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(03-27-2020, 10:47 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: I keep seeing and hearing people on both sides of the political aisle talking about how bad it is to be bailing out corporations.  Part of me agrees with that logic, but another part of me is stirred to ask the question "What in the hell are you talking about?".

Like it or not, corporations are the very reason that you enjoy life in the fashion that you currently do.  Corporations employ the majority of Americans, provide most of the goods and services that everyone finds essential to current life.  Are they in it to make a profit?  Hell yes they are.  Have you benefited from their very existence?  You bet your Iphone loving ass you did.

So, let's say we allow the corporations to fail.  What then?  Are you prepared to take on farming, making your own goods and tools, devising your own communication. energy and travel systems as a way of life? (Don't kid yourself, the vast majority would be lost without modern life in place)

Face it, the corporations are important.  They need our help, as we all depend upon them.  Not just for the jobs that they provide, but for the very services and life that we have all become accustomed to.  So, unless you want to go back to digging rows for crops, and beating molten metal all day to forge tools, I'd say you should get behind the bailout of the corporations.  (as ugly as it seems, just turn your head and swallow hard)

So in your mind if we let Ford fail, nobody is ever going to make cars again? 

I think the point is to stop bailing out irresponsible corporations so newer, more responsible ones fill the void.