Ripping off Americans
So, while energy prices and gasoline price are going up, the government is cutting public funding.
and kids and elderly (Notice the up-to-date cost of the Iraq War)
Congress was kind enough to vote down minimum pay raise that hasn't increased for 5 years
Molly Ivins had a great column noting how the minimum wage, if kept at the same constant rate throughout the 50s and 60s, should be $23 and change.
If you think the government can not afford it, just look at the benefits and wages of all the congressmen that are supposed to be helping its constituents (in above link). Or, just look at the billions of dollars we give to Israel every year or how we are spending $56 billion dollars a month in Iraq.
But all this money eventually "trickles down" into the pockets of the rich. Just look at this gleeful executive, "I'm sorry I had to raise gas prices, but chin bras are getting quite pricey these days."
Even the Katrina sufferers are getting jilted by the Government and the "Non-profit" organizations
Fundraising companies (for partisan purposes) are getting government benefits
Another armful substance that the government is almost literally shoving down our throats
And guess who is making money off of this
Bush borrowed the most, yet social programs have been cut
Fascist government keeping the poor down
Congress keeping money designed to help NYC after terror attacks