Automaker Bailout Dead….For Now

 Today congressional Republicans and the president have stopped the automakers from receiving taxpayer funded welfare. This is the first bit of good news on the political front that I have heard in a long time.

 President Bush has already set aside $25 billion for the automakers, and while that is $25 billion too much, there is no need to give them an additional $25 billion. The $700 million bailout bill was meant to stabilize the economy, (we’ve seen how well that has worked), not to bail out every private company who jumps in line asking, where’s mine? Gimme, gimme, gimme.

 The automakers need to file for bankruptcy, reorganize, and then emerge with a plan to once again become prosperous. It is not up for the taxpayer to fund the UAW’s unsupportable demands any longer. It is time for the people who caused this mess to sack up and take the hit that they deserve.

 The bailout bill was vile enough with just it’s intended purpose but then expanding it into areas that it wasn’t meant to go is just, well I just can’t come up with a word to describe how vehemently opposed to this idea I am.

 Today was a victory for the taxpayers, it was a victory for the anti-socialists, it was a victory for everyday Americans. But it is a fleeting victory, one which will not last long for it was the congressional Republicans who ground this bill to a halt. The same congressional Republicans who stopped the amnesty bill. The same Republicans whose numbers are going to be smaller after January 20th.

 With a president in favor of this bailout and a smaller nuber of Republicans to oppose the bailout it will only be a matter of time before the UAW thugs and the automakers get their way. President-elect Obama is indebted to the unions and he will aquiese to their every whim. And there will be no Republicans to stop him.

 Today was a victory, a small victory, but I am going to savor it. It is probably the last victory I will see for the next four years.