Where do you stop? You don’t. You start fixing the real problems:
Of course, $25 billion to the car companies isn’t going to change
the fact that the roads they drive on are crumbling, that the people
who drive them are barely making the payments and that the people who
make them aren’t paid a fraction of what their CEOs presently pleading
poverty can boast.
President-elect Barack Obama called on Saturday for the type of
massive public works program that would in the long term solve the
kinds of problems that lead to economic collapse. “We’ll put people
back to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, modernizing
schools that are failing our children, and building wind farms and
solar panels; fuel-efficient cars and the alternative energy
technologies that can free us from our dependence on foreign oil and
keep our economy competitive in the years ahead.”
In the meantime, if we’re going to be bailing out those in trouble,
I really could use a nice new American-made hybrid car. One with those
heated mirrors that defrost automatically, really plushy seats and snow
tires. From the size of the squirrels in my neighborhood, it’s gonna be
a long, cold winter.
A.