12/01/2011

LAY IT ON THE LINE

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6 comments:

Alex said...

The American public through their power to vote, elected congress males and females along with Senators, that they supposedly could trust to enact legislation that would protect Americans from all that was stated by Bernie Sanders. It was our protectors, our first line of defense that has failed us.

Those without power, money, or influence cannot to crap in this country to effect change and our leaders know this.

So much for our Republic and so much for our Democracy and so much for our freedoms that give us an opportunity to pursue happiness.

All of this is in the hands of someone else, so piss on yourself Bernie and don't blame someone else for what you and your colleagues allowed to happen.

Unknown said...

Correct me if I'm wrong Alex but hasn't the Nation established the fact that the Bush Administration lied us into the war in Iraq? Please think about it.

Alex said...

Yes Vic, you are absolutely correct, the Bush administration did lie to the American public, but so has every other administration whether it be Democratic or Republican as no administration is ever completely honest with the American public.

But, my comment was directly related to our congress and senate who, are our elected officials who look out for us. They have failed us as well. Knowing that adminstrations lie as a matter of routine, why would Congress and the Senate accept anything from a President on face value? You can fool me once but never twice...

The Congress and the Senate and the President are without debate, millionaires or became millionaires in office, so they are completely out of tune with the American public that makes an average salary of $50,000/year.

The congress and the senate could have stopped Bush and other Presidents if they really wanted to, so, where was their concern for US back then????? I would say it was at the bottom of their martini glasses.

Anonymous said...

Elected officials have failed us? Well . . . yes. But read Bernie's comment again. I believe he said something about Wall Street greed and the recession. I know you support the rich, but c'mon man, he has a good point. Why do you think the elderly should pay for the recession?

Alex said...

Yes, I have reread and reread and my thoughts are still the same. I agree about the unpaid wars and I agree about wall street greed. But to claim all our problems are based upon wall street greed is like blaming too much golf for the wife's reason for divorce. It contributed along with a dozen other reasons.

Yes, let's put the greedy wall street bastards in jail but let's also send to jail, all those Presidents who borrowed from the SS trust fund, all those politicians that have been influenced by lobbyists, all those politicians who took jobs as lobbyists after they left office, of the manufacturing companies who design products with built in obsolescence so that consumers would have to repurchase, or all those auto companies who built shitty products because they did not think drivers would give a damn, and my list could go on and on long before it gets back up to the greedy bastards on Wall Street.

DAN IN LA MESA CA said...

Our materialistic society that has evolved under the tender mercies of capitalism, tries to produce the ultimate limit of worldliness. Not since pagan Rome has there been such flowering of cheap and petty lusts and where there is no evil this is not fostered and encouraged for the sake of making money. We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to its limits and create even newer desires and synthetic passions possible in order to cater to the products of our factories, printing presses as well as movie and music studios. The air of our world is foul with lies, hypocristy, and vanities. Before it is too late we should be devoting our very short life span here to real values. True liberty awaits action.