My Existence

Bad decisions are made managing money, resources. You spend more than you make, you wrack up debt and bills. You end up losing your income entirely or it is lessened to the point where you can no longer make payments. If this is an ordinary citizen of the United States, you have few options. You can deal with the credit card companies and the banks and debtors and try to make deals, but you are basically SOL.

If this is big business, you go crying to the government and get the option to sell them your bad decisions. With no restrictions, coaching, or penalties on doing it again!?!??!?!??!?!? What is wrong with this picture? Let me paint you something from [url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/08/politicians.meltdown.aig.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview]this article here, [/url] “Days after it got a federal bailout, American International Group Inc. spent $440,000 on a posh California retreat for its executives, complete with spa treatments, banquets and golf outings, according to lawmakers investigating the company’s meltdown.” Lack of morality.

Or what about [url=http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/06/news/companies/citi_wachovia/index.htm?postversion=2008100709]this one here?[/url] “Under a Wells Fargo-Wachovia merger, Wachovia Chief Executive Robert Steel and other senior executives would receive golden parachutes worth $225 million, Citigroup said in the complaint, filed in New York State Supreme Court. They would not receive this “windfall” under the Citigroup deal.” Greed.

YO AMERICA, WAKE THE FRACK UP!! This goes out to Obama, McCain, Bush, “Easy Street,” Wall Street, Washington and MOST importantly, Main Street. We have allowed these fools from top to bottom to mess with us and tell us what is or is not right. Our Congressional leaders and Senators who WE elected because THEY are suppose to be working FOR US! Americans said no to the Bailout, why did it happen if the people WE put in office are doing what WE want them? Cause they aren’t, and haven’t been for tens of years. Politicians no longer work for the constituents. They work for themselves. They work for the lobbyist groups that pay, excuse me.. donate, to help put them into office. Ulterior motives.

We have top executives on a $440,000 retreat, the same executives that were “responsible” for the well being of a company. It doesn’t matter if they were not the ones making the decisions. If the chain of command was working as intended, these problems would not have happened in any company, including our own government. They should be HELD RESPONSIBLE for the actions they took, or the actions they allowed to happen by NOT DOING their jobs!!

We have Wachovia executives who NOW want to go after a NEW deal, after already ironing one out with another company. Why? So they can get some more money! That is the basics of it, NO other reason. Even if they struck that part of the deal, it is to late for me to trust them at their word.

And then we have us, the regular Schmo. We need to speak up. We need to be heard. We put these people into office, and the way our government is suppose to work is they are working FOR us. So why aren’t they doing that anymore? We have become complacent with that fact, and I think we need to change it. We need to SEPARATE big business from politics, once and for all. We need politicians who are going to vote for what is best for the people, not their pockets and certainly not for businesses who made BAD decisions.

I realize there are a lot of intricacies of politics and business I certainly skipped over, but those same businesses have made it where a politician feels they NEED their money to get anywhere. If we have politicians who start turning down offers, or even better…accepting them and STABBING them in the back, I think that would send a message. I think that is what it would take to start us government on the right track. Cause this once great nation is going to be swallowed whole by another country one day and it could be soon.

We are so worried about Terrorism, but we don’t stop to think that some of the actions and decisions made by big business in this country COULD be and SHOULD be considered terrorism. Try manufacturers of tobacco products, how about the oil companies? We have companies selling a product that kills people, has been proven to GREATLY increase the chance of a medical condition that can kill people. Yet it is ok?? We have restricted guns, narcotics, it is illegal immoral and just plain wrong to kill another person……but we have companies making a profit off doing the same…exact….thing. I think that should be considered a terrorist threat. Is that an extremist view, yeah prolly. But isn’t it the view we should be having right now? Our whole system of based off checks and balances, if one thing gets to far out of control, we are suppose to compensate and respond accordingly. I don’t think my response is out of proportion, at all.

Wake up America, for we have been building our own coffins for a long while, and it seems we just added an assembly line to the production que.