Gettin' fucked over by the rich

"Everybody know the poor are always being fucked over by the rich.  Always have, always will."--King, Platoon

From The Daily Kos, on Detroit's bankruptcy woes:

"Wade P. Johnston got his bachelor’s degree in finance in 2012 from Michigan State University and is part of the team the consultants, Conway MacKenzie, have working to turn around city operations. The Birmingham firm billed the city $288,671 for the work of 11 staffers over two weeks in July, including more than $26,000 for Johnston alone.

The records give a rare look at the costs being picked up by the city and state, a breakdown city council members and other critics have argued has been hidden amid Detroit’s historic bankruptcy. Conway MacKenzie’s hourly rates range from $495 for the group’s senior managing director to $275 for Johnston, who started with the company in June as a senior associate, according to records. [...]

Conway’s rates are not the most expensive. The city’s bankruptcy firm Jones Day has charged up to $1,000 an hour, according to a July story in the Am Law Daily website."


Amazing, isn't it, how Rick Snyder and his team of financial boobs can find the money to pay the above figures, but you know, for those pensioners, well $32,000 a year is a just a king's ransom.

Interesting, too, how those republicans in our state legislature just go on and on about government spending and how overblown it is, but make no mention of the state paying some jackass a year out of college $13,000 a week ( but, oh, how overpaid those autoworkers are who make $60,000 a year).

They're not even trying to hide it anymore--the republican party is the party of the moneyed elite and frankly, as far as the other 90% of us are concerned, well hell, if we can't afford bread, we can just eat cake.

Peace,
emaycee