Posted on 02/25/2009 6:03:46 AM PST by pissant
Bailouts, bailouts everywhere, and not an end in sight.
The automakers want more, the banks want more, even the nation’s biggest insurance company is back because its $150-billion bailout last year wasn’t enough. And what about the people who can’t pay their mortgages? Taxpayers are beginning to wonder if the U.S. Treasury is going to run out of money.
So what do Americans think about all these bailout requests?
Given the choice between federal bailouts for the auto companies, the finance industry and financially trouble homeowners or no bailouts for any of them, 54% say no bailouts period.
Just 26% support bailouts for all three, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Twenty percent (20%) aren’t sure which course is better to follow.
(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...
I had a bad feeling about these bailouts from day one. Just because of human nature. If you give money to someone and someone else sees it, they want money too. And then someone else too. And someone else. And you gave money to me before, I need some more. And some more.
It’s just turned into a cluster _____ .
The pubbies don’t care about anything except their personal reelection rhetoric. See Bonehead Boehner and the rest of his career (we owe it to them) minded cohorts.
Is it not amazing ... the socialist’s that live and die by the polls, now find the polls (i.e. this one) useless.
if only it was as coherent and useful as a clusterf***....
And yet, the Republicans continue to roll over to Obama because “he won”. Well guess what GOP, Obama didn’t win by promising to bailout everybody and his brother. Obama won on the platform that REPUBLICANS should have been running on - cutting taxes and transparent government. Obama’s not giving that to the people (as we knew he wouldn’t), so the GOP needs to find its moral compass, step up to the plate, and own this issue.
This frustrates me to no end. Obama and the Dems are handing this issue to us on a silver platter. We could so totally PWN them on this cluster of issues, but they won’t do it.
Here in Orange Co., NC the county board of commissioners is planning a property tax “re-evaluation” which is designed to up the assessed values of pretty much everybody’s property - a nice way to raise property taxes without actually raising the rate. People here - even people not normally political, or not normally very sympathetic to conservative issues - are up in arms about it. At a tax revolt meeting in Hillsborough last night, I hear they had upwards of 2500 people at the meeting, packed house and people lines up out the door three abreast for hundreds of feet. The County GOP is planning on hitching its wagon to this movement, since it’s a natural Republican issue (when Republicans act conservative, at least).
People out there are mad - mad about the taxes, the debt, the spending, the bailouts, whole bit. If the GOP would just grab this issue and run with it, this would be the way out of the electoral wilderness for them. But they won’t do it, at the national level. GRRRRRR.
LLS
the auto companies put their hand and and cry More -
ditto banks
ditto states and municipalities
sounds like when you take children into a candy store.
it includes a red-headed double-breasted mattress thrasher...
It would be nice if that 54% would boycott every auto company that takes the socialist bailout, ever bank that does so, and shun any neighbor who steals our tax dollars to pay a mortgage he got behind on for a house he couldn't afford (along with the sleazy mortgage company that made the loan).
I will never, ever, for any reason buy a new or used GM product for as long as I live. I'll walk before I do that (and the same for other car makers who steal our tax dollars).
I closed by bailout bank checking and savings accounts, and I am refusing checks from the local bailout banks - their customers can go get cash to pay me, but I won't deal with them ever again.
This socialist fiasco is harming my children, so I take it seriously, and I'm hoping more Americans will do the same.
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