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The week's question
In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: PhoolishPhilip   😊 😞
Number: of 21944 
Subject: Re: SVB bailout
Date: 03/16/23 8:42 AM
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' It's hard for me to see how this rescue is not in the interests of everyone.'

It sticks in the craw. These vultures, like Ackman, are celebrated as risk taking job creators, heroes of the American way of life, but the truth is they can't lose. The political system they finance won't allow it. It truly is socialism for the rich and nasty, brutish capitalism for the rest.

I don't want my life savings wiped out in a financial crisis, but I also don't like billionaires being backstopped while the rest of us are wiped out from a health crisis, or buried under student debt bondage, or have our pensions erased when a vulture pilfers pensions they manage (2/20 with little taxation), or closes pension funds of companies they bankrupt.

There must be a way for these risk takers to be held accountable for taking risk, or maybe we should backstop the health and well-being of families in the same way we backstop billionaires money.

The worst part of this is that the wealth the government backstopped will be used to finance campaigns against 'big government'.

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