Michael1942's Blog

Reading the various opinions in Today’s SJ-R that range from Bank losses, socialist leanings of the government and our Novernor, I am thinking that the ideas and opinions of the several writers while valid are pronounced in a vacuum. The writers have to look further afield than the issues they opined about. First we as voters have endorsed the actions of the Federal and local governments by tacitly ignoring the missteps of our elected officials as long as we got what we needed or wanted. If these judgment errors did not interfere with our lifestyles or inconvenience us in any big way then we looked the other way. I am not excluding myself in these actions but I have come to understand that we voters want it all as long as we do not have pay for it or are not required to do anything to get it. It is unfortunate that we have taken up the cause of Government malfeasance when our Commander in Chief is not white, this has afforded that same Congress and others to use that as a tool to keep us occupied rather than with what they are doing to us or not doing for us. The long serving Congress under several Presidents are the people who we need to look at for the poor performance of our Federal Government. No President Black or White can do anything without the approval of Congress and that Congress is less an extension of the people who elected them than people who use their office to further their own agendas. To address the writers, keep writing your opinions and express them to your elected Congressional representative , Federal and State. There can be no change in our Government until we the people let them know we are dissatisfied as I do.