(Serious) Rise of gang violence in the US

[Blakk_Majik]

So it's OK for the companies to go into debt in the hopes that things will get better soon

Companies have a bad habit of going into panic mode as soon as they miss profit by 1%. Even companies that have MADE MONEY during our current recession(depression) have laid people off. What does that do to people still working? Because hell, if the companies that actually made money are still laying off, what hope do I have for my job?

What I would like to see, for once, is a company actually show comittment to their employees. Layoffs cause a chain reaction. Once a couple of companies lay people off, others get fearful for their jobs and stop spending money. So nobody is spending money, more companies lose money, more layoffs.

but not the government?

Hell no. Answer me this, WHOSE money is the government spending? The government doesn't make any money, and I'm getting pretty sick and tired of them spending mine for things I don't support. In fact, they aren't even spending our tax money (that was spent years ago, thanks Raegan), they're spending our children and grandchildren's tax money.

So, how do you "restart" things with out it all going south?

You can't, but that's not the issue. The current system is broken and needs a correction. Guess what? We're seeing the correction. It would be over sooner if the government would get their nose out of business and let the companies that can't cut it fail. They're trying to prop up a house of cards that clearly needs to fall.

All of the companies that need these huge cash infusions are the same ones that were saying just over a year ago, "Leave us alone, we know what we're doing. Free Market!" and all that crap. Now, it's "we messed up, please help us". F U! You wanted free market, so let the free market work. Will it be painful? Of course. However, all of these "too big to fail" companies need to die so that small business can return to it's rightful place as the heart of American business.

All these pieces of scum in three piece suits want to privatize the profits, but socialize the risk and our "gubmit" seems more than willing to oblige them. After all, it's easy to spend money that isn't yours.

Change we can believe in. What a joke!





Edit: Mods feel free to move strictly economic related responses to the Economy thread. I think I'm a prime culprit in steering this one off-topic. *slaps hand*