It appears that American’s are once again going to be mortgaged for the elite few. I find it quite disturbing that in the stimulus package that is working it’s way through Congress contains so much PIG FAT and not enough TENDERLOIN. I sit and watch our Congress and quite frankly, I am disgusted at the way they speak about saving the economy but yet want to fund programs that will do nothing to stimulate investment. Has Congress become another social club? Is Congress a club for the elite?
In my community, people are losing jobs everyday. Elderly widows are calling worried about losing everything they have. Our media appears to be waging an intimidation campaign by misinforming the public. Yet most of us stand silently by and watch events unfold. What about the middle class individual who finds themselves trying to make it on unemployment when they struggled while getting a paycheck. What about the single parent who struggles with childcare, the elderly with medicare, and others who struggle with simply surviving? What is Congress planning to do for them? ATV trails, Sex Education, Tax breaks for Hollywood producers only serve a small group of people and provide absolutely no value to stimulate the economy. Maybe Congress should cut their pay in half and show that they understand what it is like to struggle. Of course that will not happen even though most of them would realize very little impact to their wealth.
Finally, I ask, how many more in our Congress have not paid all their taxes? Not to be pessimistic, but I believe we would find that scandal, lying, cheating, and other shading things to be commonplace among this elite group of men and women. In the movie, “Remember the Titans”, the two captains are arguing about not pulling their weight. One says, “the team reflects the leadership”. Our country today reflects the direction that our leadership, Republican and Democrat, has taken us. The buyouts will continue with little or no oversight because of the perception of doing something. The something that they are doing is weakening the financial future of our children and our country.
History shows that every country that has ever had power has experienced a life cycle. Today, America is in the survival mode which was brought on by apathy. The next mode we will find ourselves in is death brought on by the bondage of debt. History has repeated this cycle many times and it is in the process of repeating it once again.
