I was sitting here reading about the NHL lockout and just shaking my head and I realized that there is a lot in common between the NHL and our government. I mean for the most part they are all millionaires fighting over what? Money!!
Think about it, you have the billionaire owners locking out the millionaire players and neither side is willing to give in enough to get this thing taken care of. Then we have the millionaires that run the country failing to give enough to settle this fiscal cliff thing. And in the end who is hurt the most? We are, the average person, the middle class, the ones who watch the sport and the ones who did the voting. The sad thing is they don’t seem to care! We are only the other 98% of the country and we don’t matter.
It is sickening to watch this go on in either case when there are many, many families that struggle everyday just to make ends meet. Christmas is a major struggle for way to many families in our country and yet these people who fight over our money don’t have to worry about their own money at all. As far as I am concerned hockey can disappear and the government can shut down and either way I will not lose any sleep over it. In fact I don’t think I would miss any of the professional sports.
In the end all these million and billionaires need to remember why they are where they are. If it wasn’t for all of us they would not be making millions owning a team and paying millions to players to play a game. And that is what it is a GAME! As for the government we have voted you in office to do what is right for the nation in a whole. You are there to represent us, the people, not your party or your lobbyist. You are adults so you act like it and get this thing settled instead of seeing who can push who the farthest.
This is all just my opinion and I refuse to feel bad for anyone involved in professional sports or the government. There is a very large population that has taken pay cuts in recent years just to keep their jobs and even more that have to pay more for health insurance. I don’t recall ever hearing of anyone in professional sports taking a pay cut and I sure as hell have not heard of anyone of our so called leaders talking a pay cut and paying more in insurance.
So the NHL can just ignore the fans and the government can ignore the so called little people but they need to remember one thing, they do not exist without us, the other 98%. If we don’t watch the games or but the merchandise you have no money. And the less money we make the less the government gets. So here is a good idea, bring back our manufacturing jobs and put people back to work so that us 98% are making more money. Then guess what, we are paying more taxes to help pay for the stupid crap that goes on in our government.
