People helping people
When a business goes bankrupt and asks for a bail out, it is because managers made bad decisions. How will they learn from their mistakes if we keep bailing them out? Why should our attitude toward business failure be so different from our attitude toward individual people?
I realize that a successful business impacts upon people. Business provides products or services we want and jobs that people need. But, individual people have an impact on us too. Good creative people invent devices and procedures that improve productivity. Good industrious people sustain a business and help it prosper. People who work pay taxes. People who are unemployed and poor, still purchase products that stimulate our economy. And most important they are people in need.
When our founders settled this land they worked together and helped each other. What happened to that hospitality? When did we stop caring for one another? The attitude I saw on TV is a genuine shame.
We must adjust our attitude. Helping people recover from their economic troubles impacts upon us all. As a society we do need business to provide jobs. But we also need people as taxpayers and consumers.
People make mistakes, I know I make mistakes. Let us give people who struggle enough help to bring them back fully into our society. It is the least we can do to honor those who pioneered this land.