COVID-19 Stimulus

[Millhouse]

(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)

During times of a crisis like what we are seeing today, I dont have a problem in helping corporations stay afloat that are being effected directly by it, as long as their workers are staying afloat as well due to them getting bailed out. Unlike what some here are saying, this is out of their control and aren't going under because of incompetence & greed.

In normal times however, yeah, I am not a fan of corporate bailouts when the company isn't ran well. I wasn't even a fan of the banks bailout back in 08', because the whole housing crash was due to massive fraudulence by the big banks that saw trillions vanish almost overnight. And then they get bailed out without the law coming down on.