Thursday, September 25, 2008

700 billion dollars?

I would like to start off first by saying that I am absolutely LIVID because of the recent events on wall street. When I thought that our economy couldnt get any worse 2 men on wall street made some bad trades and are now asking for congress to grant them a 700 billion dollar bailout. 700 billion dollars? There are so many other places that money should go if we are just going to print more bills to save the worlds problems. If we used half of that to send to africa for relief work we could put an end to mass genocide and we could help sick starving children. But instead we are going to give possibly up to 1 trillion dollars to those idiots on wall street who messed everything up in the first place! These men make more in one day than i do in a year and it makes me sick to think that any of the taxes that i pay are going to go to these people. I work my butt off for practically nothing and part of the money that i make is going to go to these rich old men who messed it up for themselves? That is wrong. Where is robin hood? Where is the man who is going to take from the rich and give to the poor. We need one of those and soon. Hopefully Barack Obama can do this but there is still the issue of getting him elected because there are so many ignorant people that we allow to vote.
If instead of giving a 700 billion dollar bailout to corporations why dont we divide that up and give it to the people. Maybe if we all had a little extra cash in our pockets we could pay our mortgages and fill up our gas tanks. If the government divided that money up and gave it to everysingle person, man woman and child, that would be about 2200 dollars for every single person! I would probably give one of my fingers for that much money! 2200 dollars would make a difference unlike that 300 bullshit stimulus check bush attempted to make a success. 300 dollars does not go very far, that would pay a little less than half of my rent or pay off my pending electric bill. But 2200 dollars to every man woman and child? that would make a difference. That could get the people back on their feet again. But no. As a people we are going to sit aside and let congress pass a 700 billion dollar bailout to give to the men who screwed us over in the first place. That is twisted. And it makes me lose hope in the values of america when the people arent trying to stop it.

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