Thursday, July 25, 2013

Money Does Not Buy Politics In This Country

Now that the 2012 Presidential election is over we are hearing from the losers that they think it was weather, money, voter fraud and any other excuse, except their message, as the reason they lost.  Someone needs to have an intervention with the power to be in the Republican party and let them know their "message" is what was defeated, not their candidates necessarily however there were a few that definitely lost their way.

Yes, there were some candidates that committed political suicide with their big mouths but overall the defeat was due to the underlying feeling that hardcore right leaning people exude from every pore of their bodies a meanness that does not befit a human being.

It was the disrespect for personal freedom and rights felt by everyone including some Republican sympathizers. The utter lack of respect for laws and regulations and a moral compass is what got the Republican candidate defeated.  The attitude that cheating and lying is okay as a means to an end.  That is just plain wrong on so many levels.  Hopefully the latest loss by the right shows that a majority of our country's citizens believe in the Constitution completely and not just the part that suits them. 

Inclusion instead of exclusion should be the mantra of this great country. When someone works hard they deserve a minimum wage that will take them above what is considered the "poverty level". Otherwise, why work? The incentive to live off of the public dole is too big sometime in many parts of the country where the "socially oriented" candidates are located. The system is set up for abuse instead of efficiency. If you are like me, at this point you can see the inefficiencies in the system and together we could fix it in one legislative session.  Right?

Here is what we would strive for in my opinion.

* Those physically fit should be expected to work or pro-actively looking for work while getting assistance. Picking up trash along roadways, taking money from patrons at land fills and recycle facilities, and many other jobs that can be done by those on welfare in their local areas. Even a disabled person that can sit up in a chair and do menial tasks can earn money.
*  If you receive food stamps, you agree to buy only those items that are life sustaining edible foodstuffs that enhance everyday life and the pursuit of happiness. Alcohol, tobacco, pharmaceutical, firearms, ammo, sports, recreational, clothing or any other non-food item are prohibited items.

When given a hand up in this country, a person could rise from ashes and become a successful person. I don't know of another country in which that can happen without special favors. We have to begin taking care of our own country before we pretend to help any others.

Capitalism makes that possible.  We as a country have decided that Capitalism will be our way of handling commerce within and without our country. Let's put it to work for the benefit of our people right now!  Let's fire the electors we want to replace and let's put our country's moral fabric together again for the world to see what the United States of America really stands for!  Hip Hip Hooray!

Sorry, I got a little carried away! :)

We do have a great country and it is worth saving for our offspring.  If you have never traveled the United States of America you will find there is something special and unique about this country everywhere you travel.  Perhaps that is the way to make a connection with the USA, explore it and live it.

Nazi Roadblocks in the United States of America???

Fellow citizens of the United States of America please listen to what I am about to say...if there is anyone listening, ever??

Well, at least I get to vent my perspective and read it back to myself which is pretty good therapy in itself; but I would like to know someone else is reading my blogs besides me.  I see the events happening before our eyes and fear that not many citizens are paying attention.  If I could get my blog read by a lot of citizens, maybe there would finally be no need for bombs, terrorists, mass annihilation of people, killing over territories, countries, kingdoms..there would be no need for the wire taps, NSA breaches of our freedoms, anarchic actions by radicals, weapons of mass destruction, war, revolts, revolution, attacks on governmental agents, rockets killing innocent people and all of the other terrible things that exists in this country and around the world.

We are slowly being squeezed for every freedom we have had as citizens of the United States of America. My forefathers fought hard for those freedoms, some of them giving their lives to put them in writing, our Declaration of Independence. They left Europe in waves to get to this country and be free of King George's influence and unfair taxes on commerce. We are losing those freedoms in the name of "homeland security". The real reason is "efficiency" and sometimes that can be bad for personal freedom.  The agencies that have the task of keeping this country safe are up against a lot of problems.  There is no question about that, but we have to remember what country we are protecting and the freedoms we  all grew up with.  We have to remember that our job to secure the country needs to be done without stepping on anyone's rights as citizens.

We have to ask ourselves if we are ready to give up freedom of unencumbered travel within our country's borders? Are we ready to have police checkpoints between states and not just at our borders with other countries? Are we ready to give up several freedoms and rights given to us by our Constitution, written by men with an amazing amount of forethought? Our rights are well defined by our Constitution, the right to travel unmolested within our country. If we are not breaking any laws that are obvious to an observer from the outside of the sanctity of our vehicles, it should not be legal for our police agencies to stop us or search us.  That covers many of the rights described by our forefathers listed in our Constitution.

The two documents I have mentioned, The Declaration of Independence and the United States of America's Constitution were written at great peril and suffering by their authors because of their efforts to secure personal freedoms and rights of the ordinary citizen and not just the elite politburo of the country.

Make no mistake about it, there is a politburo in place and because of an unbiased media in the past, we have kept the politburo under control. The sly devils have been able to enact legislation that allows the media to be "bought". I mean the word "bought" in every way you can spin it.  Bought in the way a legislator can be bought, through election contributions and favors. Who wouldn't be tempted to take easy money if you could talk about how much you are doing for the people that elected you to office? It would be difficult to be a legislator if you did not do favors and enact legislation friendly to your contributing constituents.

We had a media back in the forties and fifties that was second to none on reporting what was going on in this country. They felt responsible for the content of their reporting and if they missed something in the first report it would not be long before it was corrected and reported. When these individuals that owned and ran the media went home, they lived among their listeners/viewers and communed with the city dwellers. They felt like they had a responsibility to their patrons to be factual, unbiased and proactive in getting the facts. Commerce was always the underlying motive for existence, as it is in all media, but a responsibility to the citizens that they served.

Competition has taken the top seat in the fight now and that breeds contempt and suspicion against the competition.  This leads to underhanded actions being taken to become the advantaged competitor. Greed and envy are very powerful human emotions and will drive a person to do things that are not good.  Unbridled negative energy such as this can only lead to negative results. We cannot expect anything else, after all, our generation basically ceded our place in society. We let all of this occur during our watch.

I am sixty-seven years old and I belong to the generation that tore down some of the mystic of the politburo in place at the time.  We came out in numbers that make these latest "protests" look like a neighborhood barbeque.  It's camping time down at the square, don't forget your grill..what a joke, right?  When we got together there were thousands of people there ready to assert our civil rights to come together in protest of governmental actions we did not agree with. That is part of your Constitutional Rights as a citizen of the United States of America.

We were infiltrated by radicals taking advantage of the massive amounts of people in one place just as every protest gathering is infiltrated.  They made headlines from time to time but most of the protesting was actually the citizens and students of our country showing the politburo they had gone too far in their actions. The Viet Nam conflict was not necessary and more than 56000 people had to die before the "people" were listened to and the war was ended.

To understand the irony of that you would have to recall the reason we were given for fighting the Viet Nam war.  The reason given most of the time was that we could not let the south fall to the north because the unified Communistic government would be dangerous to the world. Today we are on "most favored nation" basis with Viet Nam. This result could have been reached without a war. Common sense is rearing it's head at this point asking the question "why then did we have to go to war in Viet Nam?".

Then fast forward to the year 2000. Why was it so important for George Bush to win that election? After all, he did not get the majority of the popular vote.  Various biased reports have listed Bush winning by a very small margin because of the recount of ballots but that is not accurate.  Those that know the background of the mess in Florida all agree that Gore got the majority of votes in Florida but those votes were destroyed in one way or the other.  "hanging chads, mis-marked ballots" and other underhanded things done to suppress any votes for Gore in Florida caused Bush to be selected by the Supreme Court as the winner of the office.

Guess what? We all swallowed that one too, didn't we? Did you see anyone out there protesting that election much?  Not really..just a few that wanted to go out and protest something and this was handy to them. We have become so complacent as a citizenry.  "Leave me alone and you can do what you want" has been a common mantra for most of us in recent years.  Me too! I sit here and type out my frustrations in this void of internet I found called 'BlogSpot'.  There are millions of us here and none of us hardly know the other exists and we are trying to get someone to read our stuff?  Almost laughable unless you are writing about something you care passionately about and it frustrates you that other authors get their pitiful blogs seen by millions and you cannot get anyone to read yours.

I feel your pain..