A Senior's view of this current request for a financial bailout.
SeniorARK
Saturday, September 20, 2008
I once heard Rush Limbaugh characterize Americans who needed
assistance from the state, as "human debris". I never trusted
anything
he ever said after that. Those of us who believe that humans have
been
created in the image of God, know there is no such thing as "human
debris". Most of those with no faith, must also have recoiled at such
a description.
And now we hear the corporate world squealing for state assistance---
on a massive scale. Are these entities also "debris", and if so, why
are the American taxpayers being asked to make up their losses? Do
those who look down their noses at the human in need, support meeting
the corporate need? Why should those who are struggling to fill their
gas tanks, get medical treatment for their children, and put
reasonably priced food on their tables, bail out the stock market,
banks, and insurance giants? As they sew, they reap, right? Wrong,
when it comes to the financial world. Our representatives are
preparing to flood them with money, propping up the markets, and
covering their irresponsible behavior. The reason we will be given
is;
things for us lowly folks will get measurably worse if we don't. We
don't know if this is true or not. Is it real, or a phony "weapon of
mass destruction" to prop up the greedy. I have emailed both of my
Senators, and my Representative this Saturday morning asking this
very
question. You may want to do the same. I asked them not to be
panicked
into some massive giveaway, if it is the wrong thing to do.
So, those who would have urged denying a few billion to get childcare
for working mothers, or closing the doughnut hole for needy Seniors,
or funds to repair our crumbling infrastructure, are now themselves
pleading for hundreds of billions, or is it a trillion, or so. All to
cover the mistakes fueled by riotous greed.
McCain style deregulation has come home to roost. Our leaders must
make sure that enough safeguards are instituted, that this can never
be inflicted on the American people again. Yesterday, on a TV
business
channel, I heard a business leader say something like, "We are
willing
to have some traffic lights, but don't put cameras on them." His
point
seemed to be, you can regulate us now, but don't watch us. A perfect
recipe for the next crisis. Business will NOT regulate itself. Our
Congress has a great load on their shoulders this weekend.
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>Sunmitted for Seniors by : Robert Fassbach, editor, www.SeniorArk.com
>Saturday, September 20, 2008
>
>I once heard Rush Limbaugh characterize Americans who needed
>assistance from the state, as "human debris".
>
What does he think about residents of AK - the state that receives $5 in
federal aid for each dollar they collect in Federal income taxes?