Bailout yes, helping hand no????
Hambone’s Homilys – I’m Really, Really Pithed
I’ve just read where a senator from Kentucky blocked passage of emergency
legislation that would have extended unemployment pay for the millions
of American workers that are out of work.
What the hell!! We can spend hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out
Wall Street, Banks, and auto manufacturers, and we can’t come up with
a measly 10 billion dollars so that unemployed Americans can feed their
families?
And the effect is immediate. Unemployed fathers and mothers who had
at least that small cushion to buy groceries and try to keep a roof over their
head, will not get a check this week. Or next week. Or the week after that.
I’ve been following the comments on the Twisted Muser regarding
the changes that need to be made in America, and everyone who wrote
had good points to make. But one thing is clear to me, and that is that
we, the general American public, have been let down on all levels. Would
it surprise you to learn that the groups that got the most bailout money -
Wall Street and the banking industry – also spent the most money on
lobbyists? The politicians need money to stay in office, lobbyists donate
to the politicians, and the politicians march in step to the lobbyists tune.
In the meantime, people who have lost their job through no fault of their
own, and who are desperately seeking a new job, are now losing that thin
layer of protection from hunger and homelessness called Unemployment
Compensation.
I ‘ll tell you, folks, it just makes me sick to my stomach. We need a good
old-fashioned revolution at the polls this November, and it’s time to make
a clean sweep.
Yes, and the s.o.b. also blocked legislation that would have put off the 21% Medicare cut for MD’s effective May 1. Guess how many Medicare patients we are going to see at our practice tomorrow? This is a “Senate rule”, not a Constitutional rule. (And he is a GOP guy for your Dem haters).
New Constituional Amendment: Do away with the Senate.
Shouldn’t we be looking for ways to cut spending? Maybe not here, but someone has to start and bring attention to it. Just a thought.
Hambone is right on. We need to remove all we can in November but continue in the next few elections so that we get all the current senators also.
The new representatives and senators need to pass legislation to truly limit and control lobbyists. It is is simply too easy to buy the senators and representatives there now.
We absolutely should cut spending. But, lets not start by cutting the rug out from underneath these good citizens who
have worked and contributed to the nation’s coffers for years, and suddenly find themselves in a position to need a helping hand to provide for their families. Compared to the hundreds of billions of dollars being slung around by the current administration, 10 billion dollars is a piddly amount. Here’s a novel idea: it’s estimated that 60 billion dollars a year is lost to Medicare fraud. Why not hire and train some of these unemployed to ferret out fraudulent claims? That would reduce the number of unemployed and cover the cost of the extended unemployment compensation as well.
Hambone that makes good sense to me. Thanks for the post and the clarification.