Welcome to the You Choose Not Them. We are featuring the current financial mess. It weighs heavily on most of our minds today. On this site, you will find resources about current events; how we got into this trouble; what it will cost each of us; explanations for things like inflation and securities; and various solutions for getting out of this mess. We will host discussions on our message boards. Please join us.
Not a headline grabber, but a serious and bi-partisan effort to address one of the root causes of the current calamity.
Next stop on the bailout/stimulus whoopee bus is health care reform. If the government is going down that road, would they please tell the truth and not cook the books by presenting phony data in a scare-tactic way?
So, you think you know what a trillion dollars looks like, do you? Think again…
The so-called “Stimulus Package” is a goody bag for special interests. Take a look at what Washington state mayors want
It’s supposed to be a bailout, not a bail-in – Stocks tumble as Bailout Plan is Unveiled by Treasury Secretary Geithner…Oops
The so-called ‘Stimulus Plan’ is so complex (see the mind-numbing chart from The Washington Post) and the American people so divided on it (see the polling data from the well-respected Rasmussen organization) that it can only be compared to quicksand in a swamp: you’ll get sucked in and then drown. Do we really want to go there?
Economic stimulus package? Or a barrel of rancid politics-as-usual pork? You read, then you choose…
Public demands tax cuts as part of any government stimulus package.
From our ‘devil’s in the details’ department: bailout bucks bolster bowl game and sub-prime car loans – wasting other people’s money is the name of this game.
How many times must we say trillions of dollars before we’re used to it?
So…you think the government can fix the current economic mess? Extend the misery is more like it
Billions exhausted in bailout mania – time for trillions: State gov’s beg feds for $1 trillion for everything under the sun
2008: The year when what we thought we knew we didn’t know, so now we know some of what we don’t know.
After receiving billions in aid from U.S. taxpayers, the nation's largest banks say they can't track exactly how they're spending it. Some won't even talk about it.
Satire from The Onion, which means it’s closer to the truth than we would like…
Commentary from The Competitive Enterprise Institute – read it, then You Choose…Not Them
Read how ABC TV’s John Stossel, a regular on its 20/20 news magazine program, compares the scandal surrounding disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to governmental bailouts – what makes them both a scandal?
Read this, then you choose…not them
Hey, the government has agreed to bail out Citigroup. Surely we'll now be saved from worldwide insolvency! Right? Or is this a profligate waste of money? We have to level with you: this whole bailout thing has now exceeded the media's ability to critically analyze it. You've heard everyone throw around figures like $750 billion for the earlier bailout costs. This Citigroup thing includes a guarantee of $306 billion in assets. But think about this: according to Bloomberg, the US government has now pledged more than $7.4 trillion to rescue the financial system in the past 15 months. How much is 7.4 trillion?
Look, government…if you won’t do even these few right things, then will you at least cut us in for a slice of bailout action?
The Heritage Foundation in Washington DC gives some practical government solutions to the economic crisis.
We all keep hearing that deregulation caused the markets to fail. Is this even true?
You've heard that capitalism is the reason we're in this mess but maybe, just maybe,we've got it wrong and it is actually the savior.
A simple explanation of all the politics of the Bailout Bill.
Here are some practical steps President Bush could take that don't cost taxpayers $700 Billion.
Are we heading into a great depression?
Here′s a bailout we can definitely endorse – out of 2008!
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