so... you've seen the front pages, with all those downward trending arrows. all that red ink running down the front page would be our market, our economy, the future of our country. and while i've got a load of moral problems with digging out wall street after their reckless credit spree, it's clear the bail-out matters. stocks around the world rise and fall and banks fail or live to fight another day based on the word from the floor -- not the trading floor of the NYSE, mind you, but the floor of congress. and though our representative government can't pull it together to agree on a plan to salvage the wreck of our economy, they WERE able to agree on $630 billion budget bill yesterday. it was crafted in secret, voted on before anyone could read the 300 + pages and filled with at least $20 billion of pork for pet projects, and more for oil and auto industry subsidies... oh, and almost $500 billion -- a record-breaking outlay -- for the Pentagon for those twin regime-change projects in iraq and afghanistan. i get it. it's an election year and our congress people have to give back for the hefty campaign contributions they've received from big business, and defense, oil and auto give big in election years. but why aren't the little people getting together and teaching our representatives about fiscal responsibility by voting the bums right out of a job? try balancing YOUR budget on the unemployment line, fella.
i'm just saying.
4 comments:
so great to hear your voice! amen sista! how are you anyways???
I am so angry that we don't hear any of this! Thank you for being a voice to be heard.
That's what I always say to you--thank you for being a voice to be heard. And I mean it.
Yes... this is one topic that gets me heated.. what happened to being responsible and acting in favor of what the American Citizens want? If I could only be in charge of the world:)
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