If we weren't at war ….

[kpete]

If we weren't at war ….
July 21, 2010|By Patrick Murphy
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An 11-year-old girl handed me a note. Her father, a college graduate, had lost his midlevel white-collar job a year ago. He tried to find work but after a while gave up. His daughter wrote:



"I am scared, worried and sad because when I come home from school dad is always sleeping and drinking beer. I am scared of dad because some days he's loud and obnoxious and other days he's quiet and out of the way. … He fell apart when he lost his job. … I freeze up and want to kill myself because sometimes I think it's just a dream and I'll wake up soon. … I usually cry myself to sleep at night because we don't have money to pay for all the food we need and clothes and so on. … I hate my life, I can't even have birthday treats at school or a birthday party. I'm scared, that's why I get bad grades. I just freeze in the middle and just lose all my thoughts. … so yeah my life sucks. (Sorry about the language)."



We have poured hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out the financiers who got us into our current financial mess by creating pretend wealth. Now, according to news accounts, they are again making gobs of money while the men and women I see who created real wealth — albeit usually for others — are left twisting in the wind.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-07-21/news/ct-oped-0722-courtroom-20100721_1_husbands-birthday-party-white-collar/2

[onethatcares]

1. how can we help?

I mean, how does one actually help a stranger that has lost their job, their homes and everything they worked for their entire lives?

5 bucks ain't gonna cut it, neither is letting them move in with yourself and your family.

I'm at a loss here. I really am.

We already know our supposed representatives don't give a flying fuckk about the unemployed, hell it took a month to get an extension on unemployment benefits, and half of the senate are millionaires none of this joblessness touches their lives.

If you have any idea as to what one person can do, please let me know.

Thanx and Peace

[midnight]

2. The Pay Czar who knows the bankers gave themselves huge tarp

bonuses in 2008, and may not be able to get this tax payer money back should have to read this note and the beginning of each meeting he has with those banksters. The letter should be read for those Govt. officials whose mantra has been:jobs are not coming back in this recovery. Really Then give every unemployed adults money to pay for underwater mortgages, food, health care, etc.... Consider it a cost of living subsidy.

[Hydra]

3. This presupposes that this isn't all according to plan

"Jobless recoveries" followed up by endless war...I see lots of people being shoved toward the cemeteries with these policies.

I wonder what the final tally will be? The funny thing is, I thought this would happen on Bush's watch.

[lib2DaBone]

4. The sad part.. the kids are getting hurt... my heart goes out to them..

Our politicians could care less.

TARP money was given to the banks without so much as a signiture, a follow up, an audit.. not even a measly check stub. We just GAVE $700 Billion to Bush's Buddies. (Yet you try to get $7 from a bank and see how far you get)

Now the Bankers are sitting on $8 Trilllion in cash reserves... fat and happy and not lending.

This depression was planned... it was no accident. This is the greatest transfer of wealth from the middle class to the oligarchs EVER in the history of the U.S.

[CrispyQ]

5. Extravagant lunches for fat cat CEOs are ok, but hot lunches for needy kids are not.

Compassionate conservatism at it's best.