And more budget cuts

While our congress continues to dump the debt on the backs of the lower middle class and the poor (anyone making less than $30,000 per year had their taxes raised) we haven't seen the end of this insanity. We now have evidence of the 'death panels' only they're not as one would expect by doctors and some government plan. The government will simply defund any program to assist the poor thereby creating a death sentence. It's kind of hard to survive when your heats been cut off and food stamps have all but been eliminated. And we thought Obama was on the side of the middle and lower classes. He can kiss his second term goodbye. When the choice is between arsenic and cyanide it's no choice at all.

That's my two cents for the day. Got to go and help pay for the tan man's next spray job.

Budget cuts

I always thought Obama was on the side of the middle class and the poor. How wrong I was. After giving a few scraps to the unemployed on that last big bill ( not to forget the giant tax cut for the wealthy) he presents a budget that basically puts all the burden on the poor and disabled. I know this for a fact. There are cuts to food stamps, cuts for heating to low income families and cuts to housing the poor. And you thought the republicans were bad? Barack has taken the republican agenda to a new level. Trying to out republican them are we? They meaning the republicans seem to think this is some type of game. By stealing from the poor to give to the rich will somehow make this country great. No what you'll have is what we just saw in Egypt only you must remember our Army personnel don't work a second job as they do there. It wouldn't surprise me if they started closing VA hospitals. How quickly they forgot the reason they passed an emergency bill to improve conditions at that VA hospital.
And you just watch as the stiff regulations on deepwater oil drilling are soon forgotten. No need for oversight when it would cost money to enforce.

Keep your eyes peeled on the federal funding for police and fire. Always a necessary thing until you actually have to pay for them. So keep slashing away at what you think are unnecessary budget items until you've ripped the very heart of this country and turned it into your very own little ATM. When food prices are high enough that only the well to do can afford it just remember what happened to Mr Mubarak and a few others like him. People will endure only so much before they demand change. The change that's now being offered is only help to the very wealthy. Trickle down I guess means the blood that's running down my chest from the knife you just stuck in it.

This is my love letter to those up there on Capital Hill who've lost sight of what it means to actually work for a living. To them I send a dead flower bouquet as a reminder of what they're doing to this country. Happy Valentine's Day? Forget it, you already ripped our hearts out and I don't mean that in a sentimental way.

What have I been up to?

Busy all week. Just started a new job and now I get to see what the other half has been doing for the last several months (er make that years). It's a wonderful mix of insanity out there. Companies have cut back so much that it's nothing more than crisis management. Nothing is getting done very well. The focus seems to be on establishing more data than actual work. Everyone talks of lean management and processes all the while asking for yet more figures broken down into more categories. Is this a mere ploy to justify ones' position? I think so and if not then it's just a tactic to make it too difficult to be replaced. Harry used to keep those figures in his head until they let him go. Now what do we do? The report is due Monday and nobody knows the production breakdowns.

But the great joy in all of this for me is jumping in the car at the end of the day and not having to worry a single thing about such nonsense. For you see any job takes X amount of hours to do with X amount of people to do it no matter what job order number or classification you slap on it. All the yelling and threats of write ups in the world won't make it go any faster.

The pussy is stubborn

My statement on Mubarak: I guess when you're 82 it's hard to change your ways. My real surprise came when the military issued a statement backing the present regime. The names may have changed but the game is the same and that is to keep all the power and wealth in the hands of a few. They must have cut a deal with the regime and are unwilling to change as well. And why would the top brass want anything to change when they get a good chunk of the change in the process?
Something I heard last night put a little perspective on the situation. It took Tunisia nearly a month to rid themselves of their dictator. It will take a bit longer to oust Mubarak. He is fighting to protect his $70 billion. The world could step in and end this by simply freezing his assets. So until then it's the great game called the Mexican standoff. I think the people of Egypt have little to lose and everything to gain by continuing on with their protest.

That's my two cents.....
Bank fails later...

This reminds me how I'd love to have the job of John Boehner. Where else can you make over $168,000 per year and all you have to do is tout some catch phrases.

"Tax cuts"
"Spending cuts"
"No abortions for anyone"
"Government too big"
"The American people have said"
"No regulations"
"No"
"Hell no!"

What a job. Spend most of your time either on the golf course or at a fundraiser for yourself. Must be hard to stay sober long enough to present a coherent sentence when the cameras are on but then you can always cry as a diversion. That'll throw them off track. Oops I forgot he doesn't want anymore cameras.

John has definitely forgotten what an honest days work really is. What important bills have the GOP accomplished in the first 35 days of taking power in the House? If you said absolutely nothing you win a gold star.

Hump day

I warned you posting would be light.

Details later.... maybe...

A cat funny

Cats have more smarts than us humans. Why else would we wait on them paw and foot.

Later gater....