“A sound investment takes into consideration the ramifications to more than one scenario in the future.”

Where was this voice the past 8 years, before all the bubbles that burst?

“There are billions and billions and billions of dollars in these bills that are of questionable value and on which it is nearly impossible to find a Return on Investment that will benefit the greater good.”

Such as?

” Is it possible she has a different agenda than the administration?”

Could you explain your typical right wing comment further? You are saying the Obama administration is not interested in the common good, but you do not explain why, dittohead.

Suddenly the dittoheads are the champions of fiscal responsibility.

That started in late 2008 for some reason.

You have no credibility, C”Rush”, and seem to offer only the deathbed lectures of a ideology on life support, and that is why your points ring hollow. You were an enabler of stupidity, and now, why should anyone still take a dittohead seriously?

At least with the Obama administration, the money is not being moved either out of the country or straight into the pockets of the wealthiest among us. That “investment” has yet to show any pay off.

DtM — Holly is most assuredly looking for solutions to “benefit the greater good”. Is it possible she has a different agenda than the administration?

“but what about healthcare? you call healthcare questionable”? Someone always seems to use the healthcare card. There are billions and billions and billions of dollars in these bills that are of questionable value and on which it is nearly impossible to find a Return on Investment that will benefit the greater good.

You guys have completely missed my point on the Lexus. Let’s change the example to a Ford Focus, OK? And then let’s assume that the payment is $300, ok? And my point is that there is still not room in the budget for that Ford Focus. It is going to get repo’d in 2 years, and the family’s credit will be shot, and it is all because they spent stupidly, only thinking about the features of the focus and not thinking about if they were in a position to buy one.

And to take it a step further, buying that Ford Focus today may actually prevent them from helping pay for their kid’s college in 3 years. He or she will have to go into mega-debt to get a BA degree. How sad. All because they felt they could spend their way out of a problem, buying the Focus.

That is my point.

I think we’ll have to make cuts, yes, and sadly they will be unpopular because (once again, and more so) people will hurt. But what do we cut? It’s easy to drive the Lexus and suggest cuts, DtheM. Is that why you suggest a “Lexus” analogy? You looked out the window?

And so, on to: How do we fix this mess?

How do we use bailout money wisely?

I think we need to regulate to protect the middle class’ ability to prosper, and make sure there are checks and balances. I’m thinking we’re not hearing enough about checks and balances.

It’s scary when the govnt steps in and asks for a CEO to resign and then suggests a plan for what would fix GM.

As Obama (and others) send out these “suggestions”, there should be talk of how the govn’t doesn’t want to be involved in making these decisions, but is doing so to help save jobs.

It would be nice to hear things like: and here’s the end, or extent, of our goven’t involvement. Once this is done and this is done, we’re at this point and this will happen.

Meanwhile, what jobs are being created back here? When does that happen?

So using my Lexus analogy, and Obama’s college analogy, perhaps the real question is this:

How do we ensure our elected officials have the wisdom to separate the Lexus from the college tuition? These bills have alot of each in them. Let’s strip away the $700 a month Lexus. Let’s not skimp on the college tuition.