"Moonie Times" Op-Ed not Pro-Bankruptcy Bill

[LdyGuique]

Over the past few months, I've been monitoring a shift in the traditional right or conservative movement away from the fringe extremes. It doesn't mean that I agree with everything they espouse or that they agree with the liberal left all that often, but the tone is becoming more balanced at times -- a lot more thoughtful, at least in the Washington Times, usually touted as the "Moonie Times" in DU.

Today's OpEds are a case in point:

Alan Nathan wrote a balanced article,"Targeting the little guy," on the new Bankruptcy law and how duplitous Congress and the Corporate world are because it's only the smaller individual consumer who is targeted with a crushing bankruptcy law revision:

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On the other end of the stupidity-spectrum, the Republican political doctors in the Senate furnished us with a cure more dangerous than the disease. Financed by the credit card and retail industries, the GOPand 40 percent of the Democrats voted 74-25 to structure a law that abandons families crushed by medical costs or military displacement. If your 8-year-old daughter is hit by an uninsured motorist that generates hospital bills rivaling the budgets of most small towns -- oh well. If you were a once-gainfully employed man in the private sector who, as a National Guardsman, is called upon to risk it all for your country at 30 percent less pay and such commitment fiscally ruins your family -- thanks for the sacrifice, now give us more. But here's the truly inspiring part: While they're telling individual citizens to be more responsible with their debt through these newly tightened rules, the eligibility guidelines permitting corporate bankruptcy protection remains unchanged. It appears that this avenue of tough love is very much a one-way street.
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[gizmo1979]

1. I hope it continues

I couldn't persuade my senator,Kohl, of the evils of the bill.He said too many people were abusing it.I asked if he meant the people who lost their jobs or the people with huge health bills.He said he tried to get the alternative bill passed but in the end voted for the bill.What an ass.

[LdyGuique]

2. Well Herb Kohl operates a department store chain

He hardly views things through the prism of "ordinary" person