I was on your wavelength the other day. I was thinking as a Government Engineer and trying to reduce risk to the operator of this widget I was specifying. I was thinking the following: if I decrease risk to one in a thousand from 1 in 10 I will have 2000 out of 10000 people using it, that means that 2 out of the two thousand will be injured. Now if I left it a 1 in 10 risk to the operator I would be likely to find 20 people out of 10000 that would use it and I would still have 2 people injured. Now here is the question, did I reduce the number of people injured or just reduce the risk so that many people would use it.

Risk to Reward, take away all risk there is likely no reward or no one will do anything and nothing.

Remember bailouts without return does not build anything but rather devalues the currency. It is my belief and I have not proof for this but my savings which is +10k is probably worth more now then it will be at this time next year. Bailing out the taxpayer through 2 months less income tax provide more value to your dollar then handing it out by the Government. Remember, the taxes are money earned by you the worker which gives it value to your Government. You working has provided that dollar value, Government printing money through debt expansion does nothing but reduce your dollar earned to something less than you thought. Everyone is talking deflation right now, but be warned energy and commodities are ficle investments and can change based on worldwide conditions. Oh there is trouble on the way if our Government continues bailing out industries and those industries still fail.

And the time is coming during and esp after Obama’s first 100 days when we will be able to make the contrast stark. We must be for cutting taxes, and esp regulations that prevent small businesses from forming and growing and that prevent jobs in construction and oil drilling.

Obama and the dems will face the choice in the midst of a huge recession of favoring green crap that hurts lower income and middle class workers.

We must be there advocating for liberty.

That does not mean we oppose his Keynesian public works per se.

One thing we must understand. The housing/credit crisis is THE issue. It changed the playing field. We must compete on it, and now is not the time for trying to correct the mistakes we made on small govt advocacy the past 25 years.