automotive bailout i say nay

As stated in my classmate's blog about the bailouts we have a problem. Everyone is looking to Obama to solve their problems. Why do these car companies and money investors get special treatment, and when does the throwing money around to fix a problem stop. Every time I turn on the news I hear about Obama's new proposal that will cost us even more money yet he is planning on cutting taxes. Has he forgotten about the deficit? And to answer your question the reason that the car companies are in trouble is because unlike foreign companies we have to worry about unions. In the American car companies you can come right out of high school and make more than $100,000 a year with outstanding benefits. Now I went hunting with some high up business men this weekend, most of whom own their own businesses, and they explained how this could be fixed. First the automotive companies must file for bankruptcy. Then when the bankruptcy judge is determining which contracts the company can retain, he voids the contract with the unions. This then makes the cost of cars go down which makes the price go down, which in turn more people buy the cars, and poof no more problem. We are so caught up in the little guy we have given him too much power. So you can complain about high price of cars and what the government is doing but it is you, the people who want the government to do everything for them, that are creating this problem.

Complaining about the Complainers

One of the big campaign promises from Obama is the finding of new sources of energy. But let’s take a look at some of his promises and why many people believe we need to find these new sources of energy. What it mainly comes down to is the person’s need to whine.

It isn’t about the lack of alterative energy people just don’t want to use it. We have the ability to use nuclear power. It is clean, safe, and efficient but the moment you mention it people break into fear thinking of Chernobyl. But what people do not understand is that the Chernobyl power plant was in bad shape. It was not kept up to code and was many years past the destruction date. We are also the only major power country that does not use nuclear power. But instead of looking at the technology we already have people need to complain at one accident and want others. So what is one that Obama promises, geothermal energy. This is just a big word for producing steam from the ground. The problem is that the only places this works is in highly volcanic zones. So who could use this power? There is the North West coast and Hawaii so rounding up about 2% of the nation’s population. So what about the other 98% of us?

People also want to bring the oil companies down because they are too powerful so they want the government to give money into finding new alternative fuels. The problem with that logic is that the oil companies do the most research on alternative fuels, so all that money to bring down the oil industry is just going into their pockets anyway.

So we have another form clean energy that is better than coal but people don’t want that. They want to get rid of the oil companies by giving them money. So why are people still angry at the energy and oil companies if it is their fault that they are the way they are? Because I believe people are not happy unless they have something to be unhappy about.