Job Security

If someone gave you a job, would you turn around and disregard the employer's wishes and expect to stay employed? No you wouldn't. How can you expect your elected officials to be any different?

Too bad I'm not talking about our vote. Our elected officials take a great deal of money from private interests; the Banking Lobby, the Insurance Lobby, the Law Lobby, Unions, ETC. They take this money and use it to convince us we should vote for them. When they succeed, guess who they serve? Not us. We're easily minupulated. We're not invested. We have short memories. We don't hold these peoples feet to the fire,... and they know it.

The interests who give politicians money are a different breed. They're invested, hard money, and they expect results. If they don't get it, they don't reinvest in the individual. They'll get another horse. Our politicians know this. They serve who bought them the job. You'd do the same. You wouldn't have a choice if you wanted to stay employed,.. and boy it's a nice job. Lots of perks.

Look at the problems we need to solve right know. The economy. Had we better regulations of industries key to the economy, we would not be in this mess. What we need to shore things up, is better regulations of these industries. It's not going to happen. Our politicians take too much money from these interests.

Let's talk about health care. What we need is health care requlation, insurance regulation, and legal reform. Don't count on it happening. Folks from both sides of the aisle feed from that trough.

Our government should be in the business of protecting us. They don't. They can't. Instead, they make their job in trying to provide for us. They don't really do a good job of that, either, except to pacify us. Nearly half the people in this country do not make enough money to even pay tax. I expect the number to grow.

We've allowed ourselves to be duped, to become complacent, to become weak. We surrender our freedom for a false perception. I don't expect anything to change. Apathy is king in America.