Let me get this straight.

On Monday, Senators should vote in favor of this new tax cut deal because "it's the best we can do right now."

*Ahem*.

REALLY! That's the best you've got? I would love for Republicans to step forward and show the American public what the top 2% of earners in the US have done with the money they have saved with this tax deal in the last 8 years. I would LOVE to see how that money has been spent, how it has benefited this economy and brought more jobs to the table thus far. I want solid, concrete examples of how this money has been used to bring about a more productive economy. I want to know what their plan is to use that money in the next 4 years. I don't want a promise that that is how they will do it, I want it written. It's like handing a college student a winning lottery ticket and then saying, "Oh, you shouldn't cash it in until you promise to finish school first. You promise you'll finish school, right?" Screw you, Mom, you already handed me the ticket!

The fools are the ones who believe that this tax cut deal is in the best interest of everyone involved. Who is going to pay off this debt, knowing the taxes needed to pay it off aren't coming in? In a few years, we're back at square one, backed into a corner, and ten and twenty years down the road, our children are right there all over again.

I am a great supporter of extending unemployment benefits for those who need them the most. But this is really the best you can do, Senators?

THINK BETTER.

WORK BETTER.

WORK HARDER.

THINK TOGETHER AND MOVE FORWARD TO MAKE MONEY WORK FOR THE PEOPLE IN A STRONGER WAY.

How do you take the money of the richest Americans and build jobs for those who need the jobs the most, the 99'ers - guaranteeing them employment? How do you shift and redistribute the unemployment rates without uprooting families? If you're going to guarantee these tax cuts, how do you guarantee that the money they are saving is used in a way that most benefits this economy? What is the plan and why aren't you telling us about it?

Labels: jobs, politics, rants, social responsibility

Sometimes I sit and ponder things a bit too long and then I start to ramble. Does that happen to you, too?

I'm one of the few who haven't made the change to the new Facebook profile and for several good reasons. I know that they're making this valiant attempt to jump into this realm where photos and video are rulers and the era of social sharing is dominated by what we see, not what we talk about, however, I still believe I need to have a say about things (as defined here, in my blog that I'm resurfacing after a year of being silent).

Dearest Facebook, if you're going to bring photos and videos to the forefront of the user experience, then make it better than this garbage. Don't drag me off to another page to view the larger photo. Don't make me go somewhere else to comment on the photo. Find better ways to give me more information about items on the page that are relevant to me. You're giving me this strange paragraph of information below the user's name that tells me some information about them, but really? It looks terrible and like something that was created out of a DOS system in 1990. And thank you for making me take one extra step by having to click on another button to communicate with my friend . It's been awhile.

Lame.

Labels: Facebook, lame, social media, tip o' the day