Friday, October 3, 2008
BAILOUT!!!!!!
I have been so discouraged this week - I think it has been kicked off with the whole bailout thing. First of all - there is something about the very word bailout that just makes me cringe. We have reached a point where there is NO personal responsibility in this country anymore - not for businesses, not for government, not for individuals. There is ALWAYS the blame game and pointing fingers. And do you know what happens when people are not held responsible for irresponsible decisions?? THEY KEEP MAKING IRRESPONSIBLE DECISIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Bible gives clear direction and WARNINGS on dealing with financial issues, but no one seems to give heed to those things anymore. And the government just keeps giving and giving, promising and promising. That's like me being so in debt that I can't pay my own bills and pledging to give $100,000 a MONTH to support all the different missionaries and causes I would like to support on a $40,000 a YEAR income. Any rational person can see that that is just crazy!!! These are supposed to be intellectual people!!!!! It is so frustrating. In our area, 75% of those polled said they were not in favor of the bailout, yet our representative STILL voted for it. Is that true representation???? Well, I am just frustrated. I am all for compassion for individuals and helping people out. But I don't want the government deciding who I help - business or individual. Compassion is the individual's responsibility NOT the government's. I don't like the Robin Hood theory - it sounds nice on the surface, but it is just wrong. It is wrong to TAKE and then give. Is it okay for me to break in and steal from one neighbor who has plenty to give to another neighbor who doesn't have enough?? Is it okay to take (by taxation) from those people in our nation who have played by the rules and saved and gotten themselves out of debt and give it to those who have acted irresponsibly?? NO!!! Let me help my neighbor on my own, if I choose, and you use my money to defend our nation or get our country out of debt to countries who would seek to own us!!! Boy, I am rambling now. I'm not even sure I'm making sense anymore. I'm just so frustrated!!!!!
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Friday, October 3, 2008 - Bailout
 Posted by enjayw
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AMEN!!!!!!! I don't see anybody stepping up and paying my bills for me.
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Friday, October 3, 2008 - Untitled Comment
 Posted by Amanda
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Ditto! Couldn't have posted about it better myself! Can you imagine what this country is going to look like 10-20 years from now? SCARY!
Blessings!
Amanda <><
II Corinthians 5:7
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Saturday, October 4, 2008 - Untitled Comment
 Posted by LivingSimple
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Amen and Amen--I have been saying the same thing I am in absolute agreement with you..Thanks for sharing your feelings!
~Kris
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Saturday, October 4, 2008 - Untitled Comment
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No, there is certainly no one stepping up to pay our bills. But then again, not paying our bills won't make the whole country go into a deeper Depression than that the US experienced years ago either!!!!
I think people should definately take responsibility for their own problems and bills. But when these companies going under can cause problems with not one, not hundreds, but thousands of people, then something must be done!!!
If this bailout doesn't happen, do you understand that enough companies and banks could fold, and that your money in the bank, your mortgage won't be safe anymore??? Do you realize that the money markets could crash and it would involve everyone??? Not only groceries, but many many other things.
I don't trust the government anymore than the rest of you do. But I do know I don't want the US to go into another depression, and that is what the bail out is supposed to be preventing. They say the reason for the last depression was because the government wasn't willing to help out and bail out. Look how your grandmothers and grandfathers suffered!
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Saturday, October 4, 2008 - Response to anonymous
 Posted by jojatek89
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There are things that can be done other than a $700B dollar bailout FULL OF PORK!!!!!! They have made people believe that this is the only way, but it isn't. Go to daveramsey.com and read The Common Sense Fix. That is at least one option. I don't want to see the Great Depression come again, either, but I would like for SOMETHING to make our country wake up and smell the coffee. Our children's and grandchildren's futures are headed for perilous times anyway if some measure is not taken to stop the spoiled lifestyles we are being ENABLED to live. Payday will come - it's just a question of whether it's now or later.
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