You are sorely mistaken. When people are handed a blank check, that’s handing money to the consumers. When people are handed a check already filled out to the UAW, that’s union pandering. Nice try, though.

The best Maher episodes were those with PJ O’Rourke sitting on the same side of the desk as Maher. At least Maher doesn’t get away with as many stupid statements as he makes anymore. So maybe JS needs Glenn Beck as a co-anchor. That might be half-way interesting.

Unfortunately, it looks you already have.

Well said.
I went without cable for a few years- just got it back- and I was looking forward to watching TDS… until I watched it. Was that Jon Stewart or Bill Mahr? Terrible show and his true colors are really showing. Thanks for pointing this out.

OK, remove the government check from the equasion and you have a supremely reasonable solution. As opposed to the concept of ‘to each according to their needs, from each according to their ability’, the concept of ‘free minds and free markets’ is infinitely more reasonable.

Just because you are enamoured with your ability to spend my money on your agenda does not make your motives valid, honest, or good.

None of this, by the way, should be misconstrued as an attempt to defend Chet, Jon Stewart, or CfC.

Back to Econ 101 for you.

“shanda fur der goyim”

If you meet him, and you say those words, be prepared to run like Hell.

Someone will buy them, restructure the companies, and make them profitable again. People might lose their jobs, but 99% of Americans should not be responsible for employing 1% against their will. I don’t see how we can justify exploiting the majority in a such a manner.

It doesn’t matter how you try to white wash it, forcing debt onto people and making them pay back the principal and interest against their will is a crime. It’s theft. I don’t care if it is to pay for wars or for bailouts, it’s always wrong and it always has been.

So many of the liberal minded people who leave their character attacking comments here see the world in black and white. It’s like we’re either with you or against you…hmm…where have I heard that before?

To be fair, the right wingers do the same thing when the posts are about the war on terrorism or the like. The neocons call us lefties and the lefties call us neocons. Good to know you’re all flip sides of the same coin. Stewart and Dennis Miller are the bizarro versions of each other.

#190 maoSpecial

And if they don’t have private unemployment insurance (like everyone can afford that, lol), then what? Let em rot n’ starve? compassionate conservatism at its finest.

First of all, despite their rhetoric to the contrary, there is nothing about conservatism that opposes welfare anymore. They jumped on that bandwagon a long time ago.

Secondly, I applaud your willingness to be compassionate with other people’s money. I guess that would be compassionate liberalism at its finest.

I’m arguing against financing today’s bailouts on the backs of future generations who don’t have any voice in the matter. You know, that “taxation without representation” thing. It used to be popular back when the country was founded. Not so much anymore, though. The new attitude is “Fuck ‘em”.

#188 flyingEagles

Can I assume then that you don’t believe in unemployment checks then?

I don’t have a problem with unemployment checks provided it comes from insurance that you buy for yourself to insure yourself from unemployment. I don’t believe in unemployment checks written against my kids’ banks accounts for people, long dead, who were too busy spending their own paychecks on new cars to worry about covering themselves against unexpected emergencies.

I know, paying your own way is a difficult concept to wrap your head around when the new national pastime is to see how much debt we can run up just to make sure no one suffers for their own financial irresponsibility.

I never thought I’d see the day when the idea of not running up a huge debt would be met with such absolute scorn. In the end, at least you’ll be able to fall back on the excuse that you just went along because everyone else was doing it. It won’t be the first time in history that’s happened.

Ok so basically do nothing. Fair enough. Can I assume then that you don’t believe in unemployment checks then? Because with the way that the car industry was/is going, the big 3 were headed down the tubes. That’s hundreds of thousands of job layoffs, of which all would be then getting unemployment checks from the government. Those will of course, be paid for by “your kids” as well. Not only that but the people layed off will not be working or producing anything, just receiving a check from the government. You failed to offer up a reasonable solution. Move along now.

Oh boy, get over yourself. I pay plenty of taxes (probably more in income taxes than you do) for programs that I don’t participate in.

You’re right. It’s not me who is going to suffer. I will be long dead before this program is ever paid for. It will be my grand kids.

For someone who “probably” pays more income taxes than I do (and I should get over myself?), I’m surprised you feel completely justified in buying yourself a new car paid for, in part, by a future generation who had no part in the decision to do so.

Oops. I forgot. You’re not buying a new car at their expense. You’re stimulating the car industry. It just looks like a new car. Yeah, that’s it.

My solution? Simple. I don’t saddle my kids with debt so I can party now. But, feel free to keep right on thinking of it as a “stimulus” package. I’m sure they’ll understand and won’t be pissed off in the least.

Oh boy, get over yourself. I pay plenty of taxes (probably more in income taxes than you do) for programs that I don’t participate in. You’re getting away from the point that this program is stimulating the car industry. The other option, of course, is for car factories/dealerships to shut down and their employees to go on government unemployment which, of course, is paid for by my and your taxes. With all your posts, you’ve failed to cite another solution.