Problems, Bailouts, and etc.

Been busy lately...work, AdventureBoy, and we rescued a puppy from doom. Just weeks ago we took in a stray cat. Both nice animals, but the puppy needs to be housebroken. The miscreants known as my step-kids aren't, shall we say, motivated to do what needs to be done to train the puppy, so a lot of my time not at work and being Dadman or training for the Ironman is spent trying to give the puppy the idea. Of course, the idiots also known as my step-kids don't pay attention to what the puppy does, so he's not learning the lesson that Outside is the place to poop, and inside is the place to be nice.

Not learning the lesson. That kind of seques into my thoughts for today.

The Bailout.

Don't forget, the Democrats started us on this road. They had the best intentions...but that is where Liberals often screw the pooch. They look at "the way life ought to be," instead of accepting the way it really is, and going from there.

The Way Life Ought to Be is that everyone should have a house.

The Way Life Is, is that when you give people something they have not earned, they don't appreciate it. This was palably demonstrated with Welfare Housing, over and over. People didn't own it, and they didn't care, and public housing quickly sprawled into unlivable chaos.

We also see The Way Life Is in the no-interest loans that in many ways are at the root of the current problem. Again, the Democrats pushed these bills which forced banks to give loans to people who may not have been qualified. Now that people are defaulting on loans they never should have been given, financial dominos are falling.

And, strangely, the Democrats are looking to us to pay for their good intentions.

That's a very persistent trait of Liberals. They want to out-source their compassion. Conservatives give more to charity, putting their money where their own mouth is.

Liberals want everyone to contribute. They have their own ideas about what should be done, compassionately, and they want everyone to pay for those ideas.

Again, see the Bailout. They wanted everyone to have a house...and now you and I are paying for their compassion.