As I am sure the rest of the world along with nearly every American in the USA knows, our Government decided to shut down last night at Midnight. How lame. How pathetic. How inexcusable. No wonder the rest of the world laughs at Americans. No wonder they don't take us seriously.
One of my friends from High School works for the government in some fashion and she is not only NOT getting paid right now but she is REQUIRED to go to work. Explain to me how the hell, in this country, that is even legal? Explain to me why the hell our politicians and president get their pay checks and benefits while my friend and others like her aren't. They aren't better than she is. They aren't better than any other American in this nation. More importantly they ARE NOT more ENTITLED than anyone else just because they are politicians.
The worst part about this is Republicans and Democrats and even the President are all pointing fingers at each other, playing the blame game, refusing to take responsibility for their idiocy, their childish behavior, and complete and utter lack of respect for not only each other but most importantly the American people who hired them in the first place. And we hired them to do a fucking job, pass reasonable and intelligent laws and policies, and protect us from terrorism, not sit on their collective asses and scream at each other like bitchy, spoiled, snot-nosed teenagers.
The fact of the matter is, they don't give a shit about the American people. They just want money, to be exempt from a health care plan that is was bad to begin with, and you know it's bad when they are offered and exemption from it, and they want to move this country out of the realm of democracy and into something very akin to Socialist and or Fascist State. Why? So that they have all the power and money to do whatever the fuck it is they want to do and no one can fuss about it.
Frankly, I'm so sick and tired of this shit. I'm so sick and tired of politicians pushing to have more power, more invasions of privacy under the guise of 'we're just trying to protect you', more bitching about people having guns and always, always blaming on mental illness instead of recognizing that some people are just fucking EVIL, and most of all I am so sick and tired of them fueling the wildfires of a class war that they most likely planted the seeds of. Things need to change and they need to change soon. Congress AND the President need to grow the fuck up, stop fighting, and come up with some damned compromises. There MUST be some give and take.
so true, seems so incredible to have to have a government shut down xx
ReplyDeleteIt's childish.
DeleteIt's pretty scary. I'm scared that eventually I wont get my social security check down the line. If they'll do that to the people who work a gov't job, why the hell wouldn't they cut off poor, disabled people? I suspect that there may be civil unrest and violence down the line. I also hate it that mental illness gets blamed for evil as it casts all mentally ill people in a negative light as if we don't have problems with the stigma to begin with.
ReplyDeleteNot paying gov't employees and forcing them to work for no pay is probably illegal but when did a thing being illegal ever stop the gov't and corporations from doing them? Never. Veterans have had their veterans benefits cut as well. Soldiers are having to give service with no pay.
It's frightening to be sure. What's really frightening is that all this has been in the works for decades, since shortly after mankind's second attempt at mass suicide [wwii].