Sunday, 22 February 2009
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My turn
After nearly $1,000,000,000,000.00 of handouts, a featured post asking for even more, and general sentiments of entitlement, I've decided that it's now my turn.I'm the college student who hasn't yet seen her $5,000. I'm the friend of military men and women serving overseas, whose lives are being endangered for no good reason. I'm the woman who could, even in 2009, be prosecuted for giving her boyfriend a blowjob ("sodomy" is still illegal in many Southern states). I'm the person who avoids going to the doctor, even though she has double health insurance, because the system is so fucked up. I am the person that everyone from senators to presidents have promised the world.
I have sat meekly, ignoring political topics for several months, listening to everyone else's laundry list of bailouts and privileges and laws. But now, it's time for me, too, to cash in on my inner lobbyist. It's my turn, for my handout.
So, Mr. President Barack Obama, I have enclosed a list of things that you owe me, which should be given to me immediately at the expense of everyone else:
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If you all want the economy to stop flushing itself down the toilet, then there's one simple thing you can do. Just stop asking for everything you think you deserve, and earn your own damn "free" lunch.
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Comments (14)
Indeed.
Thats why I didnt ask him for anything.
there was a featured post saying "I hope Obama can help me out with weight loss"
and I didnt even dignify the post by commenting on it.
What? Where was the memo that we could ask him for something?
@Gerald_Washington - I was specifically referring to the post which complained that the author had gone to college and now can't pay her college loans. Waah.
I'm glad somebody has some sense...I don't get why people think they're entitled to anything from the government. I mean, jeez. Nobody owes you anything, do you know what I mean?
LOL... WHILE FUNNY THIS IS SO TRUE.
Haha great post. I like your list; funny, mine is identical.
support your own way? it'll never work. ~sigh~
Word.
And stop saving your damn money. Putting a cease on your money puts a cease on circulation. Without circulation... the economy spirals downward.
what's funny to me is the average american worker is not being compensated fiscally with raises and such which will cause average american worker to spend which circulates... so as gas prices rise which prohibits travelling money and costs of products go up in businesses... people will spend less with money they can't seem to make... and you wonder why so many complain... it all to do with greed from corporations who don't see this trend and pay their employees less yet work them more...
my question is what is our president going to do about that?
@leadworshipper82@revelife - I would recommend the book Supercapitalism by Robert Reich, its all about how the American worker is the victim of corporate theft. There's nothing the president can do directly, but some indirect things would be passing the Employee Free Choice Act, as collective barganing usually helps. More power to the people. Another indirect route would be to lower health care costs by going after the pharmaceuticals (the most greedy of them all), that would alllow more employers to have health options for their workers.
You will see a huge difference when the President signs into law health reform and labor reform. Thats about all he can do for the issue you stated (in a broad sense).
@Bobby - OH FUCK.
@Bobby - i'm all for capitalism for sure... for me though i think that if people are worried about the econ... spurring it and circulating it but also allowing citizens to be given the ability which is why I think people are asking for such entitlements cuz they wanna be able to have more options to do... and if the President were to comply with our wishes the way this post is speaking out against... imagine the amount of currency circulation that would happen... people given more money to spend on more things which spurs the economy at the same time people would also save and still circulate... instead of the trend today which is to cap their spending completely....
my only qualm to that is the guy who's sitting at home in his recliner watching the Trekky marathon on the sci-fi channel while he can't make his hand take the trip from the bowl of guac and chip to his mouth as he twitters about how the world should be in his pajamas with footies... i heard this guy will get a check too... and that... i don't know... i would definitely have a problem with that while I'm out there working my tail off and barely making ends meet...
thank you for that. i think if u expect something from the government, then you just lesson your vhances of getting for yourself. we ar elucky if we get anything from the new barack obama leadership, and we probably will, but it will be a reward for trusting in the leadership. in fact, if we are given free hand outs like candy then it won;t seem to be to be a legit presidency. i hope he will earn our trust with good decisions instead of rewards early on thanks for this post!!
Ahh, but wouldn't it be so nice if people were responsible. Or hell, since I've accepted that that won't happen (how many people have been told by a financial advisor to make all the purchases possible right before filling out your fasfa to try to get more money), it would be nice if stuff could even work the way it was supposed to.
I remember when I started college more than a few people that got "need based" scholarships. While ever dollar that they got in scholarships was another dollar their parents put into their new car or computer, or hell in one case, used it as a down payment to buy the kid a house.
While there were more than a few people that didn't qualify for scholarships, because they made to much money. Now sure, their parents had before only made enough money to pay for food, and only kept the house because they already outright owned it, and with medical bills was going in the hole every month, so the kid was work 60 hours a week while going to school so they could get through school and send some money back to help parents.
In the mean time, though, since things aren't actually going to benefit you. Sit back, and get a good laugh. Laugh at all the "pet projects" that won't help the ecomony, but because they could be shoved in and passed due to the "pressing need to pass the bil". Laugh at the unneeded projects that were done because they "could be done quickly" becuase a quick and wasteful proposal was done, while well planned and well thoughtout projects, that would benefit the country for years to come, were passed over because some planning had to be finished to make sure funds were used as efficient as possible.
Though mostly wouldn't it just be nice if people recognized that a) capitalism has natural ups and down, and if you do everything you can to avoid every possible down, that just means that when the correction finally happens it will be much worse (simply ask all the "3rd world countries" that we peopel blame for their own fall, when its more that they were given no chance to succeed). b) the current plans to stop the slide, are "do what we've been doing except more frantically and while throwing more money at it". As well we all know that if you keep doing what you've always done, you will keep getting what you've always got.
Oh the the best part, I happened to read the other day that in some of the things that actually ended up not getting passed during the stimulus plan, that they are now getting funded via 410 billion dollars that had been budgeted, but never spent. So maybe instead of freaking out, we could you know just learn to use what we have, but alas, thats crazy talk.