December 12, 2008 @ 08:56
Last night I caught the news flash about the United States senate refusing a rescue plan for the big three auto makers and I had mixed emotions.
Part of me worries about what's ahead if the car companies fail, but then part of me knows it probably won't be allowed to happen.
Another part of me sides with those who rejected the bail-out based on their reluctance to hand over money to whack jobs that've proven they can't handle it.
Like those hogs at AIG who are still handing out perverse bonuses under the disguise of
"retention" salaries. They claim if they don't hand over millions to executives who already have millions they'll lose all their good people.
I realize its easy for me to say, but given the current climate, I might suggest that good people wouldn't expect more millions when they've already got several million, but that's a whole other issue.
I'm sure part of the Senate decision last night was based on the reluctance to give the corporate pigs at GM, Chrysler and Ford a barrel full of money with no clear cut plans other than to make sure they look after themselves, personally.
It's amazing how greed takes over and who it can be applied to so many levels of business and government, including right here in Canada.
What happened in our country last week was nothing short of greed.
Jack Layton speaks for the people but he doesn't really care about the people. He cares about Jack Layton and nobody else. He proved it with the coalition crap.
Same with Stephane Dion. Given what he had been through, how he had been overwhelmingly rejected by the Canadian people, it was nothing short of amazing to watch him come back and actually take a greedy grab at power.
And it filters down. Take Vaughn mayor Linda Jackson for example. Take the time to read this article and you'll quickly appreciate how greed takes over.
How Jackson's greed would allow her to take taxpayers money in her city and literally dump it down her throat. The total disregard for those struggling families in Vaughn that might have a problem with her buying one hundred dollar bottles of wine at expensive restaurants and then charging it back to her citizens.
Where do these sows get off?
Given the given the current economic atmosphere, and the lead up to it, how could anyone like Jackson justify meetings at swanky Italian restaurants which included extravagant meals and booze.
At the very least, if you choose not to use a board room for a meeting and you just have to go to a restaurant to pig out on taxpayer's money, wouldn't it be cool to maybe pay for your own booze.
It brings us back to this question. Is anyone who would do this really worthy of being in position of power? Should anyone so disconnected from the people they serve have access to public money?
The capper with Jackson is the lies and then the backtracking and then the feeble attempt at justification.
Just plain sickening.
I'm sure the citizens of Vaughn can't wait for the next election.
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