I am not big on government and how all this works, but it has come to my attention the ours is not working at all. I know we have checks and balances and I also know we pay a bunch of people in Washington, D. C. to pass laws and generally keep my world spinning on its axis. Seems like there should be about 102 Senators and 435 Representatives ( I could be wrong on the actual numbers because my memory is not what it used to be back when I actually paid attention.) Along with all these people who are elected to represent us in our great capitol are many helpers, secretary's, and various assistants of all kinds. All these are there to make sure my life runs along on an even keel and I can go about my business of living and making money to pay taxes for these people to run my life. Not happening, is it?
I pay my taxes and the powers that be use my money to pay these great men and women to keep me safe and happy. Well, it sure as hell is not working out that way now, is it? We have a nut in the white house, placed there through the help of Communist Russia and the people I depend on to make my life run smoothly are running around like a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off trying to make me think that they are doing their job! How friggin' stupid do you think I am?
The Polar Ice Cap is melting because of a thing called Global Warming and the EPA is non existent.
People seeking asylum because they are being raped and murdered by the drug cartels in their countries are being locked up at our borders and their children shipped to "holding facilities" without even a wrist band to identify infant children so they can be returned to their parents.
Blacks and other minorities are being harassed by rebel carrying rednecks who are still fighting the Civil War.
Pipelines are being shoved across land that was "given" to the Indigenous People who habituated the land by our magnanimous government years ago when we stole the only home they knew. Bet they wish they could take back the welcome they gave us!
The streets are full of drug addicts that became addicted because big Pharma pushed opioids for every ache and pain through prescriptions pushed by doctors who received payoffs for selling the product that they knew were addictive.
Teachers are not given the tools they need to teach our children and the cost of getting a higher education gets higher and more impossible to achieve.
People die in our streets for lack of healthcare.
I could go on and on, but suffice it to say, no one is listening in the hallowed halls. The only time these people know we are here is election time. And that, my friends is the key! They are in Washington D.C. because we sent them there. You can send an honest person to Congress, but you can not get them back.
Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, and the whole damn bunch have been there and padded their pockets with money and favors from the NRA, Big Pharma, Monsanto and the Koch Brothers, just to mention a few. They are not interested in our welfare. What they are interested in are laws that let them operate at our expense. We are not even allowed the luxury of having our food labeled and the contents that end up in our bodies are irrelevant to the bank accounts of the powers that control our lives.
Do you think that the man that ordered the babies taken away from their only security on this earth bothered to ask why so may people were running from one country. Hell no! That man is a loose cannon and the very people we sent to protect us are in bed with the enemy. The countries around the whole world laugh at us. We are backward and we should be the leaders. Other countries educate their children and furnish healthcare , but we set here like morons wondering how in the hell that joke of a man got into such a position of power. Let me tell you, if we do not pull our head out of our ass and wake up the Congress we are going to be marching off to our own Auschwitz. And it has to start with a whole new bunch in Washington who are not controlled by money.
Think your vote does not count? Think again. Not voting or casting your "protest vote" is what got us here today. For God sake, educate yourselves! Register. Study your candidates and do not just go with what Facebook puts out there as fodder for the masses! The race for even your precinct in your local city is important. The mayor race is important. The Governor, Senator, Representative, and on and on. The school board. Do not go like a lamb to the slaughter because the man you sent to the Senate all those years ago, is a familiar name.
I watch as groups march against the yoke being tightened around our throats and I watch the nightly news and see the leaders in Washington doing nothing. NOTHING!! Their job is to lead us. Yeah, like lambs to the slaughter. Use some of your precious minutes to call their offices and tell the answering machine (because very few of them even bother with a live person in their office) to stop the madness and return us to the civility that we deserve. We work hard and pay a congress to protect our interests. And do it today. Not tomorrow or some future time when a man with a tattoo gun is putting your identification on your forearm as he leads you to a bus.
A country that does not learn from it's mistakes is doomed to repeat them.
I pay my taxes and the powers that be use my money to pay these great men and women to keep me safe and happy. Well, it sure as hell is not working out that way now, is it? We have a nut in the white house, placed there through the help of Communist Russia and the people I depend on to make my life run smoothly are running around like a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off trying to make me think that they are doing their job! How friggin' stupid do you think I am?
The Polar Ice Cap is melting because of a thing called Global Warming and the EPA is non existent.
People seeking asylum because they are being raped and murdered by the drug cartels in their countries are being locked up at our borders and their children shipped to "holding facilities" without even a wrist band to identify infant children so they can be returned to their parents.
Blacks and other minorities are being harassed by rebel carrying rednecks who are still fighting the Civil War.
Pipelines are being shoved across land that was "given" to the Indigenous People who habituated the land by our magnanimous government years ago when we stole the only home they knew. Bet they wish they could take back the welcome they gave us!
The streets are full of drug addicts that became addicted because big Pharma pushed opioids for every ache and pain through prescriptions pushed by doctors who received payoffs for selling the product that they knew were addictive.
Teachers are not given the tools they need to teach our children and the cost of getting a higher education gets higher and more impossible to achieve.
People die in our streets for lack of healthcare.
I could go on and on, but suffice it to say, no one is listening in the hallowed halls. The only time these people know we are here is election time. And that, my friends is the key! They are in Washington D.C. because we sent them there. You can send an honest person to Congress, but you can not get them back.
Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, and the whole damn bunch have been there and padded their pockets with money and favors from the NRA, Big Pharma, Monsanto and the Koch Brothers, just to mention a few. They are not interested in our welfare. What they are interested in are laws that let them operate at our expense. We are not even allowed the luxury of having our food labeled and the contents that end up in our bodies are irrelevant to the bank accounts of the powers that control our lives.
Do you think that the man that ordered the babies taken away from their only security on this earth bothered to ask why so may people were running from one country. Hell no! That man is a loose cannon and the very people we sent to protect us are in bed with the enemy. The countries around the whole world laugh at us. We are backward and we should be the leaders. Other countries educate their children and furnish healthcare , but we set here like morons wondering how in the hell that joke of a man got into such a position of power. Let me tell you, if we do not pull our head out of our ass and wake up the Congress we are going to be marching off to our own Auschwitz. And it has to start with a whole new bunch in Washington who are not controlled by money.
Think your vote does not count? Think again. Not voting or casting your "protest vote" is what got us here today. For God sake, educate yourselves! Register. Study your candidates and do not just go with what Facebook puts out there as fodder for the masses! The race for even your precinct in your local city is important. The mayor race is important. The Governor, Senator, Representative, and on and on. The school board. Do not go like a lamb to the slaughter because the man you sent to the Senate all those years ago, is a familiar name.
I watch as groups march against the yoke being tightened around our throats and I watch the nightly news and see the leaders in Washington doing nothing. NOTHING!! Their job is to lead us. Yeah, like lambs to the slaughter. Use some of your precious minutes to call their offices and tell the answering machine (because very few of them even bother with a live person in their office) to stop the madness and return us to the civility that we deserve. We work hard and pay a congress to protect our interests. And do it today. Not tomorrow or some future time when a man with a tattoo gun is putting your identification on your forearm as he leads you to a bus.
A country that does not learn from it's mistakes is doomed to repeat them.
PEACE THROUG POWER!
