Not Gonna Do It

Leroy Fick, 59, of Auburn, Michigan won $2 million in the Michigan Lottery. He continues to draw and use Food Stamp benefits. (Yes, you read that right)
Fick made the following statement to a reporter from WNEM-TV when asked how he could in good conscience use food stamps intended for people in bad financial straits, when he was a millionaire:
"If you're trying to make me feel bad, you're not gonna do it."
The good folks of Stockbridge are familiar with that refrain. But here in this little corner of Ingham County it sounded more like this:
We were fired.
There was no financial mismanagement. 
The Village is not broke.
We took employee hours away to balance the budget.
I didn't take my yearly bonus for the sake of good financial management.
There is nothing wrong with the budget. 
We are in good shape financially.
We needed the water and sewer money to pay bills. We can put it all back next month.
Someone fixed the elections.
People were saying bad things about us at work. We want our severance package.
And on and on and on ad-nauseum. There will be no apologies from the people responsible for the current financial crisis here, nor will there be any for what they have done to the people they were charged with serving. There will be no admission of guilt. That would assume that the people involved have a conscience.
 What it really boils down to is what Mr Fick so eloquently said when presented with his own reprehensible act:
"If you're trying to make me feel bad, you're not gonna do it."