Who speaks for the unemployed? Who?
Who is speaking for the unemployed?
And the poor, those living from paycheck to paycheck, veterans living on the edge, and others who are considered the least, the last, and the lost?
There is a budget than unconscionably cuts unemployment benefits 3 days after Christmas. This is on top of cut after cut that has already decimated the safety net. Children in this country are going hungry. Yet, the 'representatives' of somebody are denying them even more food.
Congress gets paid. So do all the people that work for them. The lobbyists aren't going hungry. The Pentagon has been receiving money in bits and pieces because those giving it to them hope nobody notices. They all have voices.
The banks got paid. Financial institutions were bailed out. Corporations retain tax breaks and brazillions in profits. The rich suck up every crumb of wealth in any form that they can.
As some of these groups were being helped, they were dumping people out of their homes, cutting jobs, wages, and benefits. They were refusing to put their money back into the economy. So they created a hot mess that affected many people adversely and then turned their backs on these same people who were hit the hardest through no fault of their own.
It was an economic hit and run that left pain and misery behind. It's no secret who ran over them. Yet they are not being called into account. They continue to flourish.
So where are those voices for those who can't be heard or who won't be listened to. The Democrats have usually been their champions yet they are unaccountably quiet. Why? It's too risky to ask for more gruel?
Congress will get to go home. Think about that. HOME. At the same time they will have visited more misery on those who have no homes or are holding on to the ones they have with their fingertips.
They all should be locked in the Capitol with no heat and only bread and water. Then they might have one inkling of what it's like to do without. As it is, they don't know and worst of all, they don't care.
Meh! They all deserve to have ghosts at the end of their beds rattling chains every night.
= new reply since forum marked as read
Whoever it is, we haven't heard much from him. 
Actually the lobbyists that they did have, namely Occupy, were ignored, ridiculed, surveiled, beaten and arrested.
