May 16 2009
Don’t Blame ME for the Economy
Tonight, I think I’ll take a different approach to what I normally write. You see usually I find some article that either doesn’t set well with me and explain why. Or I find some story somewhere that I don’t think is getting enough attention. Tonight, I’m not picking some article. I’m going to talk about reality for a minute.
You see what’s flooding my local papers as well as the local news stations isn’t being talked about in the local gas station. As a matter of fact, no one is really talking about it at all in this area. We all pretty well seen it coming. The auto industry is going belly up. Chrysler is filing bankruptcy and GM is closing down dealerships. People are losing jobs and homes. And Mr. Obama is making the American people fix it.
The President is making taxpayers like you and me bail out these companies that obviously can’t manage money to begin with. Here in the real world if a small business owner had a company that was barely hanging on, he would start selling his person
al stuff to bail it out. If some of those big shots in those companies would sell their multimillion dollar mansions and buy an average size house, they wouldn’t need my money to keep their company afloat. I live in a two bedroom trailer and can barely make ends meet. Why do I need to fix a rich man’s problem? Those CEO’s should have downsized their own houses and paychecks before they even asked for my money.
You know what that reminds me of a song by John Rich:
Because in the real world their shuttin Detroit down,
While the boss man takes his bonus pay and jets on out of town.
DCs bailing out them bankers as the farmers auction ground.
Yeah while there living it up on Wall Street in that New York City town,
Here in the real world their shuttin Detroit down.
Well, they wouldn’t be shutting Detroit down if them CEO’s would have taken a pay-cut a long time ago and been more financially responsible to begin with. You can’t raise your own salary if your company is losing money. The same theory applies for the gas prices and the greedy oil industry. If those big shots would be willing to live on $150,000 a year, we wouldn’t have seen anywhere near $4 a gallon last summer. By the way, if they would take $150,000 a year, that would still be 6 times what I made last year.
The economy has been fueled by greed for many presidents, republican and democrat alike. Now, the economy has has been flushed down the toilet. The worst thing about it is that the people to blame (auto and oil CEO’s) can still live comfortably while the rest of us scratch at pennies for groceries.
So, here in the real world Detroit is slowly shutting down and the jack-asses that caused it are still rich. On top of that, some of the people that worked for them are now homeless. To make it all better the government wants to blame it on the consumer (you and me) not buying their over-priced, gas guzzling, hunks of metal. Don’t blame me for the crashing economy. I’m not the greedy one, I’m just getting by.
