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• Sunday, December 14, 2008 12:21 PM

  How about paying for the "mating habits of crabs?"

  All of you are concerned about “spending the taxpayer’s money to bail out the auto companies.” Many of you speak with such hostility, it is as though you will have to write a check directly to those companies to help pay.

  You will have to pay taxes whether these companies get help or not! Our government is always spending money. They never ask us if what they spend it on is OK, unless it is blown-up by the media. It's only then, we hear, “spending the taxpayer’s money.” If they don’t use it on the auto companies, they will use it for something else……how about the mating habits of crabs? If you knew where all of your tax money is spent, you would flip out.

  Then, again, if we don’t like where our tax money is spent, we can always move to another country!

  Maybe, we should keep our mouths shut and let them help the auto companies, because foreign governments already do that on a regular basis in countries with auto industries, but then, you wouldn’t want your tax dollars going to their auto industries if you moved there, so you’d have to choose a country without an auto industry. In some countries, government officials don’t care what their citizen’s think or allow them to speak out. So, you might be in a bind as to where to move.

  We have to look at ALL the repercussions if GM, Ford, and Chrysler, go out of business. Some of those repercussions might affect you without knowing it until later. Then you would be blasting those that blocked that help.

  Helping the auto companies is a sensible way to spend our money.

  —Daizin Read Daizin's other letters
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