It's all about Them

There was a time when the government seemed to act a little more like a Frank Capra movie:
"Are you insane?! I can't close down the factory and put all those people out of a job. They'd ride me out of town on a rail! I'll have to screw them another way!"

It used to be that things were actually done for the welfare of the people, and decisions were made that would avoid doing the most damage to the citizenry. This is why we elected representatives to government, to speak for us and to act on our behalf when choices had to be made. Choices like destroying an entire town's economy in order to put a few more cents in a shareholder's dividend and a lot more millions in the CEO's bonus.

What the hell is that?

Why do the GM workers have to have their healthcare cut, yet the Big Guys haven't been asked to send back those unconscionable wads of cash - enough to literally feed a third world country? If the company is run in such a way that the employees have to have their benefits cut, then I would submit that the company is not being run correctly, and the penalty should be that the bonus should be adjusted to make the difference. Why hasn't anybody mentioned this? People tut-tut about the Big Money The Big Boys Get, but nobody says IT'S WRONG. TAKE IT AWAY FROM THEM.

Of course, we are living in the era of Big is Beautiful, and I don't mean Reubenesque Rocks, unfortunately.

On top of the fact that the man is a Mental Midget, an Intellectual Idiot and makes my skin crawl, George W. Bush is an OIL MAN. We are living in a petroleum age and all you Red State morons brought the wolf right into the hen house. The world isn't divided into Us and Them, meaning East and West when it comes to oil; Us is those that's got and Them is all the rest of us. And the Bushes have been wallet to wallet with their oil buddies for a very long time.

There is a layer way up high of Those Who Matter, and then, way way down here, The Rest Of Us.

I don't think those of us way down here are the priority of Mr. Bush and his regime. I think he/they have proved it again and again and again. How many times have we gaped open-mouthed as he blatantly pushed tax cuts for the richest and then threw another hardship on the spiralling middle class? Take away the last-resort life preserver of bankruptcy. Why?
To make sure we all have our debts paid when we're washed down the sewers when the rotting levees give way?