Well, here we are!
And on the Natchez Trace Parkway, a National Parks property (part of the Dept of the Interior - mostly concerned with oil, gas, timber leases, but, oh yeah, we have some nice parks too), they have closed half the Restrooms Monday - Wednesday and the other half Wednesday - Friday.
I won't tell you what I idly thought about doing in front of the locked Men's restroom yesterday (I knew it would only negatively impact the NPS [contract] workers, and not who it would have been directed at - Congress, and especially Boehner, Cantor and McConnell - the three-headed obstructionists.)
And, we found out yesterday, they cut 9 Park Ranger positions here. Nine more people outta work. Great work folks.
But, of course, "we" have plenty of money to bail out the "Fix the Debt" crowd on Wall Street (who DON'T pay their fair share of taxes - pay yer taxes! THAT would fix the debt!), plenty of money to bail out the motor vehicle industry (again), and plenty of money to drop McDonnell Douglas cruise missiles on Libya - to make some Libyans safer?
Congress (and the Obama Administration) is clearly owned by big business. How many Wall Street "banksters" were arrested for crashing the American and world economy with their stupid, reckless derivatives? None. How many "Occupy Wall Street" protesters were arrested for seeking a redress of grievances from their govt? Plenty.
And? Too big to fail has gotten Bigger since 2008. Derivatives are still NOT regulated. The Glass-Steagall Act has still not been re-enacted, separating banking from investing - to prevent the kinds of meltdowns we had in 1929 and 2008. Another one is comin', that much you can be sure of.
If 'corporate people' like Apple would only pay their taxes, like you and I do, then those 9 Park Rangers would have jobs - and we would be safer biking the Parkway.
Check out the lengths to which Apple goes to NOT contribute to schools, parks, and "Supporting Our Troops".
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