Sorry, make that, "Hire Someone, Please."
Because it's up to us.
Then again, it's been up to us since 2009. Oh, sure, it'd be great if we could shake out a few billionaires of our own, but they seem to have better things to do.
So, again, still, whatever, we, the rank and file, the middle class, even the less than middle class, have to do what we can to kick this moribund economy in the ass.
Because that's the only game they got left. And they're working it like a hungry dog with a bone. The new employment numbers are giving 'em just the breather they needed after the gut punch of Bain and Caymans.
Their pals are squatting on two trillion or better in capital while the middle class is terrified to buy an extra set of clothes. Their allies in Congress are making good on their vow to block everything the president is trying to revive the economy.
We can't count on help from big money or big power. We have to save this country, its economy and its middle class, one stinking job at a time.
I just got off the road and damn near every cent I made is going to the household and medical bills.
But the tiny bit left is going to people. Not in charity, but in wages. This weekend, I'm hiring three guys to help finish a job I started months ago. They're good, they know their work and they need the dough. One's trying to make the note on a humble house he just bought. Another's trying to finish school. Every little bit helps and what little they have left goes to other small businesses, be they the grocer, the gas station owner or the small tradesmen they use to get their work done.
I'm doing what I can, and I'm asking you to do the same. If you've got anything to spare this summer, consider hiring someone, even temporarily, to help you get done the things that need doing. If all of us can move what little we have 'round the circle, we can make the impossible happen: we can save this economy and, in doing so, save a dream, and a future.