What the hell is going on here? We seemed to have traded one President who was hell-bent on driving our resources past its limit for another. For all of the wandering battle-lust that people thought George W. was throwing us into, is Obama trying to sneak socialism on us in little increments and/or overextend us monetarily. Whereas Georgie was wasting our money through war efforts (both fronts which haven't really wound down totally even after a presidential change), Obama really just wants to hack the legs out from our economy.
Centralized Federal Health Care!!! I sure as hell don't want to pay for how poorly people take care of themselves. I also doubt that they'll give me any tax credit for all of the services I DON'T need. Those are both things that seem wrong but if they do one then they should do the other. Shouldn't I be given credit for being healthy to offset the real costs of taking care of morbidly obese diabetic 11 year olds living on happy meals, and Flamin' Hot Cheetos (quick aside, there was an actual local news item that some local schools were having to ban Flamin' Hots because too many kids were eating them competitively and/or for breakfast and were causing too much work for the school nurse because of all of the stomach pain it caused. Yes that was a featured news item.) This also doesn't take into account all of the immigrants who would be given access to the medical system for ALL procedures yet not giving to the tax pool-- which is why the California medical system as well as their other resources are strained, busted and broke now. Yeah lets take that "effectiveness" and make it national.
And the auto industry. Why is it that EVERY OTHER industry knows what to do when you have surplus. You have massive (not a couple grand here or there) reductions of overstock so that you aren't spending money on storage of aforementioned surplus.
On top of that is how gas is getting crazy expensive again, creeping up after the "authorities" have said that they were going to stop it from getting out of control. But here we are again and they are giving everyone the "summer screw" of sticking it to people during the months when they tend to travel more by car.
I mention this because if there was a genuine concern for the environment and the consumption of fossil fuels AND the real concern to keep the car manufacturers in business-- wouldn't it be in the best interest to have massively discounted AMERICAN cars on sale to get all of the old , less efficient (and maybe foreign) cars off the road?
That 3500-4500 discount rebate thing is a scam of its own too. The rope-a-dope is that after all of the re-shuffling and the gov't getting its stake in on the companies-- they offer the rebate BUT they are raising the interest rate percentages on the loans effectively erasing the discount. And there are countless stories about how selective the rules are for what cars they allow into the program...
No. Instead they bailed out the car companies, allowing them to get their books more balanced before selling to a foreign company? WHAT THE FUCK?! Shouldn't Fiat have had to buy the company WITH its debt? That basically means that the taxpayers gave their taxes to bail out a domestic company that has now become foreign owned.
This is all precisely why I don't talk about politics that often. It seems to be a cascading cluster-fuck of a conversation where there is too much politics involved and not enough wisdom. Plus it all starts to sounds a little too paranoid of grand conspiracies. But THEY won't let me tell you about the weather control, the earthquake and tsunami machine, or the Freemasons...