Posted by
Phil LaFontaine on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 10:51:54 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, it's fast approaching election day again. We will be inundated with BS, lie's and half truths in order to sway our beliefs for the sake of votes for the usual suspects. Let's review what we have heard in the past and look at where we are now, based on overblown promises,and visions of sunshine and lollipops.
Each year the politicians tell us they are going to fix: Health care,social security, medicare, the budget, address lobbiest invlovment in legislation, jobs, taxes, pork barrel spending, congressional perks, and the list goes on, and on, and on. Reelect me and I will right the wrongs perpetuated on the American people and this Great Nation.
Sounds like a line from Mr. Smith goes to Washington doesn't it. The problem is, they are the problem, not the solution. Look at all the problems this nation faces, and who proposes the fix for these problems,the politician who claims to have the magic wand to correct them.It's the greatest scam there is. They make the problems and ask us to send them to Washington to fix the problems they created.
They are there on our behalf to solve to problems facing this country, and all they end up doing is creating more problems for them to "FIX". Can anyone see the Merry-Go-Round we have been riding. I would like someone to approach a politician and ask why you appear to creat more problems than you solve. Each election year, we elect a new batch of representitives to solve the problems at hand, and by the next election year, nothing has change, yet they have the audacity to look us in the eye, and state that they are here to correct the problems, yet never mention that they have created them in the first place. We give them a check, and they just hand us another bill.
Social security: They partly created the problem by raiding the social security trust fund for purposes other than social security leaving it unfunded. They did that, and now want us to believe every year that they have the solution, which of course never comes to fruition. If they kept their damn hands out of it, we wouldn't have such a large problem. Remember this is a problem they created and now want you to believe they will fix.
Health care: We first heard that there were roughly 42 million Americans without health care.Taking into account young people who could care less because we are all bullet proof at that age,brings us down to approximatly 27 million, now reduce that by the amount of illegals in this country they want to include in this number, would bring us down to approximatly 7 million, and of those, most can't afford it, or would rather have a car payment. Now here comes Obama and the goverment with national health care for everyone to the tune of over one trillion dollars, when all he really needed to address was 7 million. As I have stated before it's like you wife coming home and saying honey we need a new bathroom remodel, and you proceed to bulldoze the house to the ground. I'm sure we can take care of the elderly, but have them understand that they can not run to the hospital for every runny nose, I painted that with a broad brush, but you get the point.
The budget: Every year they spend money like drunken sailors , (My appoligies to all sailors of which I am one). They go on junkets to the tune of thousands, and hand us the bill. They fly in corporate jets, again thousands.Attempt to build bridges to nowhere on our dime for the sake of what, a contractor friend.You have John Mertha blowing money on an airport that services four planes a day, one of which is his, and the cost to the tax payer in the millions. You have that crazy old bird from W. Virginia BYRD who has his name on more buildings, than there are buildings.And who foots the bill for all this, we do. Since when was going to congress to represent your people include serving yourself in the process. The federal goverment has their nose in everything you can imagine, yet that is not their mandate. Their mandate is to protect the citizens of this country from enemies foriegn and domestic, to collect taxes, to operate a post office,and to help maintain a a viable highway system, thats it! Now we blow money on the arts, which now is an arm of the Obama ad package. We have subsidies of farms, ( which most these days are corporate agri businesses), and we hand out money to foriegn nations that hate us. Our tax dollars were never meant to support other countries, and now you have the WORLD bank the IMF dictating how much and where our money will be spent, NO! But hey they are here to help us with these problems. Who creates them?
Medicare: Look, you have an aging population that needs our help. I know the United States has some what of a jaundice view of our seniors, and treats them like they are sucking up all this money through health care, but we owe it to them to take care of them as best possible. These are the men and women who have held this country together,raised us, fought for our country,and taught us to become good citizens. The problem with medicare is abuse. If you have free health care, some people are going to take advantage of it, it's human nature,so set reasonable guidlines and adhere to them.
Lobbiest: How in hell is the average American going to get a fair shake from their goverment, when it is being controlled by special interest. Look at the current land grab called eminent domain where a corporation wants your land to build a shopping plaza, and with the help of the people elected to safe guard you and your property, they rip it out from under you, because the politicain owes them a favor for all the campaign money given to them. Get rid of the lobbiest unless it is a group which represents the people.
Taxes: They all claim to have the magic bullet to reduce taxes, and every year, they find a way to raise them. Not always up front mind you, when they think you are looking, they raise fees instead of income taxes, stand before you and claim they are going to raise fees and taxes on the evil corporations. DUH! corporations don't pay taxes, they just send it down to you in higher prices.But the goverment can say they didn't raise your taxes. A SCAM! It's all perception.
The bottom line is, we need to give the federal goverment an enima; clean it out and start over again. Only this time, we set the rules,and let them know that we know they are the problem and not the solution. If you have a solution, present it, if you don't fulfill that promise, start looking for another job. I am sick of these idiots playing word games with us, as if we are to stupid to figure out what they are up to.We have been asleep for the last fourty yeasr, and it's time we wake up and start to hold their feet to the fire.And if they don't come across with their promises, vote them out and try again. We will only have to do that through a few elections until they get the message.
Good luck in november, and remember when listening to all these speaches, temper your thoughts with, are they going to fix the problem, or be the problem.