As I watch the stock market plunge and the Dow lose another 440+ points today, I can't help but to think of the trickle-down nonsense advocated by the greedy pricks that have brought this great nation to its knees. Sacrifice? Yea, I know the word. I know the word too damn well, and I've seen it first hand in my neighborhood, in my community, at my job and in my town. I've seen family members move in together to keep from losing two homes instead of one, I've seen friends lose jobs and businesses close down all around me, and I can only hope that my own job will last through this crisis.
But do they understand sacrifice? Those who fly to Washington on private jets to ask for handouts? Those who escape with golden parachutes after giving us golden showers? Those who boast about cutting 50k jobs or shipping even more overseas to cut costs and to increase the value of their stock, most of which they own themselves?
That's not a reason for us to bail you out you imbecile. That's not even sacrifice. You don't know the meaning, you don't understand the repercussions. Sacrifice is losing your job, your house, your pension, your health care, your entire livelihood, so that another may have theirs. Sacrifice is giving up something you cherish for a cause greater than you.
I don't see any sacrifice at the top. I don't see pay cuts and firings and foreclosures. I don't see an end to the lavish retreats and off coast tax shelters. All I see is fat cats begging for money and crying about a measly tax increase whose only consequence to them is that one extra house or those two extra cars. I see them scream "SOCIALISM" from inside their country clubs and yachts.
Well I'm not a genius. I'm an average guy trying to make ends meet, barely getting by with my service industry job hoping that I don't lose it. And I know, Lord knows I know the meaning of sacrifice. I'm smart enough to realize when I'm being fucked in the ass, as I have been, as my country has been for 8 long years. Now I have to watch those same assholes who've been raping our economy use our tax money to expand the size of their parachutes? Are you fucking kidding me?
When I was a kid Robin Hood was a hero, not a villain. When I was growing up my parents taught me that someday I may have to sacrifice for the good of others. It is time for these greedy bastards to learn that lesson, and Robin Hood and January 20th cannot get here soon enough.
cross-posted at www.progressivejunction.com