Comments on: March Madness http://www.bold-words.com/march-madness/ Exploring how bold words can give life to bold ideas. Mon, 31 May 2010 03:27:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Shannon Ehlers http://www.bold-words.com/march-madness/comment-page-1/#comment-498 Shannon Ehlers Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:37:05 +0000 http://bold-words.com/?p=461#comment-498 I too didn't vote for BO but like you I think it's silly and unfair to belabor every decision, every move, he makes. He will make mistakes, but so would anyone, so let's offer support when he's right and constructive criticism when he's wrong. In some respects it might have been beneficial to have the 24x7 news cycle during the FDR era - if it had killed the New Deal, we may not have a lot of the mess we're in now. We all know what they say about "ifs and buts" though. What really steams me about all of the MSM coverage of the bonuses is that I think it is little more than a red herring to distract our attention from the real crime in all this - that the government is taking a more and more active (and activist) role in single companies (AIG is but one example, but is an important one). Not only do the funds come with strings attached, but the people supplying the funds (we, the taxpayers) have no say in who gets the funds or which strings get attached. The other high profile case du jour is General Motors. It is, I believe, unprecedented for a company president to be fired by a U.S. president, but welcome to 21st century GM. Ditto the lines in the previous paragraph about funds/strings. Thanks for a great, thought-provoking, and pulse-increasing post. I too didn’t vote for BO but like you I think it’s silly and unfair to belabor every decision, every move, he makes. He will make mistakes, but so would anyone, so let’s offer support when he’s right and constructive criticism when he’s wrong.

In some respects it might have been beneficial to have the 24×7 news cycle during the FDR era – if it had killed the New Deal, we may not have a lot of the mess we’re in now. We all know what they say about “ifs and buts” though.

What really steams me about all of the MSM coverage of the bonuses is that I think it is little more than a red herring to distract our attention from the real crime in all this – that the government is taking a more and more active (and activist) role in single companies (AIG is but one example, but is an important one). Not only do the funds come with strings attached, but the people supplying the funds (we, the taxpayers) have no say in who gets the funds or which strings get attached.

The other high profile case du jour is General Motors. It is, I believe, unprecedented for a company president to be fired by a U.S. president, but welcome to 21st century GM. Ditto the lines in the previous paragraph about funds/strings.

Thanks for a great, thought-provoking, and pulse-increasing post.

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