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Categories - Shopping - Free Online Business Help - Telecommunications Services Articles: Government - The Government is Still Not Listening We have, in succession, elected a new Congress and a new President to no avail. The policies and agendas that we have been so overwhelmingly against for over six years are not only still in place, but they are being proliferated and expanded. It has become very clear that our public servants, instead of representing their constituents, serve someone else’s agenda. We elected a new Congress to end the war in Iraq and they did not do it. Instead, they made excuses as they continued to allocate the money. To add insult to injury, with each war-funding bill, they attached allocations for pet projects to try to distract their constituents or for personal gain. Legislators like Pelosi, Feinstein, Menendez, and Reid even tried to trade war funding for amnesty for illegal aliens or, in the case of Menendez, 500,000 more H-1B visas. While our soldiers were dying for their country, these people were trying to give our nation away. Then we elected Obama, in large part because he promised to end the war in six months, and we increased Congresses power. The promise turned to sixteen months and then to twenty-three with 50,000 of our children being left permanently in Iraq in “security” and “advisory” positions. Then, to top things off, 30,000 more troops were scheduled to be sent to Afghanistan and that number may grow to 50,000. The wars are not ending. They are being sustained.
American citizens have made it very clear that they do not want to award amnesty to the illegal aliens that have broken our laws and taxed our social infrastructure. We do not want illegal alien immigration reform, but this continues to be on the top of the list for House and Senate leaders to get passed. Not only do they continue to try to pass this legislation against our wishes, but they have intentionally failed to implement E-verify with an ill-advised stimulus bill that would insure that taxpayer funds are not used to provide jobs for immigration law violators.
Over 90% of the population did not want to loan its money to banks that had proven that they couldn’t manage it and we let the existing Congress, which was much the same as the current Congress, know this. Congress ignored us and passed TARP legislation anyway only to have the money horded by the banks, passed out as bonuses, or used to buy failing banks for pennies on the dollar while stockholders lost their holdings and the population lost its retirement funds. Instead of slowing, foreclosures and job losses increased. After the election, instead of stopping the madness, TARP Reform was implemented and more of our money was given to the same failed banks as new records for foreclosures and job losses were set. Billions of taxpayer dollars are being sent offshore to foreign interests and outside of the jurisdiction of Congress. Now, the Treasury has announced that it intends to buy $1.2 trillion worth of worthless securities to relief the banks of more or their mismanagement. As advisor Larry Summers states that we have to pay the AIG bonuses because we are a nation of laws and the government cannot abrogate contracts, he ignores the laws and contracts with the people that were abrogated in the Constitution in order to loan money to AIG and the banks. The nation’s currency is being destroyed on behalf of private enterprise.
We have also made it very clear that we want the federal government to be smaller and less intrusive in our lives. Instead, new bureaucracies are being added as the government assumes control of our medical treatments, more people are added to serve unnecessary, destructive broadband and green energy initiatives, and small business killing legislation is passed in toy manufacturing and farming.
Instead of taking the change in government that we have made as a warning, legislators and our new President have misunderstood it to be an award of carte blanc so that they can continue their destruction unopposed. We have to make another change and the change we need in order to return our country to its prosperity and greatness is not going to come from the existing batch of public servants who have assumed the role of rulers. Freedom is the source of our success and we have to elect people who will give it back to us.
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