No business allowed to fail, its the best way to run an economy.
Oh boy. Liberals to save girlfriend-media hybrid from fires of business reality.
Gotta love/hate it. Newsprint is failing because no one is reading it, and not because of anything else. Let the damn things fail and the newsmedia will crop up again in a more efficient internet-driven fashion, all the better for the technology and streamlining.
Democrats, however, are as shortsighted and foolish as possible, and they will gallantly spend our money that they haven’t yet taken from us to save such pillars of olde guard liberalism. You would hate to force outdated industries to modernize and keep up with the times (pun). Much better to save ancient architecture and pilot a sinking ship buoyed on the backs of the taxpayers, drowning under the weight.
Let’s for a moment say that they aren’t doing this to save their mouthpieces (What would Barry do if asked a question NOT on the teleprompter? Melt or explode?). Regardless, this is more federal guvamint taking over non-financial industries to “save” them. I wonder if talk radio would get the same treatment? We won’t find out soon, because they actually make money and are a positive force in the economy, so eff them all the way to tax day. Not only is it foolish to temporarily bail out a failing company, as it is prolonging the inevitable (the medium is the problem, not the March cashflow), but why is the federal guvamint picking and choosing who to save? Who the hell elected them to save newspapers rather than the gas station down the street? Its not fair in any respect, and its unconstitutional to seize businesses anyhow, as if that matters to these people.
There are good reporters at those newspapers, and each of them has their job for a reason. Most of those reporters/commentators are very skilled and good at what they do. Point is, they would fill in at any niche available or begin their own endeavors. Charles Krauthammer and others are in high demand regardless of the health of the Washington Post. Enterprises fail every day, and the best workers always find a new home. Its the beauty of America in action. If you have the drive and the skills, you can find a job. Failing that, you’re free to create your own damn job via entrepreneurialism. Our dumbass guvamint has decided to impair this process with our banks, and now with our media. Its difficult to imagine that this many Democrats would have been elected the last two cycles if anyone knew this and other hilariously dumb ideas would be the result.
One final thought: I’m very afraid of the media being in bed with the guvamint through any kind of bailout money or seizure. Freedom of the press cuts both ways. They can report whatever they want, and they are supposed to be insulated from the guvamint. Our guvamint is well documented as sucking at everything it ever tries to do, aside from allocating money to the military. Why do we elect people who promise to take over more responsibility? Banana republics and euro-socialist countries have state-run media and we supposedly do not. Why are we flushing the things that make us better than the rest of the world down the fucking toilet? Liberals have no freaking clue that all the laws in the constitution were crafted to keep the guvamint AWAY from the world around it. Has any liberal in history ever read the tenth amendment? Did they know there were ten?
/primal scream
