Next in the bailout line…
Brought to you by “progressives:” $45 billion in public handouts for telephone and cable companies?!?!
Your Monday bailout round-up from Beyond Bailouts is here.
And quicker than you can say “mooch,” the commercial real estate developers have joined the bailout line, too.
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If Comcast gets in line for a bail out I’m canceling my services with them, and going with no TV.
Those people are just flat out brazen.
There will be NO END to the piggies coming to the trough. Our leaders simply don’t have the backbone for it any more. Credibility = 0.
Bloody hell, I already pay a boat load of surcharges on my telephone bill for this! Not I have to pay even more! Agfter seeing how they spend the money I already give, ther is no way I would give more.
Cablevision keeps taking all my channels and moving them to iO digital. I suppose in an attempt to get me to pay the $10 more per month. It’s like how they keep taking away more cash lanes at the toll booths to get us to go with EZPass. Since when are the local AV club and town meeting channels formatted in digital? Can’t wait until I’m paying 100 bucks a month for the VHF stations I could’ve kept getting with the analog. This is insane!
Oh hell naw!
Unreal, but nothing surprises anymore.
Why stop there? Let’s start going retroactive.
Just as VoIP and cell phones are replacing “landline” telephones, telephones replaced the telegraph.
Where’s Western Union’s bailout?
Okay COMCAST, you want my bailout money, then I want the Ala carte menu. That means no Spanish channels, no Arabic channels, no home shopping channels, no food channels, unless I pick them specifically. The nerve of these people!
Hmmm… who next?
Well, obviously the press. Printed and non-printed. They’re all having a hard time ramming more liberal crap into our gullets and clearly need to take the money at gunpoint.
Then? Clearly the alternative energy companies are going to get billions – they can’t make a profit any other way.
Hmmm… after them? Farmers? No, they’re already subsidized. How about Airlines? Quite a few of them are struggling because of bad choices and bad management. That’s all it takes, right?
I gave up cable last year because it became just too expensive. What used to be just another utility bill went to an annoyance to the single most expensive bill I have.
I still couldn’t find anything to watch. Like Rogue says, a whole lot of unwatchable crap NO ONE is interested in.
The Pony Express, Studebaker, and the Harvey House chain are also demanding bailouts.
Hey, they are still around. Don’t give them ideas.
There will be NO END to the piggies coming to the trough
Hey, maybe I can get some parts for my Rambler if the Feds bail out American Motors…….
Here’s the headline I hope to see in 2010:
The Democratic Party has revealed they are in danger of going bankrupt. They are asking the Federal Government for an emergency bailout.
No bailout’s for Western Union.
My great, great grandfather lost his job because those #*&$@#& came along with their ugly poles and wires and President Grant refused to bail out the Pony Express.
It’s time to boycott any company that gets a bailout of any kind from the Government.
Let them fail because of their lousy business practices.
How about we bail out taxpayers. I have a two step approach. Lower taxes. Stop spending money on fortune 500 companies with high paid lobbyist.
Yep.
We impeded America’s technology edge by generations, when we failed to bail out the slide rule makers and the typewriter manufacturers…
The problem with that is that in our new socialist “economy”, there will be no consequences for lousy business practices…anyone who is boycotted and loses business will simply apply to the gubmint for bailout $$$. Boycotts become ineffective.
I am in line for a taxpayer bailout. I think it is at the end of the line.
More of the Socialist Gospel.
Now THIS is what I am talking about. Get pissed at me if I am tired of the big three threads. There is so much going on above what the big three is getting. Our politico’s should make them all lay out plans and, arterwards, tell them all to go pack sand.
Dude …
WHERE’s MY BAILOUT?!?!?!?!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
I guess we should all start being irresponsible and forget about consequences.
I’m thinking of starting a business to fail so I can get my piece of the bailout pie.
What’s the “Shut up White Boy” lady going to do with that 62″ TV if her cable company doesn’t get a bailout? Can’t we just give a $billion to every business on earth and be done with it? Capitalism seems so quaint compared to ravenous greed.
The Robber Barons need to have their names cleared.
Media Alert!
Air America gets in line for a bailout. Says it can’t compete with conseravative talk radio and the “fairness doctrine” is taking too long to help them.
/sarc
Exactly. That’s the essence of socialism. Suck the producers dry until they give up and turn to their leaders for sustenance.
Never fear, people. We will be saved by a President who learned everything he needs to know about saving America from Chicago and Hawaii politics.
I’ll say cruise lines will be next.
I guess it goes back to Bush. He’s not getting the wefare checks out quick enough. And by the way, I’m late on a couple of payments for my high def big screen tv. Where’s my freaking check?!
Oh yeah, don’t forget, Comcast had the Obama channel in it’s line up too. I guess that gets you moved up to the front of the line since “someone owes you” doesn’t it? hmmm…..
I heard on fox news this morning that the casinos are losing money, so I’m sure they will be lining up soon!
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!
I sure feel like a sap for acting responsibly and living within my means. I guess I should quit paying may bills and get in line in for my bailout too! I won’t even be greedy just a simple $250K and I would be set with money to invest in more canned goods and ammunition (already pretty well set for guns).
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!
We were obviously unable to stop the bailouts so far, what is there to do to stop the new ones?
Where will this end?
When will Americans finally wake the hell up and put an end, any end, to the lunacy of our out of control government?
When will we finally say “no” to unions?
When will we say “no” to Political Correctness.
My guess is that it will only happen after it is far to late, leaving millions of people to die in various ways from starvation to execution.
We make a lot of noise on the blogs, but main stream America still listens to the main stream Media machine. They won’t know they are in boiling water until they are dead.
I hear ACORN needs money to find new voter fraud techniques.
ROFL this is just way too hilarious.
I’m betting $5 the boy scouts will be next in line for bailout money. Who’ll take that bet?
Sad.
We itemize these companies to be the unfaced “they” and “them”; perhaps as a subconscious comfort of distancing.
But all these companies (from the Big 3 to your local bank), their leaders, and their employees who see fit to contribute their time and talents to said companies are people inhabiting the homes of America like you and me. These are Americans, our neighbors, the people we walk among in grocery stores, and fill up our gas tanks next to at the local Exxon. And they are look to the government for money (via a a figurative and literal gun to the head of their fellow taxpayers), and we on the conservative right are (as a whole) resigned to it via safe sarcasm and mockery via the internet.
To think we started musket drills on the Boston Commons over a tax on stamps and tea.
We are not who we were then, we are now who we don’t want to admit to being.
God deliver us…we are steps away from being a 21st century Nazi nation, with the Christians being the scapegoat of all “problems”.
I apologize in advance. It’s all my fault. Just ask my wife. I beg all of you for your forgiveness.
Or is that Wesley “Mooch” Paulson
On December 22nd, 2008 at 2:53 pm, onefed said:
Very true. The Nazis were National Socialists, after all, and we have seen our fair share of fascist activities in this election. On practically a daily basis you find Drudge headlines showing the expansion of Socialist/Communist power around the globe.
Nationalizing/Socializing industry after industry is not making things better, it is making things worse.
We, as individuals and as a nation, need to repent, turn away from Socialism, and turn back to God.
Telephone Companies are FAMOUS for not being able to manage their businesses. The same is probably true for Cable companies.
The telephone companies are regulated to make a profit. The second they look to lose money, they apply to increase rates.
If they want money for a business venture.. which is EXACTLY what putting in more broadband lines is… they can go try to find venture capital or issue some stock.
If the cable companies are going to fail.. Good… we don’t need them anyway. I can live just fine without cable TV.
Wow. Speaking of bailouts, bet nobody saw this coming. Outside of this board, of course……
I hear ya on why you were irritated by the Big Three threads and agree wholeheartedly that AIG and others were an even bigger mess.
However, I believe the theme here is the potential death by a thousand cuts. It all started with a desire to save the financial industry from bad loans and has quickly moved into other industries. The fact that TARP should never have been used for this is not getting much play in the MSM.
JonB #35: I share your concern. One way to get our fears and points out there is the write letters to the Editor for all of your local newspapers. You’d be surprised how many people read this first thing when they get the paper. Even if you don’t think your letter will be printed, again, you’d be surprised. The truth will out. Today, amazingly, I saw four of six letters printed in the Rocky Mountain News that were conservatively based. We need to ask why we don’t have a clue where all this money is going!! My phone/satellite bill is now as large as my electric bill. Enough already!!!!
Make the free market work for you (while you still can). Call your cable provider and tell them you’re thinking of switching to satellite, and see what happens…
The “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
We’re under attack. Just not with firearms. And the attack is from the inside.
NJ-Aviator,
Indeed. And worse than any individual terrorist plot, we are on the verge of having an unqualified combination Marxist/Leninist/Stalinist/Jihadist assume command of our entire military.
Unless the Congress or SCOTUS challenges his qualifications.
#46 – Its because we did that they want a bailout.
Here’s my list for new bailout ideas:
Unions – because only about 20% of Americans belong to them. The rest of us are too smart.
Illegal immigrants – becuase the trip across the desert in the overloaded van is considered a human rights violation.
Bankers – because their billion dollar bonuses are down to hundreds of millions this year.
Hollywood – because they keep making movies we dont want to see and wont allow our kids to see either.
Rap artists – because bling is not in style during a recession.
Politicians – because nobody likes them anyway.
I’d like to get in line!! I A NEW LOAN!!! show me the money honey!! (oh that maria bartiromo)
don’t worry, pretty soon the money will be worthless paper!!
Just one more reason (of many) why I’m canceling my DirectTV tomorrow. Seriously, is there anything worth watching anymore? I can’t seem to find a decent news channel. The weather channel doesn’t give me anything I can’t get on weather.com. And I don’t get much pleasure out of living vicariously through dull, morally-bankrupt, commercially-interrupted sitcoms. I’ll use each month’s savings to buy a new board game, pay my Netflix subscription, and purchase gas for travel to/from the library.
Speaking of which, are libraries on the list for getting a bailout? Oh, wait. Intellectual inquiry is the enemy of tyranny. My mistake. Instead of bailing them out, the government, well, the Army, has already closed one post library as part of a pilot program. That’s military intelligence for you.
Twice a day the cows make it to the feed troughs knowing the truck will be by soon. Cows are dumb critters but they know where and when they get fed-just like our new breed of Welfare Queens.
Just $50 billion in taxpayer money a “down payment on a digital future”, is that all?
This will not stop until somebody says NO. Go down to the Riparian Park here and they have signs “Do Not Feed the Animals”.
We need two more such signs-One in the Capitol and one in the White House.
Send_Me, we hardly watch regular programming. History channel, NGC, science, Military, etc., are the ones most watched in our house, with the usual sports. We use the TV as an educational tool.
I still wonder who is going to pay for this feeding frenzy. I guess my children and g-children are going to be struggling a lot, in the next few decades. They understand this and know I had nothing to do with it. In the end, the left will have accomplished its ultimate goal…control of the country’s economy, even though it will be a repeat of the ’30s. Uninformed people think FDR was great in “fixing” the economy. If they look at the facts, they will see it was a miserable failure. Obama/congress plans the same thing. Lord help us.
#41, my point exactly. People may consider this “over the top” and whatnot, but the signs are there.
The government having a say in the car industry, banks, and who knows what else at the end of the day. Today’s Nietzsches are Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens, etc. They are setting the groundwork. There need only the correct circumstances to lay us low as the germans were following WWI to bring out the beast in the Welfare King & Queen masses.
Just a guess, but perhaps the entire collapse of the dollar and impoverishment of hundreds of thousands due to businesses upending? National pride lay in our ability to purchase…as someone else wrote, we are a consumer nation. Destroy the nation by eliminating our pride, and the worse has just begun…
Joe Scarborough traces this all back to Chuck Schumer writing that letter about Indy Bank, way back when. Thanks Scmuckie!