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Daily Archives: May 16th, 2015

The Dog Pile


There appears to be a worldwide tendency to pile on the United States which seems to have begun with our very own Congress and associated backers. I cringe at the idea that our country is allowing closeted and outright bigots to make our laws but given all of the rhetoric and media coverage of the Whitehouse  one has to consider the possibility. The Congressional group and their allies have singlehandedly handed a license to pile on the United States government by rogue and near rogue governments, factions or fringe groups on any initiative, talk or other efforts to work on the world stage. What does the election of Israel have to do with us? Nothing, yet the Senate invited the aspirant to speak in the Senate to reinforce their contempt for the President. Our 535 has been poor at legislating but pretty strong at getting coverage by “faux” news to get their disingenuous message out while running for office at every opportunity. It is these actions by the Congress that should wake the voting public up and start some reforms in Congress. These reforms are no more than electing someone else to serve rather than maintain the same status quo due to lack of information, biases or laziness(?). If we need to elect someone new every election cycle then we should probably do it until we get what we require. It is the duty of the legislators to support the President by supplying correct information as determined by the many ambassadors, committees  and staffers employed for that purpose. Instead the Congressional seat fillers have spent too much time rebutting  and getting the party message out than assisting in a universal  message to all including the world leaders. It is easy to pile on to keep from being piled but a little more difficult to stand up for something different.

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535 Nattering Nincompoops


What ever happened to the premise , idea or fact that our elected officials represented us instead of praying to the dollar gods? Recent legislative actions aimed at cutting the Government deficits will directly affect the less fortunate and  financially challenged Americans (you know the same people who were slammed with subprime loans). Our erstwhile legislators have spent an enormous amount of our money (yes our money-remember our taxes pay their $175000 annual pay) crafting laws to cut expense to Medicaid, and other social programs while boosting the money for the war machine. This is not to say that the military spending should not be funded but at the same time many lower grade military families will be affected by the cuts made by the 535. I am wondering how long will it be before  the American people, who are so often cited by the legislators start to see the true nature of our political “leaders”. If we look at the really big picture we can easily see the trend of our current representatives from both sides to do as little as possible while espousing record of getting things done “for us”  (or more precisely -to us!). Our country is under the grip of huge moneyed people who have essentially bought and paid for our Congress and will attempt to purchase the Presidency in the next election. As a minor observer of politics and by no means an expert, I can see the forest for the trees and hope that some others will observe the same.

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