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    Where should the next round of bailouts go?

     

    The administration is planning another round of "stimulus".   Nobody asked your opnion on how the first 2 trillion should be spent - maybe we want to make our voices heard this time.

     

    The "media" is already lined up for bailouts this time.  They need "help to survive", because they can't get concessions from their workforce (doesn't that sound eerily like Detroit?)

     

    I can tell you who I WOULDNT give any bailout money to:

     

    - Any automaker - let them build cars I want, or just go out of business.  GM and Chrysler went bankrupt after they got billions of our tax dollars last time.

     

    - Wall Street - if a financial company becomes insolvent, the FDIC is supposed to give us our checking and savings deposits back, then sell the bad loans to the highest bidder.  Nothing in the law about sending billions to the fatcat executives.  how will executives and board members do a better job if we simply pay them for making mistakes?

     

    -ethanol - as i understand it, ethanol raises my gas cost per gallon, reduces my mileage, and leads to higher food prices  and topsoil erosion.  is there an upside here?

     

    - newspapers, tv stations, websites - once you accept government money, you have to do what the government says.  google "citibank" if you don't believe this.  i dont want government control of the media., or at least i dont want MORE of it

     

    - trains, planes, or buses - stop giveaways to ALL transit systems, in the interest of fair play.  let them pay their own way.  there are like 1 million idle railroad freight cars now.   it would be 2 million if railroads had gotten more subsidies over the past decade.  subsidies onlly lead to excess capacity.  market demand shoud drive capacity, not government subsidies

     

    You probaby have ideas on who NOT to give our tax dollars too, also.  Please share.

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