The absolute disconnect I’m seeing in American politics right now I find staggering, and somewhat disturbing. We are in the biggest recession this country has ever faced with unemployment at a staggering 9% among working age Americans…that’s almost 1 in 10 people…and yet the Democrat and Republican parties have invested a staggering $800,000,000 on political advertising to put a handful of people into jobs that pay $130,00 a year.
If you look at it this way perhaps you will understand my angst. You could put 160,000 people to work for the next year and pay them $25,000 for that year’s work, that’s only 1% of the unemployed, but it’s a start. You could have paid off 1% of the stimulus that they said is costing everyone so much money. You could pay off .8% off the national deficit. For $0.39 a day, according to UNICEF, you could feed Manuel and his entire family for a week., so you could feed the entire country Manuel lives in for 10 years.
But instead they choose to misrepresent what the American people want by maligning the other candidate. This isn’t politics it’s a scandal of the highest order to me. People are hurting in this country and instead of fixing anything they argue about their own personal beliefs and furthering their own personal agendas. there is no representation anymore we are simply paying for a “Good Old Boys Club” to run our lives into the dirt all in the name of their idea of democracy.
We had a revolution in this country once for taxation without representation…
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