Robin Hood, Where are You??

I heard on the news this morning that Congress has chosen not to extend the unemployment benefits to millions of Americans who desperately need them...  citing "fiscal responsibility" they cannot see their way clear to help those who lost their jobs as a result of our tanking economy.  Ok, I get it...   they want people to work for their money, not just have it handed to them....   so then Congress, WHERE ARE THE JOBS???

If you don't want to be fiscally irresponsible and add 56 billion dollars to the deficit, in order to help your less fortunate brothers and sisters here in America, who by the way, did nothing to deserve the economic difficulties that they are experiencing, and try as they might cannot find a job, then at least you could work on creating incentives so that the economy will pick up and they will be able to get back to work and earn their pay...

Of course, there are always those Bush era tax cuts...   those can be extended to everyone, as Republicans would like...  now that would be real "fiscal responsibility" wouldn't it?  Especially extending the tax cuts to the wealthiest 2% of our nation...   I have heard from news sources that economists say that doing this would add somewhere in the neighborhood of 700 billion dollars to the deficit...

Yeah, that's the ticket to fiscal responsibility and economic growth...  give those wealthy people tax cuts that they don't really need so they can save the money, not spend it on expanding business and creating job growth....  as opposed to giving the ordinary folks money they need to survive, who will then spend it on necessities and put it back into our economy.

After hearing how "fiscally responsible" Congress wants to be now, I just have so much more confidence in my elected officials...  those people who are supposed to put the good of the American People ahead of their own agendas...

But I must admit that I don't have a lot of confidence in their basic knowledge of Arithmetic...  I mean, the last time I checked, 700 billion dollars was a lot greater than 56 billion dollars  [700 billion>56 billion]... so where is the fiscal responsibility in denying the needy and pandering to the rich?

Taking from the poor and giving to the rich....   Robin Hood, where are you when we need you????