Presidents Obama & Clinton Wants Ordinairy Americans To Help America

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Dear Messrs. Clinton, Kennedy, and Obama:

We've done enough. We're doing it every day. We're helping our neighbors, helping our families. Those of us who can, that is.

What you apparently fail to understand is that many of us have nothing left to give. We have no homes, because we have no jobs. We're losing our families. We're losing our pride. We're losing our health. We're losing our dignity.

It's time for you to stop asking more from us. We're tapped out.

It's time for you to hit up your buddies for the donations this time. The Wall Streeters who are taking home millions of our tax dollars in bonuses. The CEOs and the CFOs and the retirees like Jack Welch who "make" more in a day than ten of us make in a year.

While you're giving huge bundles of cash to banks that made horrendously bad decisions and caused their own problems, our hospitals and our colleges, our museums and our schools, are laying off workers because they don't have the money.

You've taken our hard-earned tax dollars and given them -- without our consent -- to people who don't need them, to millionaires and billionaires who don't need another mansion or yacht or private helicopter. And then you've turned around and in the very next breath told working people, the union auto workers among them, that they must sacrifice, give up their pensions, give up their health care, give up their futures.

HOW DARE YOU? HOW DARE YOU, you who sit in luxury and wealth, who will never want or need for anything? HOW DARE YOU beg us to give more?

HOW DARE YOU sit there and laugh for the photographer. How dare you.



Tansy Gold

I hope you can direct this anger at healthcare so that the Right does not drive the agenda.

:(

and leave it.:fistbump:

Don't be such a stranger!

And, you need to get a grip.

And she's right.

You need a reality check instead of cheerleading practice.

Bill Clinton needs another good dose of Amy Goodman.

need you to tell me to get a reality check.

and volunteer and do your part. or not.


But I'll tell you, Cha, same as I'd tell Bill or Teddy or Barack -- when you go out there begging for "ordinary Americans" to help their neighbors, to do what they can, to give what they can, then you fucking damn well better include those who have lots and lots and lots and lots to give, 'cause I'm sick and tired of being EXPECTED to give, and they're not.

I make no secret that I'm a socialist, so any accusations of such that you want to throw my way will simply be greeted with polite acknowledgement. I'm fucking sick and tired of watching the cronies get millions and billions while so many "ordinary Americans" are going hungry, are losing their homes, are being told they don't deserve to have a decent retirement. I'm not saying those who can and are willing to help out shouldn't; I'm just saying that the begging from Clinton and Obama and Kennedy should be directed at least once in a while toward those who have PLENTY. Toward boooosh's "have mores," who now have even more than they did under the boy king.

I'm pretty well insulated against the slings and arrows of the Obamabots. I was one of the first to criticize him and take the heat for it. I didn't back off then, and I sure as fucking hell ain't gonna back off now.



Tansy Gold

mind slinging names. YOu're a hypocrite.

I'm not sure how that makes me a hypocrite, but hey, fella, if it makes you feel better to call me one, have at it.

Though I must say, when someone comes on DU and attacks those who are defending and/or standing up for the poor, the working, the insurance-less, the foreclosed, the laid off, well, I have to wonder about that someone's understanding of the problem.

As the bumper sticker says, if you're not outraged. . . . . .



I am



Tansy Gold

And you are out of line. Tansy does not need to get a grip. She's absolutely right.

Next they'll be asking for our blood or first born. :argh:

FIRST end these immoral/illegal occupations of sovereign countries, then we'll talk. ;)

If the people up top were paying more of their fair share all these years in the first place we wouldn't be as bad off as we are now. Cutting the top marginal rates just gave the idle rich more money to gamble with but it's the rest of us who are paying the price. And now who are they asking to lend a hand? The people who were doing all the work in the first place. What are the rich doing? Letting middle and lower class suckers protest the tax increase as though it were hitting those who took to the streets instead of the idiots at Faux Noise who have been hyping up these ridiculous tea parties.

Regards

You got it right.

would ameliorate the problem? And how much people helping people is going to make up for jobs that don't pay a living wage, lack of job opportunities, the inability to pay for college, foreclosures, homelessness, lack of health care policy, and state government which lay off non-incarcerated workers for prison slave labor? Meanwhile the people who broke the economy have been put in charge of fixing it. The wives of the bankers complain that they can't spend conspicuously when their "cut down" lifestyle is higher than the lifestyle of the rest of us before the shit hit the fan, Wall Street people complain about having to give back bonuses that were only available because of a tax payer bailout! How many of you out there really think that fixing Wall Street is really going to help us when we can no longer help one another? Service is all well and good and all but I think that there are a great many people who are tapped out and this doesn't do much to help them nor does it give much hope that things will get better.

And the rich continue unmolested by reality.

Regards

We don't need volunteering; we need jobs. Real jobs. Jobs that make real things that real people use. Jobs that pay real wages so real people can buy the real things that other real people make.

And that's the real reality the rich don't seem to understand.


Tansy Gold

Nope.