No, really, WTF? November 20, 2008 – Posted in: Aberrant Normalcy

From AP News wire, via Yahoo News:

…the governors of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey asked the federal government for a $48 million emergency grant to help thousands of financial industry workers who are losing their jobs.

The governors say preliminary estimates show that 82,000 financial services jobs in the New York City metro area will be lost by the end of next year because of the global economic downturn.

The governors say the emergency grant would allow the states to give each laid-off worker $12,500 to help them find jobs and relocate, and provide them with other services.

You have got to be fucking kidding me.  $12,500 to help the poor, struggling, financial industry workers?  Last time I checked, these are some of the highest grossing individuals in the NY Metro Area.  This is the same crap that we heard about yesterday where the CEOs of the big three auto makers in the US were spending $20,000 on private jets to fly down to Washington to lobby Congress.  Their reason for burning through their companies’ cash as they ask for more from US taxpayers?  “Safety.”

This is just more proof that the US is a country of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.

How about giving some of that money to people who really need it, like, you know, the poor, and the infirm who can’t pay for the exhorbitant cost of health care and/or their “insurance” company refuses to pay for that life-saving operation they so desperately need?  Please tell me how laid off financial workers are labeled as an “emergency” but millions of uninsured and underinsured people are not?  I feel like applying for this grant just to see what they say to me in the rejection letter: “Sorry, you don’t make enough money to qualify for this free money we’re giving away.  Better try a financial serivices job next time, buddy!  ‘Cause if you don’t got money in this old US of A, well then you ain’t worth shit.”