It’s too bad
that I didn’t graduate right now, but keep the values of when I did
graduate. (Of course, many of you can
figure out when that year of my high school graduation.) There’s no doubt that if either one would
have happened where I am and what I would be doing is something different.
But I think
that it’s neat these days. I remember
the two occasions during the last month or so that I found out first about the
presidential candidates vice-president selection from my Sprint phone right
after work watching Fox News. Today, I
monitored the failure of the passage of the U.S. House of Representative vote
on the $700 billion bailout of the Treasury Troubled Asset Relief Program bill. I can watch now watch on the Web because they
had a camera shot of Obama on the campaign trail, the Speaker of the House comments
about the failure of her leadership of passage of the bill, and the O.J.
Simpson trial in Las Vegas.
It is a far
cry from when CNN was the only cable network that offered live coverage of news
events that affects so many parts of our lives. And with the Web now, I can be the director of the news stories of today’s
news.
I am pleased
really that the Treasury Troubled Asset Relief Program bill did not pass because
in principle I believe in the free market economy. If I work hard, I should reap the benefits of
that risk and hard work. If my risk ends
in a financial failure, there should be some personal financial loss. That is the overall principle of what I believe
the risk with the rewards. If we bailed
out the “toxic” mortgage assets, what industry will be next? Will the government bail me out when I make a mistake now for the
decades of showing up to work 99% of my scheduled work shifts?
