It's All a Scam

While the politicians in Washington argue over whether raise the debt ceiling, do away with social security, take funding away from community based groups and lower taxes even more for corporate America,  the Fat Cats are getting fatter and it's business as usual on Wall Street. The oil companies are showing record profits and Haliburton stock is currently at a 52 week high with net earnings of 511 million dollars in the last quarter.  Shell shocked vets are the majority of people staggering down the streets of America, sleeping in doorways and alleys. Hard working people find themselves unable to afford basic health care. I hear a lot about cutting government spending but I hear nothing about cutting politicians salaries, or limiting their expense accounts.  Instead I hear about proposed  funding cuts to Planned Parenthood (like we need more people on the planet!) National Public Radio, domestic and international Aids programs and on and on and on. Health care isn't even a real concern to them and god forbid we should tax the rich or hold those namesless faceless corporations accountable. It's a pretty good ride if you're a major stockholder. If you're a person that's simply trying to pay your rent you're on your own, Charlie.
Washington D.C. is corporate headquarters and the politicians are on the payroll.  They're no longer working for their constituents, they're available to the highest bidder and working for their special interests. The cards have been dealt, the outcome is predictable. More for them, then even more for them, and if that's not enough, let's make sure there's more for them.

The Two Party System

I don't know about you, but I'm completely sick of those boys in Washington carrying on about who's right and who's wrong. Clearly, they're ALL off the wall. The Republicans are acting our like 3 year olds who's favorite and only word is NO, while the Democrats have no backbone and keep looking for a compromise. I've always maintained that compromise is a terrible solution to any situation. Nobody gets what they want, and everyone is unhappy in the end.
A long time ago, there were some guys who were talking about government of the people, by the people and for the people. Those guys are clearly dead and gone gone gone. The only evidence I can find of their revolutionary existence reverberating in today's world, is on our money. It's about time to replace those Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin greenbacks with etchings of AIG headquarters, Wall Street, and Pfizer. The U.S. government, today, is of the Corporations, by the Corporations and for the Corporations. We the people seem to have no place whatsoever in the grand scheme of things, except of course, to hand our money over to the corporations in as many ways as possible. We can buy their products, we can buy shares in their future, we can bail them out when they say they don't have enough money.
I can't hear the voice of sanity in any of this bedlam. It's all brown noise. Where are the people? I can't hear them. Are they asleep? Doesn't anyone care that we seem to find unlimited money for war but universal health care is "too expensive?" Does no one see how ludicrous this is? I used to think things would be better if the power was distributed more evenly among the people. I do believe I've changed my mind about that. You won't find me running in the streets screaming power to the people, not these glassy eyed people sitting in a vegetative state in front of their TV's waiting for someone to tell them what to think....that's over and done.
Like it's as simple as one or the other, Good or Evil, black or white, the Republicans or the Democrats. This two party system is completely broken. Choosing between terrible and horrible is not really a choice, and no one is listening anyway. I think we have to fire them all and start again with representatives who actually represent us, who listen to us, who fight for us. Not these idiot men who are all in it for themselves and their bank accounts.