Scooters, because i love that word.

Poor Pete. ( If you don't know what I'm talking about, read the post before this one first).

I absolutely respect everyone's right to an opinion. That's what makes us great ... a variety of opinions and views. Feel free to disagree. Democracy is furthered by a healthy conversation about differences in beliefs. Please do not just state that you disagree, and then say nothing more. Does the liberal left realize how arrogant that makes them seem? I don't agree, they say. Change what you believe, because I say so, they silently seem to proclaim. A lack of explanation seems to imply a command, instead of a disagreement. Pete, I want more. I want you to explain your views. Not cloaked in liberal platitudes, but statement of your beliefs, and why. I feel that I have done the same to my views, and if you want to have a discussion about why you feel I am wrong, please, feel free.

Somethings been bugging me recently. All in the news is the proposed bailout of the auto industry. Why does the government feel the need for injecting more money into the economy in this way? Throwing money at companies help in the short term, and hurts long term. Kill the goose, just to get at the egg. A French philosopher once said, "The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." What does that sound like? Bailout this, and economic stimulus package that. Failure is good. Let me explain. Failure doesn't mean that you stop doing everything. It means that you diversify, do something different. Failure drives us forward, ever onward. A man who is afraid to fail is afraid to try, and trying is what brings the most success. The tangled web that is the auto industry and their labor unions have strangled each other, and are now expecting the government ( and thus the people) to pay for it. Let them fail. If we stop trying to fix all the little problems, and let the correction finish off, history will show that America will return to it's former strength. We are a strong, vibrant nation, if the politicians will let us be.