Lately, like everyone else, I've been freaked out by the economy and the future. The fact that I personally think the country's being run by a bunch of idiots doesn't help. I mean really, if I had a child in financial trouble, what would work better......throw money at the problem immediately or help the child learn to solve his own problems. It's the old adage of teach a man to fish. All we've done is teach this 'fisherman' that we will always catch his 'fish' for him. Also, why wouldn't we take the time to investigate how to best spend this ungodly amount of TAX-PAYER money, rather than quickly dole it out to people who obviously don't know how to handle money. But that would have made sense. And would have taken time. And we all know you can't have hot news bites for CNN if you wait and do the right thing.
When will we, as a society, learn to stop enabling people to fail? We have done it to welfare and the school systems, now we're moving on to the financial markets. We blame anyone but ourselves for our problems...
"It's my parent's fault." "I'm disabled/ADD/ADHD, etc." "The government should save me." "I'm a victim." ....and so many more.
I refuse to believe that we, the greatest country in the world, are victims. We have every opportunity, every luxury available but we continually make excuses for ourselves. We've become lazy and over-indulgent, waiting for someone to 'bail' us out.
I work for a living. I pay my bills. If I spend too much, I have to deal with the fall out. I'm not expecting anyone to rescue me from my own stupidity....unless it's a smack up side the head and them saying, "What the hell were you thinking?" If I screw up I expect to fail, and I expect consequences for my actions. I expect there to be problems and for me to have to tighten the belt.
So why should big companies be any different than the average American? What gives them the right to be more important that me and you?
KDH Catt
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