Elite Ruling Class

@bobmnu (8157)
United States
February 17, 2009 12:40pm CST
For the past few weeks we have been told how terrible the Banks and big Corporations are for having private jets for the executives to use to conduct their business. It has gotten to the point that companies are canceling orders, putting tens of thousands of people out of work and more layoffs to come. We have been told this is irresponsible and wasteful use of the taxpayer money. BUT when they need one vote to pass a bill that is not favored by the American People they can send a private jet to pick up one Senator and fly him back to Washington and then fly him back to his home. I understand that he was at his mothers funeral and my thought and prayers go out to him and his family. The point is why is it OK for the Ruling Elite to use private jets at taxpayer expense, and not alright for business to use them when it is the investors who make that decision. When the government "invested" in the banks and companies they put no restrictions on the money. Now that they have taken the money the government is starting to tell them how to run the business. It seems that Under President Obama and the Democrats we now have real CHANGE. We no longer have a wealthy class, middle class and poor class we now have the Elite Ruling Class and the Government supported non working class and the poor slobs who pay the bill for all of them, and the HOPE that we don't get shaf*ed at every turn by one of the other two classes.
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@Destiny007 (5805)
• United States
17 Feb 09
You have a choice of either getting used to it, or working to oppose it. We are now on the verge of becoming a Totalitarian and Fascist State where opposing views will not be tolerated and Free Speech is abolished. The democrats are a bunch of neo-fascists who think they can do a better job of running our lives than we can. They want us to become a Socialist country, despite the fact that communism has pretty much failed everywhere it has been tried.... including right here in our own country when the Pilgrims first landed. It's not ok for business to use their own transportation as needed, but it is perfectly ok to use taxpayer money to provide transportation to ensure a bunch of unnecessary pork, and political payoffs get passed that will do nothing more than further damage our already fragile economy. Welcome to the USSA.
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@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
18 Feb 09
They want to create a ruling class that will determine who can run for office. VP Bidden wanted to have someone appointed to his seat that would resign when his son returned from Iraq. VP Al Gore ran for his fathers seat. Many voters did not know Senator Gore Sr was not running for reelection. They feel entitled to the power.
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
17 Feb 09
That moron, Sherrod, should be fired, plain and simple. He flew in, on our dime, to vote on a bill he never even looked at. We already know that nobody fully read it before voting, but he wasn't even there to look at the cover. I understand his situation. I think the appropriate thing would have been to delay the vote until he was able to attend due to extenuating circumstances. Of course no delays were allowed as that would have given people time to READ the bill.
@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
18 Feb 09
President Obama said to pass the bill, Speaker Pelosi said to pass the bill, Senator Reid said to pass the bill. Like a good lemming he followed the leaders. Now he has a couple of chips in the big game that he can use to gain more power. Why waste his time reading the bill, he is in the game for himself and his power.