Where's MY bailout?

I thought maybe I would write this blog to share about my life and its goings-on, how just full of life! I am, and how a single guy makes it in a married world. But can we do anything else politically to piss me off?

So GM, Chrysler and Ford now want their piece of the pie. They are collectively asking Congress for a $25 billion (BILLION!) bailout for their woes. I totally understand: all those Wall Street honchos got their $700 billion, why can't they get some?

Well, maybe we shouldn't have given $700 billion to companies going belly up (which, by the way is about $57,341.96 per person over the age of 18 in the US) in the first place. Maybe we were just supposed to suck it up, tighten our belts and figure out Plan B without the Wall Street gurus getting their bonuses. Maybe we were supposed to give $57,341.96 to each adult American and see what happens to the economy from that. Oh, wait. We can't. WE'RE BROKE!!!
(see that little square in the right? $57,341.96 is close to how much I have to pay to get this country out of this predicament.)

But now, $25 BILLION MORE?!!?!? For a conglomerate of antiquated albatrosses that can't make a car that gets more that 20 mpg ?

OK - so let's put this in a historical analogy. Billions of years ago (unless you're a Creationist, in which case it was 500 years ago or something like that), there were dinosaurs. Lots of them. Lets say there were 3 biggies: The Sebringasaurus, the Saturnasaur, and the Explorerodon. But then there was something awful that happened, and they died off. Most of them, anyway.

Some survived. Because of their genes, or adaptability, or maybe just luck, they survived and are still around. The Mazdasaurus Rex, the Nissanaridon, the Yugo. Still around because they adapted to their environment and able to co-exist with other species.

Are we playing with Mother Nature if we bail these guys out? What if all the dinosaurs survived? Would we be where we are? I mean, we know how to avoid sharks and alligators, but I don't think I can outrun a velociraptor. (I think I can outrun a Yugo, though).

And anyway, I don't think the great dinosaurs were holding hands with the oil companies and lobbyists, thank God. They'd still be alive and receiving billions of dollars if they had.