The_Realist
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- Sep 30, 2008
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My, my, my...what a crew we have here! I just love this place, don't you? A place entitled "Authors Hangout", where we not only discuss writing, but politics and economics like as if we'd actually studied them.
Well, I've been watching this board for a rather lengthy time now, and watched as it degenerated into a mass of uninformed rantings of various members. To which, I've decided, to create a no-holds bar thread, where things will be said, but overall just a centralized place to discuss these "important matters" that have so gone and swamped our dear boards.
Oh, and a quick disclaimer: Expect insults to be slung here. If you have thin skin, I suggest two things: Close your E-trade stock account and "talk to Chuck" and two...DO NOT POST HERE!
So...without further ado, I present to you, my thread!
First topic, hot off of the presses, the government failing in its current bid to "save the economy"!
To start us off, I think just about all of us can agree the economy is in the shitter. Can't get buyers to buy homes, and if you do, they can't get loans to buy the home. Can't sell your home, can't refinance your home, you cry everytime you go to the gas pump, etc etc etc.
So...here comes Nancy Pelosi and her gang of Congress members to the rescue, right!? WRONG! Why the hell would congress be able to fix this? Sure, they have the slush fund...aka your taxdollars...available to fix it. However, these people are most certainly not the right people to fix this. They know politics, they don't know finances. Want the first smart move? Appoint a counsel of non-Congressmembers. Create a group of the countries most intelligent finances specialists. Draft em in if you have to. Want a few suggestions? How about Warren Buffet, Michael Bloomberg, Allen Greenspan, and Steve Ballmer. Draft a few professors from Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown, MIT, and George Washington University, to name a few.
Then, lets proceed to state in some laws. First up, lets put in a law to prevent "golden parachutes". If an executive fails at their job, then they lose it and don't get a huge fund back.
Secondly, lets look at Congress itself. Why do we pay each member of Congress $166,000 to work half the year, take a 5-week vacation in the midst of an energy crisis, take a religious holiday off during an economic crisis, bill taxpayers for their flights home, their travel around, their food, their vacations, and so on and so forth.
Well, I've been watching this board for a rather lengthy time now, and watched as it degenerated into a mass of uninformed rantings of various members. To which, I've decided, to create a no-holds bar thread, where things will be said, but overall just a centralized place to discuss these "important matters" that have so gone and swamped our dear boards.
Oh, and a quick disclaimer: Expect insults to be slung here. If you have thin skin, I suggest two things: Close your E-trade stock account and "talk to Chuck" and two...DO NOT POST HERE!
So...without further ado, I present to you, my thread!
First topic, hot off of the presses, the government failing in its current bid to "save the economy"!
To start us off, I think just about all of us can agree the economy is in the shitter. Can't get buyers to buy homes, and if you do, they can't get loans to buy the home. Can't sell your home, can't refinance your home, you cry everytime you go to the gas pump, etc etc etc.
So...here comes Nancy Pelosi and her gang of Congress members to the rescue, right!? WRONG! Why the hell would congress be able to fix this? Sure, they have the slush fund...aka your taxdollars...available to fix it. However, these people are most certainly not the right people to fix this. They know politics, they don't know finances. Want the first smart move? Appoint a counsel of non-Congressmembers. Create a group of the countries most intelligent finances specialists. Draft em in if you have to. Want a few suggestions? How about Warren Buffet, Michael Bloomberg, Allen Greenspan, and Steve Ballmer. Draft a few professors from Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown, MIT, and George Washington University, to name a few.
Then, lets proceed to state in some laws. First up, lets put in a law to prevent "golden parachutes". If an executive fails at their job, then they lose it and don't get a huge fund back.
Secondly, lets look at Congress itself. Why do we pay each member of Congress $166,000 to work half the year, take a 5-week vacation in the midst of an energy crisis, take a religious holiday off during an economic crisis, bill taxpayers for their flights home, their travel around, their food, their vacations, and so on and so forth.
