In my advanced years I tend to desire contribution to my society. The best way for me to contribute is to elevate social consciousness by opening a dialog on the subjects that most disturb me. In this treatise, I am not going to analyze social behavior, except where it impedes our development. I'm not going to criticize affiliations except where they obviously deteriorate our country. I am going to outline the subjects that we as citizens must address because our government is broken and needs fixing. Understand clearly that I LOVE MY COUNTRY, and it's people, but even the most delusional among us can't deny that the Political Elite have abandoned the people. First, the most broken part is Congress. Sure the Presidency is important, but Congress is a sewer. We need to remove those who are entrenched, both Democrat and Republican, in the primary process. What about experience you ask? You mean the experience of making back room deals, and catering to special interests and lobbying. Our Congress was supposed to be a balance of power. An honest steward of our resources. As a Congressional leader, if you couldn't convince your fellow congressmen, in sufficient number, that what you proposed was valid, you didn't get the votes. We even took it one step further by separating Congress into two bodies as an extra protection. Now, look at what it has become. Earmarks-Pork Barrel-Bribery, whatever you want to call it, has perverted the process. Lobbyists, those who represent special interests, and buy the favor of Congress, through political contribution, payoffs, and manipulation keep essential progress from happening by protecting their special interests at our expense. Why do you think we are in such trouble over energy? Because we use too much? Because we are not ingenious enough to craft a solution? Don't be stupid. We are in trouble over energy because Congress has sold out to Oil interests. Fifty years ago, we should have issued huge grants to develop clean alternative energy.
The problems in the Middle East are financed by petrol-dollars. Your money pays for your problems. Then on top of that we hire a president who made his fortune in Oil. A pursuit he failed at until the Saudis underwrote his enterprises. Good Pick! One that has seriously tarnished the Republican Party. If we had been willing to use our own abundant resources, we would have been free of this Middle Eastern highjacking, but our ecological concerns restrain us. So how is it that we did not use our endless creativity to avoid our dependency on cultures that our diametrically opposed to our own. Think about it, and the path will lead back to corruption in Congress. Not only does your Congress spend your money irreverently, but they also steal it from you to begin with. Congress feel obliged to Tax you, and they do so with a system that constantly changes giving favor to one group over another, but that isn't the half of it, let's really understand the total disregard for you the citizen. You bust your backside to get ahead, part of the American Dream, and not only does Congress tax you, but they additionally rob from your estate after your death (Death Tax). So, any chance that you might have had to help your family deal with an uncertain, ever more expensive future, has been stolen from you after your death. If you perish without a will your fortune is probated and exurbanite amounts are given to the government in the process. Even if you die with a will, the taxation is based on the appraised value of your estate and not your equity in it. In other words the Government can take it all. If your Congressional leaders were honest Americans, these conditions would not exist. There is no way; you the citizen can continue to ignore these offenses. We must dismantle Congress and Fix it. The Concept of Congress is sound, the members are not. Now what can we do? Feeling helpless is how we the citizens buy into Victim status, which only leads to the destruction of your civilization. You can insist that your political parties present candidates who will address these issues, and take the old corrupt members out by primary selection. There, that's a plan. If you can suggest a better one, I'm all ears.
There is plenty of room in America for social disagreement and debate, but these essential economic issues are universal and beyond party affiliation. They are American survival principles, a true fairness doctrine and not the contrived diversions of a Congress that seeks to keep you ignorant and uninvolved. Be an American hero and make a difference - get involved in the cleanup process, before you wake up without a voice in your future. If we the citizens can open a dialog between us that focuses on our shared burdens and not our differences we can make a difference. Please join with me and speak out for Truth, Justice, and the American Way, before we become a third rate country When you think about it, you should be off the chart angry. How dare they think that sending you a few hundred bucks is going to fix the stupidity that the Wall Street Elite have thrown you into. It should drive you up a wall that Congress can spend millions of your dollars holding mock trials on steroid use and obesity legislation instead of solving the problems of government waste and irrelevant social programs. If you examined the give away programs provided to aliens for education, housing, and transportation, when citizens don't qualify for these grants, you would be astounded.
When you examine the activities of Congress, look for the hook. The members are bought and paid for, so their actions are special interests driven. Look for a benefit to the trial lawyers. Look for the benefit to the drug industry. Look for the benefit to the industrial military complex. Despite our philosophical differences, we must unite to make our government responsive to the PEOPLE and not their special interest contributors. Write your political party and demand new untarnished candidates for Congress. Ask them to draw from the Middle Class and not the Economically Elite. Don't be a follower be a leader. MAKE YOUR VOICE BE HEARD. Help save America instead of complaining about it. It's easy to find critics; it's hard to find contributors and problem solvers. Thank you for considering.