All I can say is that it makes me sick that part of the U.S. government wants to push this measure through.  Where is the lesson in this?  How am I supposed to teach my kids about responsibility and consequences when the government says to a particular industry, “If you make really bad decisions and get in trouble . . . really, really, BIG trouble . . . and you knew you were taking really, really, BIG risks . . . don’t worry about it.  I’ll just make sure you get a tidy little severance pay and then bail you out.”  Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to leave my kids out to dry all the time, but what lesson is the government trying to teach it’s citizens?  Sure, passing this bill may make it easier for me to finance the remainder of my medical education, but at what cost?  How much power do I want to hand to a government that can’t even balance its own books?  I was just looking at a national debt clock, and every time I clicked refresh, it jumped about $100,000.  How much more could this country do if we didn’t have to pay interest on nearly $9 trillion?!  It seems like our government is full of people suffering from a spending addiction.  An everyday Joe runs up his credit cards to the max then tries to get more . . . always living in a deficit, they have people calling, threatening if some payment isn’t received.  What happens when our government does this?  We just look the other way.  They are stewards of our money.  Are they doing a good job?  Enough is enough!  It’s time to clean out the career politicians and get some respectable, honest, public servants into office.

Publicly, I would like to thank my Congressman, Jim Matheson for voting against  H R 3997.