wow, where to begin....
let businesses that aren't succeeding fail, if it's a niche that needs to be filled....another business will take it's place. that's how a free market works. chances are that some of the people that worked for the old business will get jobs with the new business...experience is hard to replace.
and what about the millions of unemployed that will be choking the welfare rolls? do you even have any idea of how much money this will cost the government? you say that the laid-off people will get jobs eventually, but how long will that take, exactly? new businesses don't just spring up overnight.
let people who are overextended fail, next time they will have some incentive to do their homework before agreeing to a high-risk mortgage. meanwhile, they can suck it up and make do. I survived on $12,000/yr....believe me if I can do it others can do it. it takes some creative thinking and a lot of doing without, I had some support from friends and family but not a whole lot. remember noone is entitled to happiness, only the pursuit of it.
right. you try taking a family of 5 and moving into a one room apartment, see how that works for you. families get broken up over this shit every single day, which leads to poor education for the kids, which also leads to possible crime....but hey, as long as it's not you, "LET THEM FAIL" right?
let people who don't want to work for a living live in a gymnasium filled with other like-minded people.....they'll figure out where they'd rather live and figure out how to get there pretty quick.
again, as long as it's not you, right?
the banks are a little too different of a creature to be treated the same as everything/everyone else, they can be allowed to fail up to a point. I'm generally against too much gov't regulation, but the banking industry seems like they need to be reined in a bit....too much weird stuff going on.
LOL typical conservative. "screw the little people, but banks get a pass". how's that been working for the country for the past 8 years, huh?
and how about letting kids fail? should we lower test standards or make students/educators/principals/school boards accountable for falling test scores? should kids be allowed to lose at a sport in order to motivate them to become better or should we not keep score and tell everyone they're all winners?
this i agree with, however it has nothing to do with our discussion.
and how, exactly, has obama brought change in gov't when he has people from dubya and people from clinton in his staff/cabinet? doesn't that go against his speech about how crazy it is it to think you can bring old school washington people to the white house and expect gov't to be run differently? methinks obama has gone against himself a few too many times to not get lumped in with every other politician in this country, and being from illinois (the land of corruption) doesn't help his cause.
who else is he supposed to get for his cabinet at a time like this? he needs people who are experienced right now, and unfortunately he has to pick from the old washington pool. in better economic times, he could have been a bit more fresh with his choices, but i think he did the best he could with who he had to pick from.
besides, anyone who has had any questionable things on their record has either removed themselves from the nominations or been replaced, so what's your problem? things like this is why there are senate confirmation hearings for cabinet positions....or did you think they all sat around and slept in the senate all day?
