My Political Rant
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Are we Americans any better off than back in 1776 when England was taxing us without representation and using the revenues for their own political purposes? Today it seems that our government representatives are taxing us and using the revenues to promote their own political interests with other politicians, other countries, corporations, special interest groups; not to mention their own financial gain. Not all politicians are doing this, but the other politicians know what is happening and ignore it.
Why does our government show no interest in determining why gas prices shot up to $4/gal or why the banks squandered revenues and why FanneyMae and similar organizations have created a financial blunder that is now driving our Nation even deeper into debt? I suspect it is because their personal friends are involved with all these scams on the American taxpayer. Even our new President Obama says the $300 billion released by the previous admininstration is unaccounted for!
This has to stop. You can't fix any problem by simply throwing money at it. First you must determine the source of the problem and fix that source. If you skip this step, then the same forces will repeat themselves. Our news media treats this entire disaster as pure happenstance but we Americans all know that thieves in high places are causing these problems. Where is our Justice Department on all these issues? Oh thats right, their friends are involved too.
Why do so many politicians owe large back taxes to the IRS? If myself or any other non-political American is behind just a little, we are receiving threatening letters from the IRS within a few months. Not the politicians, they are years deliquent and our untrusty news media just ignores this obvious fact. So much for fact finding by our news reporters (reporters was a loose term, today all we have are talking heads that repeat what ever they are told to repeat to keep the ratings up).
I may sound defeated and angry but I am not. President Lincoln proclaimed that America would be destroyed from within and we are now watching it take place via greed and corruption. A Nation of Law will die when right and wrong are no longer a part of our institutions.
All we Americans have to do is quit ignoring what is happening all around us and force our government representatives to represent us as they have sworn to do. "Evil flourishes when good men do nothing". It is now time for you to do something. Write your representatives and let them know that you want this non-sense stopped or they will be voted out on the next election. Let them know that you expect to be represented and if they are more interested in special interrests then they are out!
Speculators are driving gas price increases much more than production costs. Gas speculation is a direct violation of our National interest and is closer to treason and price fixing or monopoly than free enterprise. Congress two years ago held hearings on C-span about FanneyMae and their inappropriate risks, and the Congressmen attacked the regulators. Why are these Congressmen (and women) not held accountable for their brash actions two years ago? We have their names and faces and their exact words on C-span videos. If you want me to go on I can, but I think your get the picture.
DO SOMETHING NOW.
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