So you believe your 9th grader is being told how great the USSR was by his history professor?

In this article he is suggesting that colleges and grade schools are teaching our kids to be communists. This is not serious thinking. Nearly every single college has a policy in place that prevents profs from proselytizing (unsure of spelling). They are allowed academic freedom as long as it sticks to the syllabus. I can guess the response to this, so let me just say that whatever transformation taking place in this country is happening because it is a natural occurence. Civilizations evovle, time stands still for no man (including those who want to maintain a Norman Rockwell vision of the USA). If I were Mr. Sowell I would worry about 1 book, the ONLY book worth building a country around, you know the one...

Ok. Let's agree that neither one of has a time machine nor a crystal ball. That means my assessment & yours is really our "guess" at what GM would have looked post-restructure. With that said, perhaps we can agree that GM would have shrank considerly, with fewer brands. Is that okay? If so, are we not also saying many many jobs go up in smoke? My guess is you have seen a restructure or two & so have I. That's devastation considering the size of GM and all of the tertiary vendors etc. Again, you are using a business perspective (mentioned in the original post) & I think its like judging a movie like The Matrix with a Citizen Kane yardstick. See it for what it was... a bailout!

I did not mention Bush's name once. I would feel the same under any administration. No bid contracts are typically a bad deal ... I tried to make my post neutral.

By the way, I have always wanted more accountability around all of the "no-bid" military contracts handed out that totaled billions of taxpayer dollars. I believe that was a far worse use of tax dollars. Paying $600 to a contractor to do military laundry... the list is endless. One day, someone is going to do a really good documentary about Haliburton, Black Watch etc.

After reading some of the comments I get the impression people believe the Gov't was conducting itself as an authentic corporate entity. All it ever was in this saga was a "last gasp" measure. For example, a parent who bails out their 30 yr daughter who gets too far into credit card debt and is close to losing her apartment /lights etc. You don't really expect to get the money back, you just don't want your daughter out on the street sleeping on borrowed sofa cushions. That's all this really was. Too many people here are not willing to "balance" the anger over using taxpayer dollars with the impending devastation of the auto industry during a big sell off. Gov't Motors sounds a lot better than China Motors. Glass half full guys...

You miss-read my statement. I clearly state the ban expired. Read the 1st 9 words of my post. No worrys. For the record, I would rather collect samurai swords and old tribal weapons. Assault rifles are cowardly if you really think about. Hiding behing 100 round clip. Meet me in an open battlefield with a sword and shield or club or etc.

Name calling... that always moves the conversation fwd. I am sure you teach you children to behave the same way in debates. Anyway, your point about evil people need to re-trained or punished, is just WEIRD. How do you re-train a brain that has a genetic malfuntion or pervasive chemical imbalance? My question to you is, how many more kids and/or people need to be gunned down before you are willing to at least entertain bringing the law back? And NO, the answer is not to give shot guns to school principles or encourage more people to carry conceal weapons, so they are PREPARED to kill someone at ALL times. [

From what I heard, the Assault Ban Law expired a few years back... I am pretty sure that happend, it has been all over the news lately. The mother owned an AR ... & I think an AK. Either way they are "semi" automatic weapon not fully automatic which are still illegal to own. I am not sure what your point is, I was just saying this article missed the "actual" debate entirely.

I believe the national debate is about ownership of Assault weapons. Those military grade, 100 magazine types. This article completely missed the debate & went into a "knee-jerk" defense of legal gun ownership. By the way, it is not the 95% of sane, law abiding owners we need to worry about, it actually is the 5% who do bad things. So 5% of the group deserves 100% of the attention.