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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Oct 8, 2008, at 12:08 PM, EarthNSky wrote:

> Call me whatever, but I think it is time for the bailouts to stop.  I
> think it is time that we stopped trying to help everyone under the sun
> and make them responsible for themselves.  We should not be paying for
> people to rebuild on Bolivar and other places that are low lying  
> barrier
> islands.

I agree in principle but I do not know how serious the economic crisis  
really is. It looks terrible to me. I don't think government action  
will stop the big slide. But when Congress votes for a bailout we get  
a bailout. It may well be a total waste of our money. I suspect it is.  
But I am way too ignorant of the workings of big financial business to  
second guess those who do understand.
> So, is that hateful...you may think so. It doesn't feel hateful to me.
> It feels like tough love for my fellow man.   The more help we give to
> people, the more dependent they become and the less they do for
> themselves.

I am against bailouts. I am against charity beyond short-term  
emergencies--to turn my back on people in desperate needs would make  
me feel inhumane. But I am in favor of what makes us stronger as a  
society. For instance I am in favor of national cradle-to-grave health  
care because a healthier population is a more efficient and more  
productive population. And it feels right to me.
> Your Revolutionary is all about doing more for the people of the world
> as well as Americans.

Yeah, quite a reversal of present policy.

>  We will make people more dependent on government
> with his programs;  We will find more people turning to bite the hand
> that feeds them.

Now, Bev, you know that doesn't fly here. Examples from history and  
his proposed programs, please.

>   We just need to stop.  I don't know how, but we need
> to stop  intervening in both countries and lives of Americans and  
> allow
> people, the individual to make it or break it on their own, just as  
> our
> homesteading ancestors did.

It is a different world now. All is connected. Isolationism leads  
downward. Integration leads upward. Look at China.