This is a diary I do not really know how to start. Angry, disappointed and frankly just disgusted...I thought about the actions 41 GOP Senators and Ben Nelson took today to kill any hope for unemployed job seekers. Where do they go.....better yet, were does this end?
For 8 long weeks, the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has tried to get a simple bill-HR 4213 passed. For 8 long weeks, negotiations to pass this bill with the minority GOP Senate, has failed.
This is why, when Democrats have the power, they should have took advantage of, but did not. To end the rule of a 2/3rd majority; known a closure. Instead, the Democratic Leadership left this seriously "pass-its'-time" procedure in, to appease the GOP.
One has to wonder, "Do they get it?" They, being the Democratic Leadership. The Republicans and our favorite "turncoat" Ben Nelson (D-NE) do not believe in playing fair ball. Not when a upcoming election is at place in November 2010.
Not when they can have the opportunity to give more tax breaks to the 10 percentile (the ones that hold 90 percent of the wealth, yet only make up 10 percent of this country).
See, understand, it is not about playing fair....it is about control. America, for the most part, look at communist countries across the world and shake their head in disgrace. See, we were taught in public or private grade schooling, that one party rule would be against the core principals of our Constitution.
This is were we are, as citizens'.....Hookwinked.
See the one that controls the money, the power and the business....also controls this country.
Back to the 10 percentile. The GOP wants to lay down with the sheep (the 10%). Hell, most of them are in the 10%.
What they want exactly is.....slave labor, similar to China and the like. See the 10 percentile want to hold all the wealth. That way the 90 percentile will have no choice but to beg the the 10 percentile....for the pennies or crumbs they will provide to the "little people".
Class warfare, at its' finest. Rich against poor, power against the powerless; taking the voice, will and fight against those who cannot defend themselves.
We are at a critical place in this country. A critical scary place. It started years ago with the Air-Traffic Controllers during the Reagan Administration.
The retirement "safety net" the Pension, was first destroyed during the days of Caterpillar. Then, it when to the "Welfare Queens" of the late 80's and early 90's.
On the agenda next was those "Autoworkers" making a huge lie of $70 bucks an hour. Also the teachers who need to take "pay cuts" first and then teach in for-profit schools, second.
Now, the former workers that are now unemployed though no fault of their own.....who paid into the Unemployment Fund, are demeaned to be "Drug-Addicts" by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT).
We are 20 years or so late, to the game. You see, class warfare has been the underlying tone for many years now. The 10 percentile, with the help of the GOP knew their game well.
First, turn the middle class against the poor, then turn the middle class against the middle class and finally, destroy them all.
It is high time that we recognize that it is time to, raise up. Raise up and help our brothers and sisters who are fighting to stay afloat. Ensure that the ones' who are making it (decent salaries, can afford their bills) stay there or improve their financial security. WE ARE ALL IN THIS, TOGETHER.
If not.....the rich in 5 years will look like the communists we heard about, so many times before and we will be the indentured slaves of the next generation.