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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