A COUNTRY WITHOUT A GOVERNMENT

I live in the United States of America and I am proud to be an American. Now at age 65 I realize that this is no longer the country I was born and raised in. We are now a country without a government. Sure we have people that sit in Congress, work about a third of the year, and lie out their teeth.

I remember when Congress, Democrats and Republicans would work together in the best interests of the American people. There used to be few lobbyists in Washington. That has changed. Now instead of listening to the American people, members of Congress are wined, dined, and paid to vote in the best interests of large corporations. We are in an era of major environmental disasters because safety regulations are being relaxed or abandoned in the interests of large corporations.

We have basically a two party system. The Democrats that want to give everyone everything. I believe that when people need help they should be given it. I believe in mandatory drug tests for anyone receiving unemployment, welfare, and food stamps. I don't believe in giving something to freeloaders.

Then we have the Republicans. A party that is no longer the Republican party of old. They have been overtaken by the Tea Party. A bunch of radicals, that wants to end Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare. Why doesn't this party want to help the American people? Pure and simple, they want to cater to the millionaires and billionaires of this country. They are now a party of no and hate.

However, I will not blame it all on Republicans or Democrats. I think equal blame can be taken. One of the worst things I have ever seen to destroy America and the middle class was when President Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). It was at that time when millions of manufacturing jobs left America for cheap labor countries. Since then other trade agreements have been signed to allow more American jobs to go overseas.

We now live in a country where Republicans are trying to suppress people from voting. What they are really trying to do is limit the poor people from voting. Why, because many of the poorer people vote Democrat. Politicians in America are elected by who spends the most money. The candidate that spends the most money wins the election over 90% of the time. Politicians are bought by millionaires and billionaires who spend millions of dollars to get their candidate elected. What this turns out to be is that Democrats won't work with Republicans and Republicans won't work with Democrats.

That leaves us with what we have in the United States of America today. A COUNTRY WITHOUT A GOVERNMENT!!


Copyright  Larry W. Fish  2014