Oh what a beautiful morning! Oh what a beautiful day! This morning I am watching the news with unusual interest to see if they begin to talk about the replacement for Senator Robert Byrd, the one vote needed to pass the unemployment extension that will allow myself and millions of others to feed their families in these tough times. The senate will convene at 2pm today, and while the unemployment extension is on the agenda, I think it may be a difficult reach today given all that needs to be tackled before the August recess.
Wait, did I say August recess? Didn't they just take an entire week for the 4th of July? What then, is there in August that constitutes another month long hiatus in times when we need decisions, and fast? Well folks, its summer break!!
According to the senate itself, the recess was intended to save the lives and health of the initial senate members. In the days before air conditioning, the break was intended to give the senate members a way to escape the deadly levels of heat reached in the senate building during the summer months. Enter the 1920's, and the advent of air conditioning (it didn't become mainstream until the '50's, however the senate always has the breaking technology) and what reason do we have to adjourn now?
Is this a much needed break for our over worked senators after their much needed week-long July break? If it weren't for the paychecks and benefits afforded to them, I would swear our congress in among the under-employed of the nation. But then, what kind of hurry are you going to be in, when you have no idea what it is like to work for a living, and to be stuck holding the bill when the legislative branch failed to control our banks, our lenders, and our regulations. We are getting closer to a Caste system every day, and the only ones who can't seem to see it are at the top of the pile.
Oh man, do I wish only the people at the top can't see it. It's also the bottom of the pile that causes it--they're extremely sensitive to fear tactics because of their tenuous economic position, and therefore can be scared into voting against their own interests--meaning they vote to benefit the upper class--because the upper class knows that all you have to do is show them a brown person, the word socialist, or the concept of non-christian religion. The poor made the caste system too, because they vote against themselves in order to vote against other poor people who they feel threatened by.
ReplyDeleteThat's when the educated poor (and I include myself in this) become pissed and dangerous. Revolution!! :)
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