Posted by
MarkTheTruePatriotWest on Friday, September 26, 2008 9:49:39 AM
Has anyone noticed the theme of the D.C. bailout talks? Come on, surely you’ve heard it several times by now.
Here is my paraphrase: “We don’t have time to point fingers, we just need to get this done to save America!”
Unfortunately, while time is essential at this juncture, we MUST point fingers. Why? We must determine what part of the economic structure is responsible so that we don’t pour $700 billion into a black hole.
If you have a hole in the bucket, pouring more water into it will not fix the leak! You’ve got to fix the leak before it will hold water. What our Congress is calling us to do is pour more water into a broken bucket rather than fixing the hole. I mean, really…use more debt to fix a debt problem?!
I’m sorry, that just flies in the face of good common sense, much less good economic policy. We must take the time to find the hole and fix it. Otherwise, we stand to loose all of our water. We don’t have an unlimited supply of money, matter-of-factly, we don’t even have the money we now believe we have anyway. Just a bunch of worthless paper!
Paper that will become even more worthless when this bailout passes.
Personally, I believe the financial institutions being bailed out should shoulder the responsibility. I mean, honestly, if they had made good on these risky investments do you really think they would be bailing us out? I didn’t think so. Why should we bail them out? Let them pay a fee of some sort to a mutual account of some sort to bail each other out. That process is already underway, as I write the headlines are reporting that JPMorgan just purchased Washington Mutual.
Some will fall, some will stand, all will change!
While those institutions allow the illness to work its way through and out of the system, the government can use taxpayer money to insure the deposits of middle class people in the institutions that fail. I found that concept in a Todd Harrison article on http://www.minyanville.com and I want to give him full credit for it. His idea seems to make a lot more sense than to give a $700 billion blank check with no strings attached to the Fed.
Many Americans don’t realize that this bailout gives the Fed unreviewable authority (by court or by Congress) to spend this taxpayer money.
That’s un-Constitutional and un-American!