BaZaRr BeAtZ
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First off I want to point out that adding new monies into an already deteriorating economy does nothing but drive inflation up causing the value of the American dollar to decrease. Instead of giving billions of dollars in bailout monies to the auto makers, who by the way are already filing for bankruptcy because of the apparent lack of money management skills shown by those companies' CEO's, why don't the government set up a new automobile purchase stimulus for every American of legal age? I'm not talking about the "Cash for Clunkers" and other "incentives" obama has set forth. I'm talking about a down-payment stimulus which would cover the first let's say $7,500 towards the purchase of a new American made automobile. By implementing a stimulus such as this you would accomplish 2 major things. First, the money would immediately go towards the automobile company's sales by allowing the purchase of thousands of new vehicles, instead of giving the money to the company to continue to pay $60+/hr for line workers and allow the CEO's to continue to give themselves millions of dollars in bonuses. Second, this would allow the American citizens the opportunity to purchase a new, reliable, American made automobile without having to worry about a 23-25% interest rate. Also this would allow the average American worker who isn't fortunate enough, even by working 60+ hours a week or having to work 2 jobs just to survive, to have $2,500 for a down payment and high monthly payments the opportunity to purchase a reliable vehicle to allow them to continue to show up at work every day.
I understand that would equate to a lot of money, even more-so than the $9 billion sent to GM, but why not use the "borrowed" money to actually help the American citizen instead of helping rich CEO's who can't manage a company's money properly??? Makes sense to me.
Another thing about this new $79.9 billion stimulus for war funding.....Didn't obama promise to bring our troops home saying that we are fighting a war that we shouldn't be involved in? Now he wants to continue to drive the already horrifying national debt up even more to support a war he opposed in the first place? I understand it takes time to get our troops home, however, if our "beloved" government is going to continue to borrow money for stimulus plans, let's use that money on something that will actually help our economy and stop trying to bully the rest of the world. $36.1 billion is being approved to help fight the flu, buy military cargo planes, and provide food and financial aid to poor countries. We have hundreds of thousands of homeless and starving American citizens here in the States, why not use that $36.1 billion to help our own citizens out? Maybe I should take my last $3.00 from my paycheck, and instead of buying a loaf of bread I should send it to a poor family over seas and let my family go hungry?
The average American is not as ignorant to our economic crisis as one may think, as stated in a previous post. Just because the percentage of Americans holding a college degree is relatively low, doesn't mean one is ignorant to what is going on. You don't have to be an intellectual genius to have common sense, which proves to be more of a factor than normal intelligence. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that the American dollar is decreasing in value every time a new stimulus package is introduced into our economy, all you have to do is take a look at the increasing prices at the grocery store. Package of bologna in 2004 -$.50 , package of bologna in 2009 - $2.00 . We are helping our government make excuses for their actions, allowing 545 people with decision making powers to create a tyranny over the mind of our citizens, all the while putting millions in their pockets. As far as the "uneducated and uninformed" not always making the decisions with the best interest for our country goes, as we all can tell, the 545 "knowledgeable" people in control of making decisions for our country obviously haven't been making decisions with the best interest of our country in mind or we wouldn't be in this economical crisis...... In every election, there are 2 primary parties, one of which HAS to win the election, therefore you can't blame the American voters for our corrupt government that makes decisions based on pay-offs, look at the health-care system who paid off numerous government officials including the president when Hillary Clinton pressed for a reformed health plan. The majority of 300+ million, or the majority of 545, who do you think will make the better choices?
I understand that would equate to a lot of money, even more-so than the $9 billion sent to GM, but why not use the "borrowed" money to actually help the American citizen instead of helping rich CEO's who can't manage a company's money properly??? Makes sense to me.
Another thing about this new $79.9 billion stimulus for war funding.....Didn't obama promise to bring our troops home saying that we are fighting a war that we shouldn't be involved in? Now he wants to continue to drive the already horrifying national debt up even more to support a war he opposed in the first place? I understand it takes time to get our troops home, however, if our "beloved" government is going to continue to borrow money for stimulus plans, let's use that money on something that will actually help our economy and stop trying to bully the rest of the world. $36.1 billion is being approved to help fight the flu, buy military cargo planes, and provide food and financial aid to poor countries. We have hundreds of thousands of homeless and starving American citizens here in the States, why not use that $36.1 billion to help our own citizens out? Maybe I should take my last $3.00 from my paycheck, and instead of buying a loaf of bread I should send it to a poor family over seas and let my family go hungry?
The average American is not as ignorant to our economic crisis as one may think, as stated in a previous post. Just because the percentage of Americans holding a college degree is relatively low, doesn't mean one is ignorant to what is going on. You don't have to be an intellectual genius to have common sense, which proves to be more of a factor than normal intelligence. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that the American dollar is decreasing in value every time a new stimulus package is introduced into our economy, all you have to do is take a look at the increasing prices at the grocery store. Package of bologna in 2004 -$.50 , package of bologna in 2009 - $2.00 . We are helping our government make excuses for their actions, allowing 545 people with decision making powers to create a tyranny over the mind of our citizens, all the while putting millions in their pockets. As far as the "uneducated and uninformed" not always making the decisions with the best interest for our country goes, as we all can tell, the 545 "knowledgeable" people in control of making decisions for our country obviously haven't been making decisions with the best interest of our country in mind or we wouldn't be in this economical crisis...... In every election, there are 2 primary parties, one of which HAS to win the election, therefore you can't blame the American voters for our corrupt government that makes decisions based on pay-offs, look at the health-care system who paid off numerous government officials including the president when Hillary Clinton pressed for a reformed health plan. The majority of 300+ million, or the majority of 545, who do you think will make the better choices?