Everyone I know agrees that the United States is in trouble.
Government sequestration, mounting debt, high unemployment, the housing crisis,
immigration reform, a war that has lasted way too long and veterans going
without promised benefits. These are just a few of the problems our nation
faces. At present there is a lot of
finger pointing and blame being placed for our current situation. The democrats
are blaming the republicans and the Bush administration; the republicans are
blaming the democrats and the Obama administration. While the blame game is
being played nobody is doing anything meaningful to fix the problem. A lot of people
have good ideas as how to fix these problems, but their ideas are never heard.
Our current representatives don’t listen to the grass roots American man on the
street. Most politicians are out of touch with working class Americans. Our
representatives are too caught up in party politics and not interested in
working together and compromising to create solutions to our problems. So who
do I believe is to blame for our current situation? That is an easy answer, our elected officials
and career politicians. ALL OF THEM.
I would like to take this opportunity to pass a message to our
elected representatives (remember you are elected to represent “We the People”,
not to rule us). Go out and talk to your constituents and not just the ones
affiliated with your party. Find out what the people you represent want, not
what you think they want. After each and every one of you has done this, go
back to Washington, lock yourselves in session, work together and while keeping
the desires of your constituents in mind, fix the problems. In other words: Do
Your Effin Job. It’s what we elected you for and what we pay you to do. Thank you.
I underline your remark "So who do I believe is to blame for our current situation? That is an easy answer, our elected officials and career politicians. ALL OF THEM" Earlier before I said the same thing on Google+. I think there's a next problem. Politicians are unable to cope with future problems. Almost all their attention points at short term problems. And their political ideas are strongly coloured by the next
ReplyDeleteelections. How to get and hold the support of the people (immigration reform. Politicians however often are obliged to take measures that hurt and they have to stand for it (public debt, povertyproblems,gap between rich and poor, a bulky lower middle class hardly benefiting of the wealth, etc.... We urgently miss personalities who can build bridges between Re and De, between all those groups of people that spill energy in scoldingn each other instead of working together to restore the American dream and turn around from the American nightmare
Well said Lammens
ReplyDeletemy issue is that personalities take the issues away from the people. you get a shooting, someone from hollywood becomes the icon, on all the news, talk shows etc.
ReplyDeleteyou get a natural disaster, bruce springsteen becomes the spokesperson.
you have issues with gay marriage, rosie odonell is there.
any single issue always presents one of these hollywood types and the voices, the organizations, the people are dumbed down. i dont know the voices of the towers or sandy hook or colorado.
just some talking head of someone with an interest in publiity. os it is not only the pols. the press is responsible for a lot of what is happening. the limelight seekers. the ordinary people no longer have a voice in the news, the tv, anywhere.