Liberal shortsightedness

I have the dubious pleasure of having to pass a house on the way to and from work where they are VERY Political, Liberal, outspoken. And they regularly put up some of the most inane things… the latest one is a neon green sign with black lettering nailed to their fence that says…

“Do you Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took trillions in TARP money, gave themselves billions in bonuses, paid no taxes, And dumped a million gallons of oil in the Gulf of Mexico? Yeah. Me Neither.”

Here are the problems I have with that.

1. None of the entities listed here have done for us what the businesses that are being picked on in the statement have. Public employees. PBS and NPR have never employed thousands of people, they have never provided us with the oil or products that we NEED for survival and, some of these would not be possible if it weren’t for the businesses that are being railroaded by this statement.
2. The person/s who post these things refuse to understand that if it were not for the taxes that businesses pay then the public employees would not be paid and the support would be dropped for NPR and PBS.

None of the “examples” that were used in this really contribute to the nation as a whole. Oh yeah NPR will play classical music and PBS will show sesame street and these are great for cultural purposes but if we cannot eat or keep warm or healthy then those points (culture) become unimportant. Before you can feed a person’s soul you have to feed their body, and none of the examples given do anything to feed a persons body.