Just a Matter of Priorities

How many times do we have to hear:
We don't have ENOUGH MONEY to fix Social Security.
We don't have ENOUGH MONEY to fix Medicare.
We don't have ENOUGH MONEY to provide health care to ALL Americans.
We don't have ENOUGH MONEY to help out Americans losing their homes.
We don't have ENOUGH MONEY to help all our veterans returning from war.
We don't have ENOUGH MONEY to rescue "no child left behind".

BUT...

We DO HAVE ENOUGH MONEY to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
We DO HAVE ENOUGH MONEY to bail out Bears Stearns.
We DO HAVE ENOUGH MONEY to bail out AIG.
We DO HAVE ENOUGH MONEY to quickly pass a plan that takes on over a trillion dollars of bad debt on Wall Street.
We DO HAVE ENOUGH MONEY to pay for an unnecessary TRILLION DOLLAR invasion and occupation of a sovereign country.

This is a serious case of income redistribution. The CEOs and “higher-ups” at these institutions received multi-million dollar payouts upon their exits but the people who could really use some assistance form the government get very little. Remember the big push in 2005 from the Conservatives was to private Social Security…imagine where we’d be if that happened.

We're living in strange times.