My Money is Spent How?

I'm not going to tell you that I understand the stock market or the way these big financial companies work, because I don't. Not in the least. The only conclusion I can draw from it all is that what they are dealing and gambling with is less valuable than the paper money circulating that is supposed to be backed by gold. Real gold. Gold in heavy, hefty bars. These stock brokers and whatever other players involved watch numbers flash across a ticker at lightening speed and that's what they are dealing and gambling with - blips of neon light. The numbers represent, supposedly, a vast amount of money so voluminous that no human being could ever count it in a lifetime if it was piled right in front of him.

So, here's all these major trading firms, commercial banks, mortgage lenders and financial insurance companies all whining for help, to bail their asses out before their walls all come crumbling down. Not one single financial genius is looking at the real reason behind the "worst crisis on Wall Street since the Great Depression."

And it's all so simple, really. A few years ago, when gas prices started to go up - something we can't live without - but blue collar wages didn't, the squeeze began. The 90% of the population that holds only 10% of the wealth in this country pay taxes while the 10% that holds 90% of the wealth enjoy government tax breaks, incentives and yes, trillions of dollars in "bail outs." Well, you damned idiots, what did you expect would happen when you drained your consumer market dry with your greed? You got all the money - aren't you happy now?

What really pisses me off is that we are all so well programmed that we do nothing while our tax money is spent to bail out badly run businesses. But, bring up the topic of "welfare" and there's a mighty public uproar. Why is that? It's right to bail out business with gazillions of money, but it's wrong to spend less than 11% of the national budget on Public Assistance, Medicaid and Medicare?

I thought the Consitution of the United States reads "government for the people, by the people." People, not businesses. People. You and I kind of people. You and I and millions of other people that make up that 90% of the population that holds only 10% of the wealth.

Go ahead and slam me for my idealism, perhaps my naivete, and if you want, for my trashy language. If it makes you stop and think about this long enough to slap me upside the head, then maybe some of it will sink in. We the people are the majority, and it's about time that the majority woke up.