01
Oct/2008

by micwoodbu

Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t the folk who want me to bail them out of the financial mess they’ve gotten this nation in the same folk who didn’t want to help my friends when they were losing their homes to foreclosure? Seems to me I recall these skeezers calling my friends financially wreckless, incompetent and irresponsible. My, oh, my how the tables have turned. Who on earth could possibly be more financially inept than those who have brought this whole nation’s economy to coll... Read More

01
Oct/2008

by micwoodbu

I loathe the idea of having to bail out Wall Street with my hard earned tax dollars. That money should be going towards universal healthcare or better education and not to bail out this nation’s economy because of self-serving decisions made by a bunch of covetous, reprobate, inept, hedonistic, unethical shysters.

Why should I -- a single, working class, no-property-owning, debt-ridden, middle-aged, struggling from paycheck-to-paycheck, average American Jane -- bail out this nation’s... Read More

18
Dec/2007

by finrenice

'Tis the season and all the big charity groups are out there to make sure the poor get something for Christmas.  It's the only time of year when people accept that, yes Virginia, there are poor people in our society and, no, they don't want to be. At least at Christmas a poor family can give their kids presents and, possibly, a nice dinner, just like the rich folk.In our society living below the poverty line is unacceptable.  After all, they can work, they just don't want to, they're lazy, etc... Read More