MrsObvious's Blog

Anybody? .... Anybody.....? (Bueller...?)

If so, I have a few questions I'd like to pose to you. How do you sleep at night knowing your car cost more than the majority of your employees make in a year? How can you look at yourself in the mirror knowing you lied to the shareholders about the strength and integrity of your corporation/company? How can you possibly justify an annual income that is obscenely filthy rich to a regular working class person?

Due to your diligent stewardship of the economy and your ethical attention to the needs of the future generations, we are now indebted and sold to the highest bidder. You have enabled a creation of class that will not cease or stablize for generations to come. Let's see...we have the CEO class, like you. Wealthy, provided for, stable and secure. Then we have the middle class, which is no longer regular working people, but people like doctors. After them, comes the working class, who is at the mercy of their employer. The working class that owns the average home, drives an older vehicle while paying taxes and supporting their families. Then, we have those who don't have a job any longer. No health insurance. They're forced to sell their homes, or lose them due to not being able to make payments. At that point, you dangle 'easy credit' in front of them...'go ahead...take out a second, third, even fourth mortgage, consolidate your bills and we'll make  it even EASIER to extend MORE credit and as you fall into the pit of relentless debt.'

Due to the current conditions of the economy, I would say that it's caught up with you. You managed things in a reckless manner that the most basic of working people would never do. All the financial institutions drooled at the thought of the working class making 'easy' monthly payments with astonishing interest rates as you paid squat to your shareholders. Responsible fiduciary stewards would have tromped on the easy credit wave that swept through the country , but noooooo...you encouraged it and looked forward to the millions of dollars flowing in on billions of dollars worth of loans that would ensure a revenue stream for years to come. I guess you didn't factor in NAFTA, and the wholesale loss of jobs. I guess you forgot that people need to support their gas guzzling cars and trucks, and feed a family as they strive to save for education and health needs.

I thought Ken Lay (late CEO of Enron) was the poster boy for corruption, lack of integrity and total ravaging of his employees, but you guys today.....you win the prize! And now, you need the Federal government, who is backed by....ahem...the working class taxpayers....to BAIL your sorry behinds out because things have caught up with you.

How much more are we supposed to shoulder? How can we pay more than we're already shelling out? Where is the money to come from when the jobs are leaving faster than underage kids at a busted beer party? Do you guys actually BELIEVE that New Page, in Kimberly, will actually reopen their mill when things are better in the general economy? I know that's what you tell each other, and the employees who are now facing financial ruin and an end to the lives of work they've crafted.

It's about time someone made you face the facts. It's time you pay for your reckless behavior and inhumane treatment of the working class. Of which, I am a proud member. I vote, but for what? It seems once they're in office, they forget about their neighbors, their former co-workers, their former budgets and living within their means.

I'm tired of it.