Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:35:53 -0600, wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:19:04 -0500, Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
Speaking of competition, it looks like the UAW won last night. They get
to keep their high salaries. They won't have to accept the drivel given
to the employees at Toyota and Honda.
Of course, that's only for the next few weeks.
They must be Yale graduates also.
Well duh...
That's the dumbest F'n decision, I think I've seen in my life. McConnell
must like Russian Roulette. After already giving $350 billion to Wall
Street to keep the markets afloat, he's unwilling to spend $14 billion.
That's one month's spending in Iraq.
You know what? I don't think I care anymore.
Give 'em the freakin' money, let GMAC reshape as a bank holding
company and just get it the hell over with.
Honest-to-pete. We have a failed company who refused for years to
reshape itself, gave out ridiculous concessions to a union that didn't
give a crap either and now that the reaper has come to collect the
bill, their screaming "not yet - not yet".
Please - give 'em the money. Put the burden of paying for free
retiree health care on the back of the taxpayer - most of whom don't
share in the largess of a Union contract. Continue to build Hummers.
Screw new technologies or updated technologies - build 'em and buy
'em.
Corporate Darwinism is dead - you screw up you can't fail. Economic
Darwinism is dead - a bad economic model - no problem. Social
Darwinism is dead - no more good/bad as it's all relative.
Everything that made us who were are is dead - might as well get used
to it. Save everybody - make sure that all are comfortable even those
who don't deserve to be. I mean what the hell, why not. I'm not
paying enough in taxes at 30% percent a year. Want my money that I
worked 80 hours a week for, scrimped, saved, invested - why not - I
don't deserve it anyway - I made it on the backs of those less
fortunate. Hell, while you're at it, move a few welfare mothers into
my house - we'll live in the basement where we deserve to be because
others less fortunate didn't have our advantages. My struggle with
alcohol and drugs is diddly squat compared to a single mom with six
kids all by different fathers. I don't deserve my success because I
was careful and planned for the future - the future is now don't you
know and now belongs to somebody else.
Just get it done. Bail everybody out.
I'm tired of hearing about it.
You ought to visit Norway, Tom. Really. A much more reasonable society
than what we have in this country in many ways.
Too cold for me, and I could never learn Norwegian. But you could.
Some time ago, I pointed out any number of times that I thought large
public corporations in all sectors were defrauding the public in terms
of their financial statements, and the stock market was built on little
more than a house of cards.
I feel vindicated. Again.