While our attention is manipulated to scare us about N. Korea, or Iran, or the destruction of healthcare, or how one party or the other is gerrymandering or finding ways to exclude voters they don't like, the big banks, financial institutions, the ultra-rich, the drug companies, the pesticide manufacturers, coal mine companies, and defense contractors are stealing us blind.
Wages have been stagnant for decades. The minimum wage is too low in most regions, college costs continue to rise, and healthcare costs keep rising.
Obamacare and the proposed Trumpcare both do all they can to enable health insurers, drug companies and medical equipment makers to get MORE AND MORE AND MORE AND MORE . . .
Consider: Whether you're a democrat or a republican, do you really believe your congress person or state senators are doing their best to bring you maximum benefits? Take note: Since we've turned healthcare over to profit seeking insurance companies our life expectancy has DECREASED.
The essential political problem for the United States to cure, is corrupt campaign financing ... by guess who? Right. The big defense companies, the drug companies, the insurance and bank syndicates, pesticide makers, etc. etc. etc.
We need to get back to where our elected officials, regardless of their party affiliation are working for US and not THEIR CAMPAIGN SPONSORS.
What's good for Exxon, Monsanto or Dow or Bayer may not, and frequently isn't, for you and yours.
Our congress is no longer OURS.
And acting on behalf of the oligarchs and biggest corporations who own them, our elected officials make foreign policy choices which, "in the National Interest" (BIG BUSINESS) keep us involved in bloody wars we never, ever mean to win.
From 1898 to the present, America's foreign policy can be summarized as follows: DO WHAT WE WANT YOU TO DO OR WE WILL KILL YOU.
The root of our problems, at home and abroad, is that we have allowed our elected officials to be bought by business interests.
Our government, from the Presidency on down is becoming more and more dysfunctional every day.
Pretending your democratic or republican party can solve everything is like pretending the tumor in your gut will go away if you don't think about it.
Who in hell do you really trust? Mitch McConnell, Schumer, Pelosi or Jeff Sessions? Or Don Jr., or Kushner, or Ivanka, or Hillary?
Think about it. And I hope it makes you as angry as it makes me!
Reality!
Wages have been stagnant for decades. The minimum wage is too low in most regions, college costs continue to rise, and healthcare costs keep rising.
Obamacare and the proposed Trumpcare both do all they can to enable health insurers, drug companies and medical equipment makers to get MORE AND MORE AND MORE AND MORE . . .
Consider: Whether you're a democrat or a republican, do you really believe your congress person or state senators are doing their best to bring you maximum benefits? Take note: Since we've turned healthcare over to profit seeking insurance companies our life expectancy has DECREASED.
The essential political problem for the United States to cure, is corrupt campaign financing ... by guess who? Right. The big defense companies, the drug companies, the insurance and bank syndicates, pesticide makers, etc. etc. etc.
We need to get back to where our elected officials, regardless of their party affiliation are working for US and not THEIR CAMPAIGN SPONSORS.
What's good for Exxon, Monsanto or Dow or Bayer may not, and frequently isn't, for you and yours.
Our congress is no longer OURS.
And acting on behalf of the oligarchs and biggest corporations who own them, our elected officials make foreign policy choices which, "in the National Interest" (BIG BUSINESS) keep us involved in bloody wars we never, ever mean to win.
From 1898 to the present, America's foreign policy can be summarized as follows: DO WHAT WE WANT YOU TO DO OR WE WILL KILL YOU.
The root of our problems, at home and abroad, is that we have allowed our elected officials to be bought by business interests.
Our government, from the Presidency on down is becoming more and more dysfunctional every day.
Pretending your democratic or republican party can solve everything is like pretending the tumor in your gut will go away if you don't think about it.
Who in hell do you really trust? Mitch McConnell, Schumer, Pelosi or Jeff Sessions? Or Don Jr., or Kushner, or Ivanka, or Hillary?
Think about it. And I hope it makes you as angry as it makes me!
Reality!