2012 Presidential Election (free for all edition)

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Originally Posted by saden1

So you want to let the life savings of their employees' vanish and tell them to hit the unemployment line with their hand out asking Uncle Sam for change? Do you have cost benefit analysis on different scenarios? I'm betting it's cheaper to let people keep their retirement money and continue to be employed than paying investors first at the expense of gutting an industry and having people join the unemployment line. Even worse, cut of unemployment all together and have people go hungry.




What is really disturbing is that you want tax payers to bankroll the creation of the internet, turn it over to private companies, give these companies monopolies and free access to public land to lay down lines and finally allow them to charge them for both packet requests and responses.

...fck that!



ISP: You want to go visit google.com? Sorry, we have a deal with Microsoft and it's bing.com search engine? Maybe we can get something worked out where you pay us more to visit google.com?

Consumer: You are one of two ISPs allowed in my neighborhood? Am I paying to connect to the "internet" on your intranet?


...pragmatism is truly lost.

Your also assuming GM would have gone under. The bailout only made it easier on GM I don't think they would have gone belly up without gov aid.