The anger is real..

[SoCalDem]

Every person of a "certain age" has probably lived out a similar scenario, if only on a smaller scale.

How many of us have had that late night phone call, or that visit from a family member or friend.. They are upset and crying and are desperate..they need rent money, they have a broken down car, or the utilities are about to be shut off, or they cannot afford medicine their child needs.. They are broke, and are at the end of their rope.. Could you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help them..

Many of us can and have done so..

and then..

a few days, weeks,months go by and somehow they never seem to have any money to repay us, or they ignore us altogether, and there's a new car in their driveway or a relative comments on their beautiful new TV ..

We feel like chumps....

Our government has made chumps out of us time and again.. We can all relate to the basic thing here.. We are being taken advantage of..

The "bail-out" is just another in a long line of "emergency" bailouts for the boo-boos of the privileged. and it does not take long for them to flaunt their excesses. We all have seen for decades, the fawning over these brilliant people.. we are shown on tv, all their gala parties, and the schmoozing they do with the rich & famous..Media loves to show us their beautiful homes, their fancy cars, their private planes.. So when they come to us, bawling their eyes out, hat in hand to ask for yet another bailout for their latest screw-up (by managing OUR money)is it really that hard to understand the outrage on our part?

We PAY these people to do a job for us, and instead they plot ways to rob us blind, and then come to us for even MORE money, and they expect us to just keep "hiring" them..

[tblue]

1. Yep. I had someone in my family borrow a whole buncha $$ from us.

Their business did fail. They did have to sell their home, and they said they made no money from the sale, and they are now renters. But since receiving with the money we loaned them, they've bought a beautiful used Mustang for their high school grad, a beautiful used Cadillac for their other high school grad, a Porsche SUV, and a Prius. I am not lying. (My car is 11 years old and I'd like a new car, too, but can't afford it.) And they have not said word one about the loan. But they are always complaining to me how broke they are, that they are almost having a nervous breakdown because of it. And that makes it difficult to bring up the subject of the loan because I really do believe they are teetering on mental collapse.

I don't know WTF to do.

But, the analogy to the current economic fiasco is not lost on me. I don't mind helping out someone who really needs it, but I do expect people to be adult about their responsibilities and keep their damn word.

[wundermaus]

2. There is something much more sinister in the shadows of this bailout...

global extortion.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=873682522&play=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi9vXKWYaZ8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqIFoBXGizc

[Hubert Flottz]

3. All they want you to do is trust Bush and his gang...

Would they lie to you?

[bvar22]

4. Would you buy a used car from these people?

Didn't they promise that the Iraq War would be paid for by the sale of Iraqi Oil?
I don't recall a singl mention of paying back the taxpayers when that Oil Companies were given no bid contracts for Iraqi Oil.

Didn't they say that there were protections written into the Authorization to Use Force in Iraq?
I don't remember them holding Bush accountable when thse "protections" were laughed at.
I don't remember anyone saying anything at all.

Didn't they say that there were problems with The Patriot Act, but we NEEDED a bill immediately, and they would go back and FIX IT later?
No body went back and fixed it.
No body even mentioned it.

Give us $700Billion of your children's money to throw at Wall Street, and we'll "fix it later"?

Forgive me if I'm having trouble trusting you.

[SoCalDem]

5. Haven't you heard?? Senate ADDED $100 billion for "sweeteners"

Instead of making the "sweeteners" PART of the 700B, they added 100B more..:grr:

I guess it's no biggie to them.. it's not THEIR money, now is it?? (the share they WILL pay is affordable to THEM...and surely their home(S) are not in any jeopardy.. their JOBS?? hmmm....maybe..

[xchrom]

6. recommend

[tech3149]

7. Been there, Done that, but that's not the point

I've helped people out when they asked. In some cases there was no commitment for payback, in others there were. I only got burned once and that person was on my shit list after that.

To relate it to the current situation, the difference is that we were not asked. If our elected representatives had explained why it was needed, what the benefits and cost's would be and would there be a payback, I might not have a problem with putting up the scratch.
I don't think they have the balls or brains to tell me the truth or a good sob story to get me to open my wallet.

[SoCalDem]

8. The feeling's the same..and the fact that they didn;t even explain

makes it even worse.. Like they Know what chumps we are, and that we don;t even deserve an explanation..:grr: