by Stephanie Shu

Created on: April 02, 2009

To start off, I think the question that really should be asked is whether or not I should decide where you are going to live, what you will wear, or what you will eat every day? It can be assumed that you wouldn't like that very much, especially if I began to dip my hands into your earnings. What makes the auto industry any different in terms of government control? It is a sweetly sickening irony - flying to Washington D.C. on a corporate jet, just one out of five to be exact, and begging for a bailout because of a "broke" company. It is not the government's job to support a few companies while watching others fail. I'll admit, the adult entertainment industry is not really among the most respected corporations out there, but what gives the government the right to throw bank rolls at the auto industry while denying a request made by a business that also supports hundreds of thousands of jobs? How is it "just" to favor certain companies when the Constitution clearly calls for equality?

An Ethical Analysis of Corporate Bailouts, by Robert McGee, brings up the fact that undoubtedly, the government has the right to tax the people, and, without question, it certainly will, but the expenditures outlined in the US Constitution must be only be used in order to promote the general welfare, not to transfer money to promote special interests at the unwilling expense of the general citizenry, and certainly unwilling we have proven to be. Late last year, the associated press conducted a poll asking whether people supported the federal "bailout" of financial institutions. They found that a mere 30% of taxpayers supporting it. So now, not only is the government wrongfully depleting the citizen's funds, it also is forcing them to watch their money fly into the pockets of companies as rewards for creating the economic mess in the first place. And apparently, the government has yet to understand the terms "laissez-faire" or "free market economy". In a free market economy, the market is the main controlling factor that runs everything, with absolutely no interference from the government. So now, because government intervention is not justified in the Constitution, what is being done can also be called unlawful thievery. The more we look at it, it just gets worse. Companies should not steal, period, and if they ask the government to steal for them, they are both equally guilty. Shame on the corporations for asking the government to extract millions, billions, or even trillions

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