The key is not whether the bailout is a "get out of Jail for free" card or not...it's what HAPPENS with the individual AFTER he/she is out of jail. Or whatever the circumstance.
Did they learn anything from the experience?
Did they change any life-pattern that was going astray?
Did they, truly, make a change in their path they were heading?
If yes, then it was worth it.
If no, then you have the current situation that we have to deal with every day...recidivism...
Ask a parole board what they use as a standard for 2nd chances...
Ask yourself what constitutes letting the kids off a "punishment" for deeds done badly...
How many "unknown benefactors" have influenced your own lives for whatever reason, and you didn't know at the time, but do now? Do you want a "do over" that takes the other tract just to see how you'd have to deal with the outcome?
Each of us has a certain level of "acceptance" that we equally apply to all. Then comes the time when the "equally" isn't so...
And then we judge the others in harsher terms than we'd judge our own.
Politics will never be level...any way you look at it...and it stems from the belief that the other side had advantages that weren't available to all...just a "select few" - and then the class warfare begins, whether it be about skin color, financial gain or loss, social status (or lack of), educational chances and advantages, just to name a few...
So what that Bush I. got Bush II. a break or five?
Does that mean that "O" gets to be "Executor-Penmeister" and run around the COTUS, SCOTUS, or Congress, for that matter?
TIT for TAT?
He said/He said?
You did too!/I did not!/Did too!/Did not!
I smell anarchy on the horizon...
