Their initiative actually sounds good if it is for real. They will invest in 10,000 small businesses with grants and loans totalling $300,000,000 and some GS employees will be involved in a mentoring program. (Just don’t teach the the dark side, ok?)  The program is an obvious effort to make up for the news of GS profiting like gang busters in the midst of this recession, (nothing wrong with profits just greediness) and holding up $16.7 billion to compensate employees which is up $4.3 billion from 2008. It is good to be GS!

Powell when confronted with a question if the firm is trying to bolster its image replied, “We’ve been working on these kinds of initiatives that use our resources and our people and our convening power to make a serious impact.”  Oh yes they always make a serious impact. I wonder how many ex-Goldman Sachs employees are in the Obama administration?

Lloyd Bankfein CEO Goldman Sachs. Looks like a guy who would lend you the shirt off his back at 1000% interest!

It appears to me that the government is really bad at running anything. Medicare is trillions of dollars in debt. Social Security has been robbed from for decades and who knows what will happen when all the baby boomers retire. The government can no longer win a war or win the peace in foreign nations. They can’t even protect our troops from a Muslim terrorist in their own ranks.

In my opinion the government no longer can function to do the duties it was assigned in our Constitution. There is a two party system that is 98.9% lawyers who continually pass laws and spend money that is not there to spend.
Yes, it seems like America is Lost but I do know what happened. We the people have never instituted term limits and the same idiots who made this mess keep getting sent back to do more damage. When is enough enough for the majority of American people? Will we just sit idle as our country goes down in the dust?

Isn’t she adorable?

The most sickening details a mid level manager in charge of writing checks was taking $60,000 in bonuses for herself while pushing through over $140,000 for tuition reimbursement for her own family according to the VA Inspector General office.

What really makes me angry as a veteran is that service members who need the assistance of the VA stand in lines, shuffle miles of paperwork and get that we are the government and control you attitude from these same people.  How much red tape and denials do our Veterans go through just to get additional training when they need it for employement?   Then they are working at jobs that maybe, just maybe if  they are lucky pay $60,00o per year! 65% of the Veteran claims for benefits are in backlog.

We need change in this country and it is up to us.  This government is dying on vine due to the leaches who work in it and fill the offices in congress.  It is still barely in our hands.  American citizens who love this country need to turn them out.  Vote against anyone who is all ready in government and replace them with your neighbors or yourself before they initiate changes that prevent even our votes from counting.