isn't this unconstitutional?
Mike Huckabee was on The View today, and he said it's unconstitutional, I don't know how, he didn't get to explain it, because that dimwit Sherri Shepherd interrupted him with some stupid question about his talk show, and a whole bunch of stupid giggling like she always does, but I would have loved to hear him explain how wrong this is and why.
This whole thing is just mind blowing and numbing.
All of these private companies all worked hard to become huge businesses, they were living the American dream, then they got greedy and overspent, really screwed it all up, and now they want someone to fix it for them.
I've always believed that you could do whatever you wanted, be as successful as you could possibly be as long as you worked hard for it, and if you screwed up, it's on you, it's your fault, and you need to fix it yourself, that no one else should have to help you fix your mistakes.
But here are all these companies and banks, standing in line, waiting their turn to ask for some of this $700 billion in bailout money.
Why are we bailing them out for their mistakes?
Why can't they be allowed to fail?
They screwed up, they should have to face that themselves, fix it themselves.
All those big execs who took the big bonuses, should have to take massive pay cuts, hell, give some of the money back, they can't possibly have spent it all yet, so they should all have to give it back to help their companies survive.
If they don't want to lose the company, they need to do what it takes to save it themselves, and if that means they have to reinvest their bonus money, then so be it.
Everybody bitches about welfare, they say that people shouldn't just get a handout, that they should have to get back out there and get a job again, earn their own way.
This bailout is basically welfare for big companies who had earned billions and billions of dollars and screwed up.
Why is no one calling this what it really is?
This isn't a bailout, it's welfare for the rich companies.
They are calling it a loan, they say they will pay it all back when the economy gets better, but the economy can't get better if more people lose their homes and their jobs, people are saving their money, tucking it in between the mattress, holding onto it as tight as they can because this is a bad situation with no sign of getting better, the people are scared and rightly so.
This whole thing is just such a huge fucking mess.
I want to believe that our government is trying to do the right thing, trying to help the economy, but with all of these big companies in line wanting a cut of this money because of their mismanagement, I don't have much faith in the companies or the government.
If they screwed up their companies this badly when times were good, how can we trust them to fix it now when times are really bad?
Why are we the people, the tax payers, having to pay for the private sectors mistakes?
What right do these private companies have to go to the government and ask for billions of dollars from us, to fix their fucking mistakes?!
The big 3 auto makers went to congress today to ask for bailout money, they ran their companies to bankruptcy, gave their top level execs million dollar bonuses, sometimes several million dollar bonuses, and now they want us taxpayers to fix their money problems.
Several states have also gone to congress to ask for money, everybody is on their way there to ask for money.
All these private companies that made huge financial mistakes, they over spent, they gave bonuses out when the shouldn't have, and now all of them are getting in line to get a hand out from the government, from us.
What do we get?
What do we the people get from this bail out?
Nothing.
We aren't getting any of this bailout money, yet we are the ones who should have gotten the money, this is our money.
If the government gave every single tax payer in the country, $100,000 each, the people could pay off their debts, they could pay their mortgages, auto loans, insurance bills etc etc etc, and these companies would all be getting their money the right way, from the people who have the mortgages and loans.
People wouldn't have to lose their homes, they wouldn't have to lose their cars, or their insurance, but no, the government is seriously considering giving all of these companies money while the people still struggle, still go into foreclosure, lose their life's savings because the banks are going belly up.
If the big 3 auto makers go under, don't get this money, there is going to be such a huge problem in this country, an even bigger financial shit pile than it already is.
I'm glad that congress is giving them a hard time, really debating with them over how they mismanaged their companies and money, and that's how it should be.
It shouldn't be a get in line and get some money, it should be hard scrutiny, demanding to see all of their financial records, seeing where and how they all fucked up, demanding to know how they will use the money to fix everything, demanding to know if it will really secure them and make it so they won't come back asking for more.
The big 3 will probably get the money because there are over 2 million jobs at stake if these companies go bankrupt.
2 million people who work at these automakers, will be unemployed.
That's huge.
But isn't this unconstitutional?
Mike Huckabee was on The View today, and he said it's unconstitutional, I don't know how, he didn't get to explain it, because that dimwit Sherri Shepherd interrupted him with some stupid question about his talk show, and a whole bunch of stupid giggling like she always does, but I would have loved to hear him explain how wrong this is and why.
This whole thing is just mind blowing and numbing.
All of these private companies all worked hard to become huge businesses, they were living the American dream, then they got greedy and overspent, really screwed it all up, and now they want someone to fix it for them.
I've always believed that you could do whatever you wanted, be as successful as you could possibly be as long as you worked hard for it, and if you screwed up, it's on you, it's your fault, and you need to fix it yourself, that no one else should have to help you fix your mistakes.
But here are all these companies and banks, standing in line, waiting their turn to ask for some of this $700 billion in bailout money.
Why are we bailing them out for their mistakes?
Why can't they be allowed to fail?
They screwed up, they should have to face that themselves, fix it themselves.
All those big execs who took the big bonuses, should have to take massive pay cuts, hell, give some of the money back, they can't possibly have spent it all yet, so they should all have to give it back to help their companies survive.
If they don't want to lose the company, they need to do what it takes to save it themselves, and if that means they have to reinvest their bonus money, then so be it.
Everybody bitches about welfare, they say that people shouldn't just get a handout, that they should have to get back out there and get a job again, earn their own way.
This bailout is basically welfare for big companies who had earned billions and billions of dollars and screwed up.
Why is no one calling this what it really is?
This isn't a bailout, it's welfare for the rich companies.
They are calling it a loan, they say they will pay it all back when the economy gets better, but the economy can't get better if more people lose their homes and their jobs, people are saving their money, tucking it in between the mattress, holding onto it as tight as they can because this is a bad situation with no sign of getting better, the people are scared and rightly so.
This whole thing is just such a huge fucking mess.
I want to believe that our government is trying to do the right thing, trying to help the economy, but with all of these big companies in line wanting a cut of this money because of their mismanagement, I don't have much faith in the companies or the government.
If they screwed up their companies this badly when times were good, how can we trust them to fix it now when times are really bad?

