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I am very confused by this whole mess. I thought we were supposed to be AGAINST sweet deals for big businesses. I thought these companies were the very ones that were bribing -excuse me, giving large campaign contributions- to politicians to stop them from passing environmental regulations.
Aren't these the companies that produce huge, gas-guzzling vehicles that contribute greatly to global warming? Why do we want to give them money... so they can kill us all faster?
Why can't we take the $14,000,000,000 and instead of giving it all to these three, maybe split it up and give $1,000,000 to 14,000 small businesses? Or $100,000 to 140,000 small businesses? Wouldn't that save as many jobs, as well as strengthen the middle class? Why give it all to a few elites, when we could be strengthening the mom and pop shops?
As for the housing costs, I WISH they would come down to anything remotely proportional to salaries. Then I would buy one. It's like they were priced twice as high as they should be, and now prices have dropped and so they're only 1.9 times what the should be, so the people who viewed them as investments are losing out, but most people still can't afford them!
I've been following the housing markets around here for a year and a half, and prices have NOT dropped. The houses are staying on the market, at the same price.
