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To: longnshort who wrote (439749)	12/12/2008 10:23:04 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575047

My buddy, who as a natural born US citizen has a better take on all this than do I have, made the comments below. Taro "This, I think, is a form of mob hysteria. So many people WANT to believe BO is incapable of doing anything but good. They WANT a savior, and WANT to believe he is that person. People always have a tendency to believe what they WANT to believe. But hysteria nearly always ends in tragedy. Also: The liberal press, most of whom are desperate for income (check out the financials of CBS, NBC, etc, that have been going downhill for years), are too afraid of losing what little popularity they still have. Even more, they hope for a new "fairness" law that constrains the likes of OReilly, Limbaugh and all the other conservative talk shows. They want to see their liberal blather FORCED onto the airwaves, even though it has been amply demonstrated that the US population does not want to, and will not, listen to their BS. I LOVE the fact the Repubs killed the auto bail-out bill. At its heart this was all about Dems trying to bail out the LABOR UNIONS. It had MUCH less to do with saving the companies - though it's very hard to save the unions without saving the companies. The unions have been a huge voting block for the dems, for decades. The bailout was nothing more than pay-back. In my view, both unions and management have been looting the auto companies for years, since at least 1970. Anyone who could not see that, was totally blind, or in complete denial. Meanwhile they made sub-quality cars, so the public went to the Japanese who had more sense in how to run their operations - and could take advantage of the weakness of American politics. (Actually the US auto situation is a bit more complicated than that - thanks to gov't meddling in the Big-3's business. Maybe I'll write about that later; right now I don't have time.) This failure of the bailout will cost me more than a little money, but I still LOVE it. And hope it STAYS failed. I say let the so-called "Big 3" (a misnomer itself) go into bankruptcy, and bail THEMSELVES out, which they can and will do over a period of time (in one form or another). This is all a failure in government as well as industry. Let them all suffer the consequences, as provided for in the Constitution. Then there will eventually be a resurrection and re-invigoration of American manufacturing. Much better in the long run. SOCIALISM AND "CENTRAL PLANNING" IN GOVERNMENT DO NOT WORK, as any fool who pays attention to world economic history can so plainly see and understand. In the end, the truth will out, and the truth is that ONLY FREE ENTERPRISE can possibly save the economies of the western world. And before Western Europe gets a big head over all this, I think THEY would do well to get a better handle on the truth as well. Germany, France, et al, sooner or later will have to recognize that their socialism has only been made possible by the taxes paid by American people and industry, to provide the free defense umbrella they have enjoyed since WW2. A huge bill paid entirely by the USA, allowing Europe to live the good life because its single biggest expense was paid by the foolish Americans. But the times are changing, catalyzed by the Muslim threat. I don't believe the American taxpayer will finance the saving of Europe from the Muslim over-population - which is growing every day."