Sorry, I just love this country and hate to see what the politicians are doing to it. I'm scared for my grandkids and what they are going to be left with.
You GUYS put the MORON (Bush) in office twice There is a saying: Fool me once shame on you Fool me twice shame on me !
Maybe most of the rich will pull a "Jimmy Rogers"... cash in their chips and GET THE HELL OUT OF AMERICA. Unfortunately, it will take something that extreme to initiate the kind of REAL change* that would be good for the country. * I know the DemoCraps are campaigning with "change" every other word. What they MEAN is "change from the RepubliClowns overspending your money to we DemoCraps overspending your money".
You're right, of course. It would be fitting justice if everyone who voted for Bush would, in a fit of grief and shame, just jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. (Of course, everyone who voted for Gore was SPARED similar shame because he lost.)
Well said Mr Iacocca, but as you alude to, unfortunately the sheeple now regard the American Dream or the credit that provides the illusion of it as a birthright. Anybody who does not promise the American Dream for nothing will not be voted in. I can't believe the change in Americans over the last 10 years. Amercans used to have so many admirable qualities, now an American is some unshaven guy witn a baseball cap on the wrong way round and a maxed out credit card. Old American. Overheard at Ankor Wat [Cambodia] : An American lady in her 60's saying to the tour guide "make sure we leave enough time to stop off at the orphanage on the way to the airport, I want to give" New American. Overhheard in the lift in my building: Unshaven guy in shorts and baseball cap the wrong way round: Gee I'm really going to try and pay off my credit card so I can do it all again".
what little remaining trust i have in the US Government relies on impeachment at this point. that's the only path to regaining my trust, personally. it's like any other relationship, that between the people and their government. without trust, relationships fail.
The grandkids of the country are already sold into indentured servitude before they leave the cradle. Except for the top per center's of course, because somebody has to own them after all... The bought-off politicians let the financial companies charge the usury fees to do it, let them mix the subprime Kool-Aid, let the corporations move the jobs overseas and tell you to retrain to do a job someone overseas will do for 50 cents a day, devalue your savings with inflation and then complain you don't save enough, create liquidity bubbles while warning of irrational exuberance... But at least we got Saddam who was responsible for 9/11 - even couldn't hide in a hole in the ground to get away. Worth that few billion a week to git 'em. What's the name of the other guy with the beard who sends out those videos every so often.... Oh well, he's probably not too important in all that...
Gotta love Lee.. Never had a lack for words thats for sure..haha And, I too, know a lot about the Chrysler bailout as it effected most of my family. Let me tell you something, if Chysler was the example of bailouts, no one would be complaining about gov't rescues. Instead, they're more like the black guy on welfare who who gets an SBA loan and starts a future multi-billion dollar business. That was a real success story. Lee didn't just take the money. He felt a responsibility to make sure it got spent wisely. Failure was never an option. He had too much pride to ever be known as a guy who shafted the taxpayers. He's a class act at the end of the day.