Our Leaders

I don't know if the bail out is good or bad but it seems like our government needs to do something to help our country get out of this precarious economic situation.

Wouldn't you know it, our leaders screwed things up. The Republicans got mad at Nancy Pelosi for being political right before the vote so they voted against it. Perhaps Ms. Pelosi's comments were ill-timed but sometimes you have to put your hurt feelings aside for the bigger good. Especially when it means keeping your country out of a depression. Do they think helping us slide into a financial abyss will teach Nancy Pelosi a lesson???

President Bush (their leader, a Republican president) asked them to vote for the bail out and because they were mad at the speaker of the house, they changed their minds. They put their emotions ahead of what is best for our country. Don't they know that us regular people face things like this everyday? Sometimes at work or with our families we don't necessarily agree with the way things are going but we do things because IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO. We swallow our pride, roll up our sleeves and work on the situation at hand.

So I hope we all learned something from this. Next time, ignore the speaker and make the vote you're supposed to make. Afterwards when the country isn't falling apart and your constituents aren't standing in the unemployment line, you can make faces at Ms. Pelosi behind her back or you can put laxative in her coffee, but for now my friends, let's focus on the big picture.