Where We're Going with "Where's My Money?!" This Week

@Andy Zimmer. There's a 3rd way. The founding father's way. As provided for in the Declaration of Independence. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

Wow- This is the best highly educated people came up with? Perhaps some less educated people can help them out. Give the money to the people, not $1,200.-go big! Those of us who have worked for over 20 years, now find that our jobs are gone with little or no options. If there is a substantial amount of monies given directly to the people, we will pay debts, buy cars, purchase goods & services and save businesses the way they should be saved. Main street is the answer not wall street, banks, insurance companies or poorly performing car companies. Who's vacation will we be paying for next? Where is the credit you gave the banks money to extend?

I have 4 children, it was my choice to have them, it is also my responsibility to care for them. If I buy a house and decide not to pay for it, or put my self in a position that I cannot pay for it, the bank will close on me, not even considering how many live in the house. Welfare may help me buy food for a time, but if I cannot afford my house, no one will help me pay for it. What gives the banks or industries (or our Gov) the right to take my money to bail themselves out of their financial responsibilities. Why am I paying taxes? I would have to file bankruptcy. So should they.

cody surely you didn't get that smart going to school at harvard. nice job disecting the bullshit on wallstreet. i am looking for a business editor at my new website. if you are interested drop me an email. we could use fresh perspective.

When an average citizen goes bankrupt they lose everything and all they're told is, "Sorry." When the auto industry or banking/mortgage industry is on the verge of going bankrupt, they're told, "We'll Help." I'm sure as hell "we, the people" gave Congress the "OK" to go ahead and speak on our behalf being that we're the ones that are going to have to pay for this. Folks, this is exactly what happens when we vote idiots into Congress and the Senate. Since we're the ones that will be footing the bill, shouldn't "we the people" somehow have the right to vote on this approval??? This is certainly sounding more and more like a socialistic government every day. It's very sad!!!

Great article...It is just unreal how we are being ripped off!!

Looks interesting Cody, I'm a little bit of a sellout here. "Hey, Bolling, I dipped my toe in and lost it, you owe me a toe," What's up with C. Witch hunt, or what? I agreed with your analysis on the meat. Now I have to walk around with no toe. Thanks a lot bro. Serves me right, bailout hypocrite. Hey I was looking for the Rebbeca Diamond Bio and all I could find was this lady named Rebbeca Gomez.

Hey Bolling, just in case this gets filtered, my toe. Where is it?

Bust them up. If GM wants a bailout then they should be broken into multiple companies. One board of directors with like 10 people on it are making the decisions for 250,000 employees and 3 million workers that supply parts to these guys. It's time to break them up like we did AT&T. Then if Chevy screws up it won't take out Saturn and if one manufacture goes down the suppliers can still sell to the others. Turn GM back into 10 different companies and maybe we will see the innovation that we need.

Obviously, no one here recognizes that the election is over... If we were so afraid of the economic calamity that confronts us now, we would have voted all of the career politicians out of office. All that these people had to do is promise more give-aways and exploit the class-envy situation and the "have-not" hoards voted them back in. What chance do us hard working tax-payers have against such a formidable adversary? What we need to do is make sure that everyone working, earning and paying taxes understands that government intervention will not create benefit.

I don't know how much to say, for fear of looking like I'm backing the current administration. But please remember, taxes are paid so the government can make the adjustments needed to keep self-interest aligned with national-interest. This includes "effective tax" levvied by the government printing money and increasing debt. That money is under no obligation to be divvied up "fairly," merely "effectively." Those who want to argue that it was an inefficient solution to the problem are welcome to do so, but don't make the "its not fair" argument... for it never should be "fair" in the first place. Philosophy aside **dons a political hat** did people really vote out a republican for spending too much and put a democrat in his place? For all of our sakes, lets hope Obama is willing to diverge from the party line enough to offset democratic houses and senates.

Thanks to Cody for a great discussion. Way more attention needs to be pinned on George Soros and his purchase of the Democratic Party. The Media Conglomerates pushed Soros agenda under the cover of the Hate Bush messages. The Media darlings were upset over the Stem Cell and Global Climate Change rebuffs that Bush had to make as Policy. The Carter/Clinton Administration Media stratedgies worked again. The combination of Sub-Prime Mortgages and the Mark-to-Market Accounting scam set up the economic demise. The Oil Price Speculations triggered the slide. All of these economic moves had been practiced in Malasia and the Soviet Bloc breakup so this outcome was predictable and assured. That is just the stuff we can see. You can bet there is behind the scene activity we may never be able to prove especially with the Clinton re-treads now covering all their tracks. There had to be an ecomomic collapse to get the current crop of Democrats in controll of the House, Senate and White House. GoodBye USA. That is Soros' goal this trip. For all my fellow Boomers you must figure out why you were attacked by the Drug Lords in the 50's and 60's. The only way to keep the Boomers from organizing and imposing their collective wills was to put them into a total stupor with the Sex, Drugs and Rock'n'Roll social assaults. We have fought through most of that and we need to now organize and stop this maddness before it can not be stopped. We need to rally around an issue. I say we must save the Social Security System and Put the Money Back In. Force the US Government to pay off the IOU's before this Government is collapsed to keep from having to admit it's crimes and return that money. That is the only chance we will have any funding to rebuild this country. You want to march on Washington, Make Saving the Social Security System for those of us who have paid in all our working lives the Rallying Cry. Put it Back. Thanks again Cody

The only way to take back Washington is to do one of two things. Vote the rats out or run for office yourself. I prefer the latter. ZIMMER 2012 We need to take Washington out of the hands of the career politicians! I approved this message. Andy Zimmer

Since Jacob Needleman won't be on the show ? I can't watch this time.

So the Big 3 Want bailout funds. Fine, then the government would have to mandate that they buy all their supplies from U.S. Companies. This would help stimulate the U.S. economy and keep U.S. made cars U.S. made.

To the author: I wonder if you were a recent graduate who depended on a modest bonus to help pay down the huge burden that is placed on you in exchange for bettering yourself by attending graduate school, you would not be writing this. No matter how thin you slice it, there's always two sides to a story.