Wish Jim was still here...

[matthey]

Dear God,

I didn't think "Jim Could Fix It", so I'm going directly to the top. We need a super miracle greater than the parting of the Red Sea and on par with the raising of the Christ. We need the Amiga community to work together to produce a future. The founding fathers of the Amiga created too good of a computer to let it disappear forever. It would be nice if the masses could see the evil of bloat and turn from their deceived ways. It would also be nice if the abomination would do something about the biggest monopoly ever on this planet instead of picking on the "innocent" big businesses before all the jobs are gone in the U.S. Thanks in advance.

P.S. After further thought, you better get rid of the abomination first or we won't be able to buy any new Amigas here in the U.S. and we will continue to drag the world economy down with us.

[matthey]

"...We accept Food Stamps ...."

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."

-Alexander Tyler

The abomination in the United States grows as we come closer to the end of democracy. The tipping point has been passed as the ignorant and immoral have become the majority. As money is taken away from the successful and given to the failures, so is freedom with the result that everyone will be equally poor and there will be no one to invest in anything better. I always thought that Amiga people were a little smarter than the rest. Apparently, not always.

[matthey]

The scary thing about this post is that it is true and happening as I type this, except the money is not being given to the failures.

The money IS being given to the failures!

 The politicians that got it wrong are given more power and money. Look at Franks and Dodd. They were a HUGE part of pushing for more taxpayer money for people that could not afford a house and they are the single most responsible people for the economic crisis we went through. Were they removed from power? No! The republicans were removed from power giving them more power as the majority. They went on to pen the recent financial bill which does nothing about taxpayer subsidized sub prime mortgages or Fannie, Freddie, FHA or themselves. On the other hands, this new 2300 pages of regulations will costs banks and the individuals using them when these banks are going bankrupt (over 100 already this year) destroying jobs.

 The bailout money went to the failed businesses of this country rather than bankruptcy. In bankruptcy, the successful businesses get a bargain when the failed businesses are sold off. In a bailout, the successful businesses (and individuals) pay for failed businesses. We also payed to bailout people that could not afford to buy a home after we payed to put them in a home they could not afford. The result is that most of them have or will loose there home anyway.

The government is run by the corporations and the greedy CEO's are bleeding the country's middle class and sending all the jobs overseas with the result of only the very rich and the poor remaining and revolution the only alternative and it won't be pretty this time.

I don't see it quite that way. I think the businesses are the one entity that is working in this country and they are not as immoral as they may appear on the surface. Yes, there are problems. The high executive pays has no defense and there are a few greedy businesses that go for risky short term profits however the skirting of regulations (and lobbying) and sending of jobs overseas is just survival. The board members have an obligation to protect and grow the investments of the stockholders. When the government creates an uncompetitive environment where the only options are to cannibalize the company then they are obliged to do what they have to. Cannibalizing the company is not pretty either as we have seen the first to go being workers. I would rather see executive pay cuts first but we have seen a few cases of that too. It's not fair that these businesses have to compete in the highest corporate tax environment in the industrialized world (Japan is higher compared to some states, not mine) with high cost of regulations, taxes and government caused inflation (yep, we have stag-flation) which eats away at profitability. If the costs of doing business keep going up like they have in this now anti-business country, we will see more than jobs going overseas. We will see whole businesses leave and less new ones created here. This is already happening. This will make the poor poorer and a very few rich richer (that invest overseas and can stay ahead of ever increasing taxes on the rich) but this will take a while. The bigger problems than businesses are the other entities, the politicians and the individuals. I felt I needed to speak out here because your attitude toward business is much the same as our president. The more we punish business though, the more we punish ourselves.

@Franko
I guess you don't own any BP stock or you would be feeling punished by our abomination and probably joining in too. I didn't think the economy was much better over there either. I guess the government can take all our money but not your sense of humor .