Topic: Social and Cultural Issues
RE: AIG Bonuses - "Americans are immature twits" - Jim Babka, Downsize DC

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One of the founders of Downsize DC today accused Americans of being "immature twits" in the way they have responded to the AIG bonus scandal. Considering the facts, can you disagree with him?

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by creator
(libertarian)
Monday, March 23, 2009

♣ Monday, March 23

In a newsletter mailed to almost 25,000 members, Downsize DC founder Jim Babka didn't pull any punches today when he described public response to the AIG scandal.

As if the title of the newsletter, "Everyone is wrong about the AIG bonuses," wasn't enough, Mr. Babka made this assertion:

"We need to stop getting worked up about symbolic trivia and start getting worked up about REAL ISSUES."

One might wonder aloud what Mr. Babka would consider a "real issue" if the use of taxpayer dollars to fund huge AIG executive bonuses is, by comparison, not one? The background, he went on to explain, is that congress itself explicitly authorized the very bonuses it then went back to deny!

This should make it obvious that Barak Hussein Obama who signed, and that all members of congress who voted for the so-called "stimulus package" had to have known about the bonuses in advance! Either they knew about, and intended bonuses to exist, or they didn't know but voted for or signed anyway! Talk about dereliction of duty!

In response to public outrage, instead of taking responsibility for their own actions, members of congress have engaged in cheap theatrics. Take, for instance, Senator Grassley's call for AIG executives to commit suicide. Did the senate not know that bonuses were placed in the bill by Senator Dodd? Or did congress simply not bother to read the bill? Ken Jacobine of Nolan chart has written eloquently about this in his recent article "It's Washington's Fault."

However according to Babka, we the American public are complicit in this fiasco by virtue of pressuring congress about the wrong issue:

"I'm going to be blunt, because blunt talk is easily understood. The American people need to stop being immature twits. We need to stop getting worked up about symbolic trivia and start getting worked up about REAL ISSUES. Making Congress read the laws they pass is a REAL ISSUE."

You can read all of Mr. Babka's diatribe here at the Downsize DC website, but I have to agree with his core thesis: We, as Americans, are indeed foolish to rise up and force congress to deal with mere results of congressional irresponsibility. We ought rather to be regularly and overwhelmingly harassing each of our representatives until they fix the fundamental flaws in a system that allows such nonsense to occur!

Have you complained to your "representatives" lately? Are you concentrating on mere symptoms, like the (in comparison to the entire "stimulus" package) relatively trivial issue of AIG bonuses? Or are you ready to strike at the root?

Let's band together and force congress to actually READ the bills they so cheerfully vote for. Don't you agree that, before they cavalierly spend your money, your representatives ought to have at least had the courtesy to have read and understood what they are spending it on, AIG bonuses or otherwise?

Tell your representative and your senators to co-sponsor the "Read The Bills Act" today - Jim Babka's fine organization, Downsize DC, makes it easy for you to contact all three of your congressmen with a few keystrokes. Let's start pressuring congress today to deal with the core issue!

© 2009 Dann McCreary (aka creator)
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