I have not borrowed on Prosper but would in a heartbeat if the need arose. It sure beats dealing with banks and helps a fellow investor at the same time.

Join me on Prosper and take a small bite out of the banking system while earning safer/better returns than the stock market.

This is clearly an idiotic position to take. A governor needs to communicate with his constituents and instead of using a radio program to do this I guess he can spend taxpayer funds to send newsletters or send letters to answer constituent questions that otherwise could have been answered on air. After reading the article, I continued reading the comments and was struck by the following, very astute, response.

News flash Chafee camp: ALL media is “ratings driven, for-profit programming” (unless it’s tax-payer funded NPR), otherwise it would not have the funds to exist, pay salaries, etc. If media doesn’t have any ratings that means no one listens, reads, watches. So I guees we can infer that the Gov will speak to non-ratings driven media which no one cares about. Or is he just not going to talk at all? Oh, one last thing: what’s wrong with making a profit in the media business? This is pretty unbelievable.

Mr. Udall,

Your support of a government takeover of 1/6 of the American economy is a thinly veiled attempt to permanently establish the Democrat party in power. Why are you more devoted to your party than your nation?

I am no big Republican supporter since they are not freedom lovers when it comes to social issues. My beliefs spring from the central idea that the individual is the foundation of the nation. That the government’s job is to insure that all individual freedom is preserved. That you can not make one man more free by making another man less free.

Mr. Udall, you are a smart man, you should know that government and government programs are not what made this nation great. Please, think about the health care issue and realize it is another program that will never go away and always cost more than we think is should like social security, medicare, and about a thousand others. Don’t you get tired of always trying to figure out how to save these bloated and inefficient programs? Lets put the individual in charge of themselves (novel idea huh?), no one is better suited to have ones own interest in mind than the individual himself.

I would not presume to know what is best for you Mr. Udall. If you are careless with your assets, so be it, you can live with the consequences. If you want to be thrifty with your assets, more power to you. I want you to be totally free to succeed or fail as you wish. Isn’t that a great feeling, no restrictions or boundaries to what you can do? Why do you think you know best how I should live my life? Why do you think my rights should be subjugated to another mans by taxing me to pay for the health care of someone else?

Sincerely,

Allyen E. Wilson III