PASSING OBSERVATIONS

I feel like Andy Rooney today.

Don't you think it's funny that the same bank we bailed out to the tune of $45 billion (B of A) now wants to take a monthly $5 fee from each of its debit card customers because the gov't who bailed them out (meaning us) wants to limit their obscene profits on transactions? So to retain those obscene profits they will go back and charge the very ones who bailed them out the first time to recoup those obscene profits. Wow-Score! Or maybe it was the $11 million severance package EACH they paid two executives that were let go. Poor things. Most of us get a "you have 15 minutes to clean out your desk and leave". Don't let the screen door hit you on the way out. Score Two!

Since you don't make diddly-squat on your savings now and you do the bank's work by using online banking and debit cards, I am having a fire sale on mattresses if you would like to go old school with your money. No transaction fees required to access your own funds!

Isn't it funny that those in charge were elected (ha ha)to create jobs and strengthen Michigan's economy. Instead time has been spent arguing over a bridge, demonizing teachers, curtailing medical freedom & privacy, stripping bargaining rights, proposing right to work (which trust me only helps the employer), taking $470 from every public school student & putting it into the pockets of corporations, taxing pensioners, reducing payments to the working poor, attacking universities, etc. Keep looking, but I don't see a stronger economy or jobs appearing. When does that start? Rhetoric vs. reality bites you know.

Isn't it funny that the Iraq war is now ending as proposed by Bush, carried out by Obama and the "R"s are screaming - Wha? Is somebody or several somebodies losing their profits over there or their protection to collect their profits over there?

Isn't it funny that when the great trickle down man Reagan proposed closing loopholes and having the rich pay their taxes like the rest of us there was nary a peep of class warfare. Now when the same is proposed by our current President the "R"s are screaming -Wha? I'm no expert, but seems to me it is much easier to take the taxes out of someone who has to receive a paycheck from an employer than someone who has "stock options" or other means of receiving their compensation don't you think?

The 99% do have a point. When so many are suffering the loss of jobs, homes and savings while the 1% who were the major source of the meltdown are still in their homes and jobs receiving the benefits and bonuses they always have, based on a bailout from us, one has to wonder. I am starting to think this has been the plan all along -to keep the masses poor and ignorant; just saying....