You're right, just recently a contingent of North Carolina homebuilders went to DC to ask "where's our handout?" Led by our illustrious new governor and junior senators.
Folks, the housing market sucks, it just does. It's picking up a little down here, but it sucks. There's nothing in the US Constitution about the right to have the government bail out your particular business, because you didn't have a contingency plan for lean times. -- Scott Stewart ColdFusion Developer http://www.sstwebworks.com 4405 Oakshyre Way Raleigh, NC 27616 Phone: 919-874-6229 Cell: 703-220-2835 -----Original Message----- From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 3:37 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Government running GM? > Scott wrote: > Uhm.. no it's not. GM has already closed plants in North Carolina. The > successful southern plants are run by the Japanese automakers > What American business has become expert at is lobbying. Every business watches their numbers on an hourly basis and when they start to go down they pay congress to make laws that bring them back up. SUVs not selling well? Just lobby congress for a tax break. We've become the World experts at cooking our own books. and what's the latest fad? Buy American! (translation: first our business model failed so we had congress change the rules. now America's business model is failing so let's change the world's rules.) It doesn't take a socialist to know that when you've had a MASSIVE transfer of wealth to 1% of the population who then cause a financial meltdown which the population then has to pay for, and pay those 1% to fix ... ...Well something is fishy in Denmark. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:293237 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
