Sometimes we must ask ourselves the tough questions and in the processes of answering them we find the path to the way forward.
What happened to America, where a person could work hard and improve his/her lot?
What happened to your word was your bond?
What happened to people agreeing to disagree and still respect each other?
What happened to people like Ronald Reagan (Republican President) and Tip O’Neil (Democrat Speaker of the House), opposite ends of the political spectrum, who used to share a drink with each other and still get things done?
What happened to people in congress representing the voters instead of special interest, big business, political parties and the desire to remain in office at all cost?
What happened in America where business can do no wrong?
What happened to religious institutions who let members hide behind the mask?
What happened to religious institutions who thought slavery, separate but equal, and women’s suffrage were ok?
Are these institutions stuck in the past or have they finally learned that everything in life has evolved hopefully or sometimes regresses?
Why are people with money worshipped as gods?
What happened to taking responsibility for your actions?
When the economy was collapsing id 2008/2009, where was the leadership in business?
They took the money, ran, and said we are not accountable.
We the people let them?
Where was compassion?
Where was accountability?
Where were our leaders?
Where were we the people?
Where was the Supreme Court in Citizens United?
Can the court reverse itself? It did in separate but equal (Plessey v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education)
It will take courage to admit you made a decision that had unintended consequences.
Why does a corporation have bigger say than average person or family making $52,690,
Why do large influential rich people and corporations hide behind secrecy while demanding transparency for everyone else?
How is it the government is seen as the enemy, when we made it what it is?
How is that we forgot that the reason behind the EPA was, for example, rivers and lakes becoming polluted, the Cuyahoga River caught fire (explain that to your child), and the air we breath is making us ill?
Where are the jobs of the future?
How is that we are going back to the middle ages to lord and ladies and the serfs?
How did living on $7.25 an hour become acceptable?
Business is not bad; it is the people who are running many of them that are.
If people were honest and had integrity we wouldn’t need regulations, because we would always do the right thing.
Regulations are necessary, but we need ones that make sense for everyone concerned.
Ok Congress, I will give you house rental or mortgage and ask you to live on $7.25 an hour and see how you fare.
Why is the child of a more affluent child worth more than a poor one? Perhaps that poor kid will be the next Einstein.
How did the union of the few become dominion over everybody else?
Before you accuse the infamous “them” as the problem, take a look at yourself first and picture yourself standing before all that there is and saying “I did my best”.
Remember to ask your “$174,000/year + benefits” Congressmen & Senators why they can’t pass a budget on time (Oct 1st ) not February of the following year. After all they make 3.3 more than the average family and if they were in business would be fired.
We are the people!
Call your Congress person and Senator and flood their phones for days and tell them do their jobs and remember they represent the people first, not themselves, special interest, big business or their party (which is not in the constitution).
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