Oh please - here are some alternatives
Posted By: sm on 2009-01-18
In Reply to: plez watch every - mtjoy
History Channel: The Presidents 1865-1885, FDR, UFO Files (hey even UFO files will be better than the crap current events.)
A&E: The first 48.
HBO or other paid movie channels, Food Network, Travel channel. There will be so much to be able to choose from.
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1. Federal money to assist the states did not have to be tied to politically-driven "programs" that are being rammed down the states' throats and which will then have to be funded BY THE STATES once the federal money has been spent. Moreover, each state may be presumed (and SHOULD be presumed, under our Constitution) to know best what it needs to do with any federal money it receives in order to deal with its own unique problems. The "one size fits all and you'll take it and like it" attitude from Washington is disgusting (one might also say frightening), and probably unconstitutional to boot.
2. A lot of bailouts should have been avoided altogether. I'm not convinced that Washington didn't succumb to a mindless state of panic when certain slogans like "too big to fail" started floating around the halls of Congress. No one, on either side of the aisle, seemed willing to ask whether the pain of allowing AIG, Citibank and even Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to fail might not be far better than the pain that is now coming down the tracks in the form of enormous debt, enormous deficits (a different thing than deficits), and the inevitable tax and inflation consequences that will probably not be fully understood until our children are paying taxes.
3. If we did need to bail out some institutions, it seems logical to talk about "strings attached", but unfortunately the strings are attached at the other end to the very people in Washington who helped to create the problems, stood idly by while they grew to massive proportions, and who have never run a business themselves or cut a single payroll check.
So, we have Obama deciding that a certain CEO has to go. What the H-E-double-hockeysticks does Obama know about running anything? We saw an ugly example of all of this when Mr. Liddy, the man who had come out of retirement at Washington's behest to run AIG (for a salary of $1 per year) was skewered by the congressional committee for OBEYING THE FEDERAL LAW REGARDING BONUSES THAT THOSE VERY LAWMAKERS HAD PASSED - namely making it a FEDERAL OFFENSE not to pay bonuses that had been arranged prior to February of 2009. The things they said to him - all in the name of political posturing - and the way they treated this man were one of the lowest points in our government's history.
I could go on, but none of this has been done the way it should have been or probably would have been done had Washington not been stampeded into ill-considered, hasty and unquestionably foolish decisions. In fact, to call them "decisions", which implies some form of deliberative thought, is giving them too much credit.
I'm waiting for any alternatives....what do you suggest?...
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