Jim Bunning The Hero Time To Cut Loose The Unemployed Titanic is Sinking Not everybody Gets To Live
That was a heroic stand by Senator Jim Bunning who single handedly attempted to force the unemployment extension to be budget neutral by having it offset by cutting costs somewhere else. We’re all proud of ya Jim. We need more people like you who are willing to stand firm against a government that’s out of control.
At first you stood alone but your gallantry attracted other republican senators who formed ranks alongside you. This was a cause worth defending in spite of the hoards that amassed to take you down. Fiscal responsibility is a cause that is hard to argue against. In the end you were right and everyone else was wrong.
If you and those who stood beside you weren’t such freak’n frauds you may even have gained the admiration of most of the people who watched you take on the system. But as I suspected, once you get by the self righteous talk of fiscal responsibility the bottom line is you don’t believe there should be an extension of benefits.
Many conservatives and Tea Party activists agree with you. They applaud what you did not on the basis of fiscal responsibility, but on the desire to cutoff government handouts. Republicans are afraid that these payments for unemployment, social security and Medicare will become embedded entitlements that will transform America into a socialist state. Americans will eventually expect these entitlements as part of what they deserve for being an American.
Republicans are afraid that Americans will get use to living off the hard earned wages of those who actually work. A system where wealth is redistributed from workers to those who don’t. Or to put it another way, you don’t want your tax dollars to go to the currently unemployed because you believe they prefer to get paid for not working than to put the effort into finding another job.
This thinking is hyper-hypocritical. At some point republicans have to face the new reality. The free market cannot employ all those who depend on a job to survive. There is no insidious plot by the jobless to suck away dollars from working people to avoid working. The jobs just aren’t there right now. We are in an emergency crisis situation. It is a humanitarian disaster not unlike those caused by an earthquake or a hurricane. The death and property damage isn’t there, but the human misery is.
And so the question becomes at what point do Americans turn against there fellow citizens. For Jim Bunning and some of his fellow republican senators the time is now. The time has come to stop taxpayer money from supporting those who have been displaced by this great recession. The unemployed are being cut loose and set adrift. Sorry, but not everybody lives when disaster strikes. The fit need to cut the life line to the drowning or else be dragged under with them.
It’s a lot like that movie Titanic. When the ship is sinking the paying customers get a seat on the life boats since there is not enough room for everybody. The passengers who reside on the lower decks are left to drown along with the rats. And that may be a good thing since they were nothing but scum to begin with.
As for me I’ll go down with the ship rather than get on a life boat with Jim Bunning. I’d rather have my soul released along with the unfortunate who are left behind to drown than to be counted among the surviving cannibals who believe that god made them better than the rest of us.
