Forum Post: Are we all spoiled hypocrites?
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 12, 2011, 12:28 p.m. EST by jastb1
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from Little Rock, AR
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Why is it for years American Corporations have pillaged and ravaged countries around the world for resources so you can live your comfortable life and never given anything back to the poeple who are displaced, poisoned or killed by puppet dictators supported by our corporate greed and two-faced Government without the slightest wimper from the american people, but when you feel the tides are turning all of a sudden there is an uproar.
It is not the wealthy to be blamed for our own complacency but ourselves, those who chose to live comfortably and expect everything to be laid at our doorstep.
This is all non-sensical balderdash. Government won't fix anything and we are giving them a blank check to run amok. It is up to the people to set the agenda to turn this country back to what our nation was founded on.
We have allowed our Government to grow to a tyrannical entity that strangles every aspect of our everyday life while doling out money to individuals and corporations akin to the corruption which is the downfall of many Governments in the past. But our Government is better for taking care of the disadvantaged with free healthcare, housing, food, transportation, utilities, education, etc... at the expense of the working class. This system is not sustainable and falls on the backs of the very people who are working everyday to make this the greatest country.
So, short of a populus movement to bring sanity back to our governing principles and return to a strong and prosperous country which would require the great minds akin to our founding fathers to step into the resulting vacuum, we are pretty much up a creek if we believe any of these politicians will ever do anything to help the working class.
In short, empty rhetoric is the rule and status quo is the norm, it ain't going to change folks.
Your frustrations are valid and nearly universal. Throwing in the towel is about the same effort we have been investing to change things for decades. I can't see how more of that will help.
I keep coming back to, "People get the government that they deserve." Maybe we should pick up the towel, start acting like responsible adults and insist on the changes that we need but we could start being better examples of what we want everyone else to be. The is little effort in blame. lot's in change. Suck it up and work harder at changing you.
The TEA party isn't about growing more tea or making tea. It's about putting too little tea in too much water and frankly, there was too much salt in it. It is a very weak solution.
And not to mention a complete waste of tea... The only reason Britain fought back was because it was tea... you know how they are about tea lol