[Hoot Gibson]

Its a very complicated system any way u look at it. Do We have big Government Or Not?

I'm being consistent. At least trying to be. I agree with you on certain things. Private investors are different then the Us government.

The property rights of American citizens are among our most treasured possessions and the cornerstone of our economy and system of government. The federal government should not have bailed out companies that were managing their money foolishly. The government should have required companies to negotiate concessions from company managers in advance of any buy outs. They had no right to do the bail outs and then change the rules for the employees who were holding signed legal contracts.

What Feinberg did was actually legal and made some sense (pressuring companies to cut future manager salaries to recoup the bonuses) but many Democrats and a few Republicans were clamoring for the Obama administration to illegally slash bonus payments covered by the contracts. Of course, in practice many of those managers would simply move to a new job than accept large salary cuts.

Big government does not make for good government. Whenever possible, I side with private individuals and corporations in disputes involving the federal government. Our elected leaders are doing a poor job managing government and they are not qualified to "reform" our economic system.