Stop squandering our national treasures

[asdjrocky]

By ROSE M. NOLEN

It seems like every week of this new year, we have been delivered another fresh dose of bad medicine. First it was the home foreclosures, now it’s the high number of car repossessions. So, with the loss of home, automobile, job and lack of health insurance coverage, you’d think the politicians would realize what a lousy job they have done running the country. But I am not certain, even at election time, that their concern for the working class is sincere. Of course, it could be that false optimism is so deeply bred into our American culture that it’s almost impossible for us to accept the worst-case scenario. Actually, I am so absolutely bored with hearing people say that all the country needs is a change of political party and everything will be all right.

A lot of people blame our dire financial crises on all those trade agreements, the ones our leaders have made to show foreign countries how much our leaders like them rather than the American citizens they were elected to serve.

Of course, people like me are considered too dense to understand the benefits of the global economy in which we manufacture nothing and import all of our goods from someplace else. And as far as all those companies that are supposed to be coming into America and creating jobs, I want to know the names of the companies and how many they employ, and I want to see a balance sheet of jobs coming in and jobs going out. I admit I don’t understand economic theory; I need to see a chart.

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http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2008/02/25/stop-squandering-our-national-treasures/

[mac2]

1. It's not even bad management...it's robbery for the few

ignored by the Congress who also walk away with their bag of plunder. How many elections will it take for our representatives to address this issue?

America for Sale...sold to the British, Canadians, Spain, China...and our enemies! Our Common Wealth sold to them. Who gets the money which paid for those publicly financed assets?

Get the feeling the EU is using the WTO to rape and take our power and wealth for themselves? We go to war they get the oil. They take our energy of Niagara Falls Mohawk to power Toronto, CN (with our government's privatization policy). Even our national forest timber for sale to them. Our railways also. It has become a security problem.

Anyone looking after our best interests?

[NJCher]

2. and for all the paranoia about national defense

It has become a security problem.


And you may have noticed the extent to which they care about security ends with getting our tax dollars to the military contractors.



Cher

[mac2]

5. Who steal it for themselves.

[mac2]

6. Any other Congress would have been up in "arms" about it.

[asdjrocky]

3. It's left to us to look after our best interests.

The problem is, the economy keeps everyone so busy trying to make ends meet, most Americans don't have time to notice how they're being screwed.

[mac2]

4. We have representatives who are supposed to listen to us

so our best interest is served. When they do not you replace them.

I call, write, vote, petition, join political action groups, send money,and plan to replace them in the elections. In a democracy I can't do it alone.

[mac2]

7. Ask anyone they will tell you they know.

Look at the polls for Congress and the President. They know!