'Live by the sword, die by the sword'

What is wrong with this picture. The same administration that did not see fit to fund health insurance for every child in America wants to come to the rescue of Wall Street to the tune of 700 billion dollars. My thought is “live by the sword, die by the sword.”

Republicans have a “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality for the poor and disenfranchised in the country. Yet the minute the financial sector gets into trouble the Bush administration is there to bail them out at the tax-payers expense. Let’s not forget that this trouble in the financial sector was caused by greed and the Republicans lack of desire to regulate big business. They made their bed with free market capitalism. Let them lie in it.

I say, let the chips fall where they may. If the house of cards has to fall, maybe we can begin, at last, to build it back on a firm foundation.

Sorry to all the invested folk but maybe we will learn that government is necessary to protect against the excess and greed that comes from free market capitalism. In the mean time, grab that bootstrap and pull.

Mark Schaefer

Penn Valley