This is for the one or two of us 'old people' hanging around GameSpot (Heaven only knows why). American Blue Collar worker here. Another seemingly un-educated, small electronic nobody, who thinks voicing his opinion on the internet is a kind of power, let alone writing it in a game website. Well, I'll take what I can get, just like the type of folks and ideals I'm about to present here. An old aquaintance of mine recently lost a full time breadwinning job, because of idiot managers.
Bailouts.Why weren't they an issue 70 years ago? Many businesses are gone due to a lack of financial know-how, or harsh competative market. Such is the way of American capitalism. You risk becoming extinct if you can't keep alive in the financial environment. This is the nature of the capitalist engine. Studabaker, Ma Bell (Bell Telephone Company), Bank America. All now gone companies, testament to that nature. What function can a bailout serve, other than to unfavorably prolong the death of something destined to happen in the financial world? If foolish boneheads were running the place, then the bailout money is just giving them more opportunity to continue the foolishness. Where jobs are concerned, the same idea applies-employees will continue to work somewhere that proved it has no future. Just give each of those employees the bailout money-they are actually paying taxes on it afterall, and will require something to tide them over until another taxpaying job is available elsewhere. Not a secretary's fault that their boss was a financial idiot. Hardly a farmer taxpayer's fault when a big company he never heard of couldn't keep alive, either. Why is he paying for them to live on borrowed time? GMC wants a handout- What? Again? They are United States Government property now already.Government bailout money gives that government a claim on whoever takes it.Think about that and apply it to any potential future bailout. Unsettling. They are now unspoken Vassals of the State.
Nobody recalls those days when a kid had to actually try out for a sports team. If you couldn't play on the team competantly, the team wouldn't use you at all. So you learned how to improve your skills, or sat back and whined. If you don't know how to swim when you join the Navy, it would be a good idea for you to learn or you'll likely drown. If you aren't savvy in economic business, you have no business playing with an economy, or your worker's. Now theylay off employees as a result, but get to keep their company car.
What if all the United States has only work in the service industry- will that minimum wage paycheck finally curb government spending? Raising the minimum wage continuously is perhaps showing this happening?
Why don't we recall all the American citizen employees making, and therefore spending, their money overseas? Is the tax going to the USA per employee paycheck (if any) actually more than the taxes the earner would pay on daily living here in the USA? If a company moves to another nation, perhaps that company is now a citizen subject to that nation, and should lose American privledges. Especially if they ain't making money for American taxes back home. Soldiers on overseas duty are not part of this. Corporations on overseas duty are, however.(Overseas corporations aren't under orders to fire upon an enemy, or to defend against the same).Lucky non-allegiance sneaks. Another reason americans have grown to distrust businessman and politicians who make spending our money their business. Have we no say in what our taxes buy anymore? That's assinine. Keep the tax spending local to the people who are giving the money, and let the Federal government get the leftovers instead of this other way around we have now. Please recall the Federal government is ALSO a subject to we the people. They are not our uberlords. Why are we just sitting back and letting it all happen, convinced we are powerless? Puts us EXACTLY where these foolishmercenary types want us to be- unemployed and dependant.
But again, I am just some electronic nobody posting a hackney opinion, in a small website full of kids, who probably could care less. At least you weren't assailed by another game review this time. Hope this was a 'pleasant' diversion....