The song, “Brother, can you spare a dime?” is a relic from a previous economic down time when a man who used to run a railroad is now looking for a handout.
We have changed our transportation from railroads to automobiles and a dime just doesn’t go as far as it used to, so now we are being asked spare a few billion.
I admit that I don’t understand all the bail out or not to bail out discussion that we have had the last few months. The subject matter is deep and somehow there is an air of extortion hanging over the whole topic.
But we need to remember that, while banks and insurance companies may sometimes provide useful or necessary services, that they don’t actually make a blasted thing. But we bailed them out.
So maybe it is not all my fault that I am a bit confused when I note that bailing out somebody who actually makes something, like automobile manufacturers, is suddenly so controversial.
Could it be that the money classes of our society do not respect sweat-of-the-brow laborers who might be union members and tilt a bit toward the Democrats , preferring instead to help out the people who sit in air conditioning and tilt toward the GOP?
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