The Corner Commentary

I have been following some of the coverage on television about the auto industry bailout and feel that there is one important point that has not been covered. That is, who will buy all of the autos and trucks that the auto makers will be building? If so many people have lost jobs, homes and personal wealth how will they be able to afford to buy new vehicles?

It seems that it is a 2-part equation here, in order to build and sell one has to have buyers, else what will be done with all of the new autos? The government needs to look at ways in which people will be able to have an income and get the credit that is needed in order to buy these vehicles or else Detroit will become known as the "City of a million cars", since they will all be stacked up in rows due to lack of being sold.

Here is a tip for when FrontPage 2003 does not seem to be able to find a web site that one has been working on. Click on File->Open Site and then look to see if the address of the web site is in the list. If it is, double-click on it to connect and open it for use. If the address is not in the box, then go down to the bottom of the dialog box and enter it in the textbox in order to try to connect and work with the web site. also, check Internet Explorer and make sure that the "Work Offline" option has not been checked.

When President Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 (Mandel,2008) it probably did not enter the mind of anyone that 30 years later re-regulation would start to come back into play. But what does this tell us about how people act when they do not feel that there is any oversight of what they do? Apparently we revert back to the days when we were children and do whatever comes into our minds about things such as taking care of business properly.

Deregulation was supposed to improve competition and lower prices, but that did not happen everywhere as planned. Now, there are massive mergers, financial problems popping up all over the place, and billions of dollars have been lost. I think that when any new laws are considered that there should be more of a review going on, maybe put it out for the public to comment on via the Internet and see how the entire country feels about things.

After all, the whole population can’t do any worse than what the people in Washington have done so far, and maybe a whole lot better!

Reference:

Mandel, Michael. (2008, September 18). 30-year deregulation era dies a sudden death. Retrieved September 18, 2008 from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26774653/

What if we took all the money that is going to save the big businesses and instead used it to help the average person facing foreclosure? By making it so they were able to make their payments and stay in their houses, this would save the loans from going into default and so the big guys would get their money, people would be able to stay in their homes, home values would start to rise again, and the country might come out of this a lot quicker and in a much better financial position than it is now.

It amazes me the number of people that I come in contact with that still use weak passwords. Passwords like "Joe", "345", "pencil" which are so simple one might as well have a blank password-of which I do know some who have done that. And this is not just for the user account, but some also do it for the administrator account.

Then, after something happens, they come running to me to fix it and get upset when I tell them that if they had strong passwords that it might have prevented the problem. But, until it happens to most people they will not do anything to fix a weak password but rely on the fact that their computer is but one out of millions and so they go happily along feeling safe and contented.