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Letter to the Editor
October 13, 2013
"America, we have a problem."
Apollo 13 said these words "Houston, we have a problem" when their mission went horribly awry. Today, we in America, have gone horribly awry. Our leaders have traded political ambition and personal gain for everything America stands for. They have no concern for the damage or pain they are inflicting on the general public so long as their agenda is achieved.
These same people have voted down an increase in the minimum wage or to increase the taxes lowered by Ronald Reagan when he was president even though we were sent to fight in 2 countries unfunded and underequipped.
Women's right to decent healthcare has been curtailed and the issue of abortion is used to control and deceive a patriarchal group of white males fearful of losing their power to a woman.
Greed and avarice define the rules governing those in Washington as they negotiate the tricky waters of corporate oligarchy and fear of prosecution for treason. Prosecution for treason is almost a laughable matter if it wasn't so painful to watch what is happening to our country as it is bartered and sold to the highest bidder, foreign or domestic.
Our president has prosecuted more whistle blowers than at any time in our history while banks and individuals go free for lying to Congress, money laundering, dealing in drugs, selling illegal military arms to foreign countries and enslaving whole populations.
Our private lives are being surveilled by NSA because Google and Facebook have computer service centers in foreign countries which transmit IMs and internet emails from American citizens. This gives the NSA the 'right' to monitor all public and private transmissions since it goes through a foreign country. The fact the IMs and emails never go to anyone outside of the US is unimportant.
The Prime Minister of Canada has tried to coerce President Obama to approve the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline through our heartland to the Gulf coast. I thought we were a sovereign nation. I seem to remember that from history books back when I was a child. Congress and President Obama seem to conveniently forget that when they negotiate away our resources and our privacy.
None of these issues are being addressed because we have a group of right wing, corporate owned, self-serving egomaniacs that would probably be best described as psychopaths, holding our country hostage.
People have tried to protest the direction our country is going and they get maced, fire hosed, tear gassed and arrested. The First Amendment is nothing in the current police state in which we live. The Second Amendment is waved like a red flag in front of a bull to keep people from recognizing the destruction of our country by a few fascist oligarchs. We shoot each other and so we have become our own worst enemy. What better way to manage a population than to turn it upon itself? Anybody that has ever seen or heard of dog fighting and the way they are pitted against each other should recognize our current society. "Stand your ground" laws dare anyone to question another's right to defend themselves from real or imagined threats.
The Supreme Court has turned its back on the people and has turned the government over to the highest bidder. Citizens United opened the floodgates to money influencing Congress and buying anything else their selfish, little, worthless hearts desire.
In the meantime, Congress sits and argues pointlessly for days over something that every civilized country in the world gives their people; affordable health care. Ted Cruz was born in Canada and I bet his parents paid very little for his delivery. He will destroy America to keep us from having decent health care here. Is this hypocrisy or just a manipulation of a segment of society that believes America is for sale and its people don't deserve anything more than to be enslaved and manipulated for the benefit of the 1%?
We need to address the problems facing us, especially global warming and rising sea levels. We don't need to waste our resources running up more debt arguing over "who's daddy's bigger", mine or yours, like school children.
Apollo 13 said these words "Houston, we have a problem" when their mission went horribly awry. Today, we in America, have gone horribly awry. Our leaders have traded political ambition and personal gain for everything America stands for. They have no concern for the damage or pain they are inflicting on the general public so long as their agenda is achieved.
These same people have voted down an increase in the minimum wage or to increase the taxes lowered by Ronald Reagan when he was president even though we were sent to fight in 2 countries unfunded and underequipped.
Women's right to decent healthcare has been curtailed and the issue of abortion is used to control and deceive a patriarchal group of white males fearful of losing their power to a woman.
Greed and avarice define the rules governing those in Washington as they negotiate the tricky waters of corporate oligarchy and fear of prosecution for treason. Prosecution for treason is almost a laughable matter if it wasn't so painful to watch what is happening to our country as it is bartered and sold to the highest bidder, foreign or domestic.
Our president has prosecuted more whistle blowers than at any time in our history while banks and individuals go free for lying to Congress, money laundering, dealing in drugs, selling illegal military arms to foreign countries and enslaving whole populations.
Our private lives are being surveilled by NSA because Google and Facebook have computer service centers in foreign countries which transmit IMs and internet emails from American citizens. This gives the NSA the 'right' to monitor all public and private transmissions since it goes through a foreign country. The fact the IMs and emails never go to anyone outside of the US is unimportant.
The Prime Minister of Canada has tried to coerce President Obama to approve the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline through our heartland to the Gulf coast. I thought we were a sovereign nation. I seem to remember that from history books back when I was a child. Congress and President Obama seem to conveniently forget that when they negotiate away our resources and our privacy.
None of these issues are being addressed because we have a group of right wing, corporate owned, self-serving egomaniacs that would probably be best described as psychopaths, holding our country hostage.
People have tried to protest the direction our country is going and they get maced, fire hosed, tear gassed and arrested. The First Amendment is nothing in the current police state in which we live. The Second Amendment is waved like a red flag in front of a bull to keep people from recognizing the destruction of our country by a few fascist oligarchs. We shoot each other and so we have become our own worst enemy. What better way to manage a population than to turn it upon itself? Anybody that has ever seen or heard of dog fighting and the way they are pitted against each other should recognize our current society. "Stand your ground" laws dare anyone to question another's right to defend themselves from real or imagined threats.
The Supreme Court has turned its back on the people and has turned the government over to the highest bidder. Citizens United opened the floodgates to money influencing Congress and buying anything else their selfish, little, worthless hearts desire.
In the meantime, Congress sits and argues pointlessly for days over something that every civilized country in the world gives their people; affordable health care. Ted Cruz was born in Canada and I bet his parents paid very little for his delivery. He will destroy America to keep us from having decent health care here. Is this hypocrisy or just a manipulation of a segment of society that believes America is for sale and its people don't deserve anything more than to be enslaved and manipulated for the benefit of the 1%?
We need to address the problems facing us, especially global warming and rising sea levels. We don't need to waste our resources running up more debt arguing over "who's daddy's bigger", mine or yours, like school children.
Judy Ladd
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