Corporate Welfare - enough is enough!

"Welfare reform won't truly be considered a success until Big Business is told it will have to upgrade its skills, go into the marketplace and compete on its own merits." -- Rod Watson, "end Corporate Welfare to Achieve True Reform," Buffalo News (July 6, 2000)

I recall a Republican once telling me how upset he was that a woman in front of him at the grocery store had a Starbucks coffee drink in her groceries and was paying for it with food stamps. This was all the justification he needed to lump everyone on welfare as "taking advantage of the system", and as being "lazy".

A co-worker complained to me about a woman who was dress very nicely and had painted nails who was using food stamps. My co-worker implied that if you're poor you must look poor, have dirty and tattered clothing.

People are so outraged with those on welfare, passing judgement without knowing their circumstance. These same people won't blink when they hear about the various kinds of corporate welfare that our government is involved in. They don't complain to hear that a CEO leaves a company with millions of dollars as a severance package or gets a bonus of millions when workers are being laid off.

They don't complain when a CEO of a company, that the government has helped, is drinking Starbucks.

We most defiantly have a double standard, now don't we?

I mean we reform a welfare system that is in place to help people, while we continue to feed the corporate welfare beast. We are ok letting our schools and infrastructure go underfunded, but we cannot take away the Bush tax cuts to the wealthiest 1% of Americans. I mean it's ok for companies to rent a P.O. box and claim they operate in a foreign country so they can keep themselves from paying taxes, but if a individual does this they'd be thrown in jail.

Something is wrong here, isn't it?