The Congressional and Senatorial office holders have put themselves above the people of this country whose problems they are there to find solutions for instead of providing privileges for themselves and their families far above those they set up for the people. This year they have really gone too far trying to push us into a health care mess the people do not want. They hide behind closed doors and generate plans that we are not permitted to see. This must be stopped.
They have also become a very exclusive club for family advancement for relatives and children to gain office. They seem to have only one aim and that is to gain power for themselves and their party. They try and do gain only favorable coverage from the press who they treat as their own private advertising agency. Even a party, many years ago that resulted in a young ladies death was reported in a very biased way.. Unless they are really caught doing something that cannot be glossed over they have no one to worry about. The ethics committee that is supposed to give oversight to members and hold them accountable is out to lunch. After all, it really only depends on what the meaning of is,is doesn't it?. Where have we heard that before?
If anyone had tried to get schoolchildren to sing a song about George Bush their would have been raised such a hue and cry from the left that would still be ringing through the halls of the capital. The teacher would have been hounded from the school and the papers would have crucified her. The people we want to be our representatives and want to run for office cannot even get a foothold in the two party system. The money interests that stroll through the halls of our capitol and the party hacks that seem to have been born in office and will not back anyone who will not bow to them and the special interests that finance the elections.
I believe it to be about time we cleaned house and got rid of all the old timers that look upon their offices as theirs and will do whatever it takes to keep it. What are we teaching our children about duty, honor, country and sacrifice if we allow this system to go on. They look at us and say "well if they can do it why can't we"? No one is held accountable and made to answer for their deeds. What can we say to them.? Their is example after example of congresspeople and senators that have been in office for 20 or 30 years and more. They are so entrenched in the political system that elections are just formalities.
They have made more money while in office than seems possible and then they have pensions worth a lot. All the while never contributing one dime towards any of it. They grant themselves liberal pay raises and medical coverage for themselves and family that is the envy of the world. My position is that they should have the same medical coverage they give to us under medicare and medicaid. After all , they seem to make enough to pay for their own like they expect us to do.
The whole school system has been turned on its head by special interests for every imaginable group, cause and far left nut cause. We cannot go on like this. Somebody has to say enough. The politicians seems to have let every special interest and lobbyist on the hill dictate what and how bills are developed and who writes them and why nobody knows what is in them. How can this go on any longer. Why don't they post the bills on the web for all to see. I will tell you why! They do not want the American people to see all the pork barrel projects inserted into every bill that comes before them.
Unless people band together with the tea parties and local groups in town hall meetings to take back our local school boards and kick out the national teachers union that has become a sprawling monster that has practically no oversight, then this country will decay from within. It is all up to us as individuals. We must stand together or fall apart. This is the only choice we have left.
Thus far we have seen what Acorn has done with voting fraud cases being brought forth in almost every state against them. People registered many times over, dead people voting, prison populations voting, and other illegal acts being charged against the organization. Video tapes taken by courageous people who knew they would be attacked and ridiculed in the mainstream press as they were when the story broke.Why have the regular news programs like CNN ans CBS and NBC and ABC not taken up and pushed for investigations into Acorn. Only after being goaded into it by Fox news who publicized the affair, did they shame faced and resisting, go into coverage of what happened. And even then they they went after the people that exposed the scandal and tried to make them the villainous party.
What is the Tides foundation story? It claims to be the brainchild of Wayne Rathke who it is alleged to have covered up the theft of millions of dollars by his brother Dale Rathke in 2000 from the Acorn foundation. The people involved in these two groups are now under investigation. We can only surmise what the results will be from the congress, controlled by democrats and most of whom have supposedly received money from Acorns political donations. It will remain to be seen how congress will investigate the organization when they have many members who staunchly defend Acorn and these are the same people who defended the Freddie Mack and Fannie Mae debacle that is still so fresh in our minds.
All the while the congress and senate go their merry way sticking it to us and buttering up their own plates. It seems to be that they can do whatever suits them and no one can stop them or say no to them. They have the ability to make their own laws and give themselves any perks they wish like expense accounts. I do not know where it will end or be curtailed by the people rising up and demanding real change.
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