While this spill is quite serious...and...unfortunately... will probably add more unemployment claims in the near future ....right now....... Someone who could lose their home, car, or have enough food on the table to feed their family... won’t give a rat’s ass about BP or the Gulf of Mexico.
Meanwhile... yesterday, our Senate continued to take aim at those currently affected, by rejecting legislation, geared to extending those unemployment benefits...while we deal with our country’s “over spending”...
So...I don’t see much change in attitude in our United States Senate. We continue to bean count... But, I believe that, underneath it all, lies an attitude which seeks to lay blame on “those lazy fucks” who are scamming the system and gives them a disincentive...to work.....so I thought I would repost my piece. “Let them eat cake”...rayray
Arrogance...and unemployment... “let them eat cake”
Lately, I have been troubled by recent events taking place in the United States Senate, by senators, who are purposefully delaying the passage of, much needed, continuation of unemployment benefits...While they haggle over where it fits on the balance sheet of this nation... Have we become bean counters? Is that what this is all about; having a perfect United States balance sheet? Our country’s balance sheet is not one to write home about..
If Senator Bunning’s house was ablaze, would he want a debate down at the fire house, that we haven’t accounted for the water, needed to put out the flames ?...
Or, what about if Senator Alexander needed an emergency appendectomy, would he want the hospital to consult the accounting department while he lay dying on the table?
While these Senators may not think the loss of unemployment benefits, constitutes an emergency, because their life is secure financially, for many Americans this week has been an absolute emergency week from hell... with significant stress and uncertainty...and fear for their family’s livelihood...or their own.
Are they so completely out of touch with the principles that make our country great?....It is a democracy for the people...
And.. while accounting is vital to a fiscally sound America...it isn’t the bottom line.... that counts right now....we have to extend ourselves further..., to our citizens who need it most...not corporations nor countries..We should be supporting the unemployed while we reconcile the balance sheet, instead of withholding the funds until we reconcile...
That is simply as arrogant.... as the Old expression from the pre-revolutionary French...and associated ...with Marie Antoinette....“Let them eat cake....or in French.. “qu’ils sont mangent le brioche”
The French people were poverty stricken and hungry for their staple food...... bread ...so how could they possibly afford cake? ..or... brioche.. The aristocracy was callous and completely out of touch with the people...and it ultimately became there undoing...through revolution, shortly after our own......American revolution.....
This is not an accounting issue at all; it smells of the same arrogance....
Arrogance comes from Latin ...by definition:
An attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions....
It’s also very Arrogant..
Exaggerating or disposed to exaggerate one's own worth or importance often by an overbearing manner
Both of these Senators have become intoxicated with their own self importance...Imagine that...one man can hold up an entire process in our Country....look at me... Atlas holding up the world.....Their arrogance will not be forgotten at the polls either...We will remember you, Senators’....you are the ones who chose arrogance over decency...
If they were really in the trenches with the average American they would easily see that not only is it morally, proper to release these emergency funds, but to take stock and completely re-focus our entire efforts to support job creation and put our own people back to work. And get on with rebuilding our own country...and restore our own confidence in our own elected leadership..
Leadership should have nothing to do with arrogance, or power... but everything to do with greater understanding and being able to effectively get results....
Leaders are in touch with issues; regarding people...leaders can see the bigger picture...
Leaders don’t allow power to influence decisions, but duty...
Leaders don’t consider themselves superior to others; they believe that they are equals, who embody the greater good for all, not just for their own glory...
Our leadership bailed out major institutions, banks and financial companies, while we fight wars in far away places..One day AIG is closing its doors, the next year they are realizing billion dollar profits from sales of its entities....
It's time to put our money where are people are..
And if they insist of placing these funds... on the balance sheet...then put it in... Amongst one of.... the thousand other footnotes..... on our United States balance sheet...
*** label it...... for us.....
