Bought and Paid...

So this past week has given me so many reasons to be infuriated at elected officials. The jobs bill not passing in the Senate, the White House removal of a certain provision in the Bank reform bill that gave control of CEO salaries to all stock holders, not just the ones that have controlling stakes. And then there's Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX)... Another reminder that many of our leaders who are supposed to be working for their constituents are in actuality working for the "Corporate Machine." In this case BP, if you haven't seen it yet, here's the video: http://www.dailykos.com/tv/w/002738/

OK, when I first watched this video, I had to watch it twice because I could not believe what was coming out of his mouth. You apologize to BP for making them clean up the mess that they caused by not following proper safety regulations and for constantly prizing production over all else??? Now in the congressman's defense...he is their dancing monkey. Bought and paid for ladies and gents by "Big Oil." Mr. Barton spelled it out perfectly, he wants things to go exactly how they did for the Exxon Valdez spill. Today, over twenty years later there is still litigation over that particular spill. Barton wants it all to go through the court system on a case by case basis...I CALL BULLSHIT!!! For one a company the size of BP can keep cases in court for years until the people suing them run out of money. Secondly the taxpayer would be paying for it as well, this would be completely unacceptable. I hope that the people of his congressional district take serious note of this and vote his ass out when the time comes.

Now also this week as mentioned above...the Jobs Bill. Here's a link for that story: http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/06/18/senate-republicans-kill-jobs-bill-block-jobless-aid/ Oh lord why do we elect such bastards? 250,000 unemployed workers a week are losing their unemployment insurance...do you grasp the gravity of that? And that's per week people! That is 250,000 American families, with those numbers in four weeks it equates roughly to one million American families. You think we're in a recession now?!? Let's see how things are when there are even more foreclosures, people won't be able to pay their bills because they have to feed their kids. This is not the America we were raised in...as I stated on the review's Facebook page when this article was first posted: This isn't a Democrat or Republican issue, it isn't even a Union issue...this is a Human issue. If you can sit up on Capitol Hill and look down on your fellow Americans and tell them their kids don't deserve to eat tonight, or to have a roof over their head...well my friend there's a special place in hell for you...