Calculated Mess!

Tuesday’s $1.3 Trillion dollar "paper loss" was not caused by the American people’s revolt and congress’s “conservative vote” against the bailout package (which included 95 Democrats and 133 Republicans who voted against the bill), it was the result of years of fraudulent lending, irresponsible over-sight and a general distrust among millions of Americans who refuse to blindly turn over another ~$700B to the same group incompetents who allowed this to happen in the first place.

           The original bill that these same “brilliant liberal minds" also wanted us to pass had millions in failed executive compensation, money for ACORN and NO over sight protection - a blank check for $700B to fix their greed, vote pandering and mismanagement. Some may want to sign our future financial security over to Barney Frank, Christopher Dodd, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, but look at our economy since they took over in 2006 when the DOW was near 14,000, unemployment was at 4.5%, gas was $2.16 a gallon and oil was around $60 a barrel. Look at these numbers today – it must be Bush's fault!

          There will be a new bill passed – already passed by the Senate and soon by the House; it will be slightly better than the one just rejected and unfortunately it will NOT fix a financial system that has been artificially propped up by loans to people who never should have received them in the first place. Most Americans agree – that Congress must act to solve the liquidity crisis, but do we really want to govern for a one day loss in the market, without holding people accountable, ignoring the need for personal responsibility and rewarding the people who got us into this mess? Not me, and not most Americans!

          All this talk of billion dollar bailouts and trillion dollar losses has my head spinning. I guess us mouth breathing conservatives get a little confused when someone else makes a $700B mistake and wants us to pay for it. If this nonsense keeps up we’ll all need new calculators, one that can calculate the long term cost of government hand outs, ignores personal responsibility and complete lack of accountability – you know, one with room for lots of zeros!!

         I’d like to write more on this topic, but I’ve gotta go fly at my airline job. Maybe if I forget to put down the landing gear, stall the aircraft or taxi into the mud - the government will bail me out, but I doubt it. I’m pretty sure my passengers won’t appreciate my incompetence either. Shouldn’t Fannie, Freddie, Barney, Nancy, Harry, Christopher and the other irresponsible liberals be held to the same standards? We are facing an economic Armageddon that was started by Jimmy Carter, put on steroids by Bill Clinton and completely abused by Jim Johnson, Franklin Raines, Barney Frank, Christopher Dodd and the leadership of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

         I definitely need a new calculator, because every time I compare the war hero, proven legislator and America First, John McCain, against the far left, anti-American, socialist trained friend of William Ayers, Tony Resco and Jeremiah Wright I come up with poll numbers favoring McCain 100 to zero. Perhaps moderator Gwen Ifill can help me and the American people calculate and moderate our differences during the Vice Presidential debates. Unfortunately this seems very similar to government bailout solution by putting the fox in charge of the hen house. Somehow I think we’ll end up with allot less chickens and then be asked to pay for them. No doubt, I need a new calculator, because none of this adds up to the square root of logic, fairness or good old fashioned American common sense.

Michael Tetrick

Chicago, Il. 60657

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