This really....
Pisses me off!!!
You should be pissed too!
I'm reading the news this morning and see this crap about the FEMA fraud http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13310790/?GT1=8211 and I wonder how this could happen (maybe not how, but why). I think about all the people who were crying for help, the ones who said that they couldn't get any assistance from the government, yet we now hear of people who paid for strippers and porn and cruises and one who even had an extended stay at a Hawaiian hotel. Then there is a Senator who is on the rampage (and good for him and them that are) and I'm quoting, "This is an assault on the American taxpayer," said Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the subcommittee that will conduct the hearing... and I agree because this is heinous.
Oh wait...assault on taxpayers....
Then I read this... http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060613193509990009&ncid=NWS00010000000001
and I wonder if this isn't much more than an attack on the taxpayer. The federal minimum wage has been $5.15 an hour since 1997 http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0774473.html, but the congressmen have given themselves a raise every year for the past seven years. It's a cost of living allowance. This is the biggest joke I've heard in a while. Because people who make minimum wage evidently don't endure raises in the cost of living. Even in 1997 the average price of gasoline for this week was $1.37 per gallon, where as now its $3.11 per gallon http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/gas1.html. That means that if you make minimum wage, and you use more than one gallon on your way to work (which means it takes you another gallon to get home) then your first hour of work does not even pay for your expenses to get to and from work. That means that the average gallon of gasoline is over 60% of your hourly wage.
I should probably learn how to put that red profanity at the top of my blog to let you know that I might curse a little.
If you guys don't feel ass-raped right now, you must not be following along. What we have here is two very similar cases...and inept system, and a bunch of villainous people who saw their opportunity to take advantage of it...and all at the cost of us...the taxpayer. If there is a hell, these people will surely know.
Other than that, I'm having a pretty good day.
You should be pissed too!
I'm reading the news this morning and see this crap about the FEMA fraud http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13310790/?GT1=8211 and I wonder how this could happen (maybe not how, but why). I think about all the people who were crying for help, the ones who said that they couldn't get any assistance from the government, yet we now hear of people who paid for strippers and porn and cruises and one who even had an extended stay at a Hawaiian hotel. Then there is a Senator who is on the rampage (and good for him and them that are) and I'm quoting, "This is an assault on the American taxpayer," said Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the subcommittee that will conduct the hearing... and I agree because this is heinous.
Oh wait...assault on taxpayers....
Then I read this... http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060613193509990009&ncid=NWS00010000000001
and I wonder if this isn't much more than an attack on the taxpayer. The federal minimum wage has been $5.15 an hour since 1997 http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0774473.html, but the congressmen have given themselves a raise every year for the past seven years. It's a cost of living allowance. This is the biggest joke I've heard in a while. Because people who make minimum wage evidently don't endure raises in the cost of living. Even in 1997 the average price of gasoline for this week was $1.37 per gallon, where as now its $3.11 per gallon http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/gas1.html. That means that if you make minimum wage, and you use more than one gallon on your way to work (which means it takes you another gallon to get home) then your first hour of work does not even pay for your expenses to get to and from work. That means that the average gallon of gasoline is over 60% of your hourly wage.
I should probably learn how to put that red profanity at the top of my blog to let you know that I might curse a little.
If you guys don't feel ass-raped right now, you must not be following along. What we have here is two very similar cases...and inept system, and a bunch of villainous people who saw their opportunity to take advantage of it...and all at the cost of us...the taxpayer. If there is a hell, these people will surely know.
Other than that, I'm having a pretty good day.
posted by Michael Wren at 12:38 PM
1 Comments:
Is it cynical if you're right?
Every government is corrupt. Fortunately, in America we have the power to change who's on the take every two years.
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