What will it take for the American worker to see that our lawmakers in Washington detest us? How else can the amendments to the Omnibus Spending Bill be explained?
- The pension non protection provision: If a corporation makes unwise or risky decisions that result in a loss, the corporation can now steal that money from the workers’ pension fund. If the risky decision results in a gain, the corporation keeps the money.
- Dodd Frank Revision: The banks will once again be allowed to gamble with government insured money. Money you and I deposited. As before, if the bet pays off the bank wins. If the bet loses you and I pay the bookie (in this case the bank).
- Reduced funding for EPA: With more evidence being produced everyday on the adverse health effects caused by fracking, why would you shackle the watchdog?
- Reduced the Amount of Pell Grants: Making it more difficult or impossible for a middle class kid to get a college education keeps him or her from moving into a higher paying job. Is it really better to keep workers stuck at wages so low they need government subsidies to exist?
- Increase the individual campaign contributions: An individual had been allowed to contribute only $32,000. How many of us have become distraught when we reached that limit and could not give more? Just to dispel the assumption that these men and women are two-bit prostitutes they raised the individual contribution limit to $324,000 (1/3 of a million dollars).
How distasteful these politicians must find us! How awful for them to be in a room with us, to breath the same air, to shake our hand, to look into our eyes, to ask for our vote. They must rush home to shower. After all, to them we must be lower than pond scum. The congresspeople responsible for these hurtful amendments at least must have had enough guilt to not admit to being the person submitting these outrages.