Bailouts and Stimuluses and Messaging
I had the thought that the recent bank bailouts and stimuluses really amount to a new form of corporate welfare - and these new welfare queens are even less worthy than the welfare queens of time past. We get upset when John Thain redecorates his office to the tune of millions, just as we rightly get upset when poverty mama spends her assistance checks on game systems, new shoes and expensive jewelry. Obviously there's a greater moral wrong when the businessman, who is supposed to be disciplined and moral, makes these kind of lapses, but our righteous anger ought to be channeled in such a way as to have a similar welfare reform as we did in 1996 for a corporate welfare reform of 2009 to start allowing companies to fail, and remove the rent-seeking regulations on smaller companies to take up the slack when giants like Sh*ttybank (Citibank) and Skank of America (Bank of America) fall.
Labels: Congress, Economics, messaging, obama, Pelosi
The bailout blame game
Harry Reid just called off the Senate vote on an automotive bailout, and let's not forget that the Democrats control the Congress. When I was in Detroit, I heard the local NPR take callers who tried, even still, to blame Republicans for the lack of a car bailout. Yet, no one notices the obvious: that when the unions and the manufacturing industry blithely gives its votes, repeatedly, to Democrats that they get taken advantage of --
as seen by the Democrats' internal power struggle displacing Cong. Dingell in favor of Henry Waxman. The Democrats are carving up the auto industry, fat on the votes of unions who don't know better, and busy serving their real masters: the environmentalists.
Labels: Congress, Democrats, Detroit, Economics, policy
Diseased Notions of Tolerance
Though there are plenty of anecdotes that are meant to pull on the heart-strings, it becomes an objective ridiculous proposition to allow those with terminal diseases to immigrate to the United States.
The prohibition against those with AIDS, leprosy and other ailments from entering the country has recently been lifted by the Democrat Congress, assuredly under the guise of "tolerance" and "respecting the rights of others." Now, of course, our disgraceful President even endorsed this idea when he signed it into law, but let's not forget what this will unquestionably mean: more diseased Americans contracting an illness because the government doesn't want to be seen as "intolerant" towards people who aren't even citizens! The nation-state may be on the wane, but the interests of Americans ought to be put before those of prospective Americans. Why shell out huge chunks of foreign aid to Africa to those with AIDS when we can just open the border and let them all come here! The government should be taking steps to use immigration to reduce disease, not promote it, and not bring in people who will further strain our health care system.
Labels: Bush, Congress, Democrats, disease
