Day after day I sit at this computer reading news headlines, and day after day I wonder what in the hell has gotten into us?
Lately it seems that we’ve lost our flipping minds!
Missing lately is a sense of common sense.
Our respect for others is gone, any sense of compassion for the citizens of this country by corporate America has vanished. Our voice in government has been obscured by money & influence. It’s like “We The People” don’t matter any longer.
GUNS:
Under the Second Amendment, as least for the moment, citizens can buy guns that are almost identical to military issued weapons.
These weapons have only two purposes:
- To kill as many humans as possible in the shortest time.
- To kill them so effectively that they are literally shredded.
However, these military-type weapons are legal for ordinary citizens to buy because one can use them for target practice or hunting or shooting events.
That’s nice.
That’s also insane.
Why are citizens allowed to have firearms so close to what police or the military have?
This is even more insane!
This is a lack of common sense and responsibility by our highest court and the United States government.
It’s kowtowing to special interest groups (read NRA) and a ridiculous fear that we’ll hurt somebody’s feelings or ~God forbid~ violate Second Amendment rights.
Bullshit!
There are plenty of other firearms to have to hunt and target shoot with.
Grow up, people!
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GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION & INFLUENCE:
Our government has been corrupt for a long, long time. I am not a political law person, just an ordinary citizen who has some questions.
Why isn’t it illegal to influence our government officials?
Obviously lobbying isn’t. Obviously bribery isn’t.
It’s done in the halls of this government and in every state every day!
If it IS illegal then we need to lock up most of our government!
The only losers: the majority of the American people and the environment.
For instance, companies like Monsanto are using the world as Guinea pigs with GMO food, herbicides, pesticides and the United States government is letting them get away with it.
We are dying of increased rates of cancers. Our pets are dying of cancer, bees are disappearing, our groundwater has high concentrations of Atrazine and Round-Up.
Little children are getting cancer whereas this was once a disease of older people. The FDA, USDA, EPA have been influenced – or should I say -threatened – by Monsanto and other monolithic companies. Yet we have our richest of the rich like Bill Gates, under the guise of being a humanitarian, is promoting Monsanto’s agenda to help feed ~and poison~ the world!
We are also being systematically poisoned and sickened by food corporations by the use of additives and chemicals that in some cases, have only the say so of the manufacturer that they are safe.
The FDA has ruled for the food companies, allowing manufacture and sale of these foods, using the test results OF the food company’s biased testing, while omitting review of any independent tests.
This is fraud!
We are held hostage by the corporations and our own government. Oh, there are a few who are fighting for us in Washington but those who are in it for the greed and money outnumber them.
To me the scales have been tipped so far out of the hands of the American people to favor corporations.
We literally have no say any longer.
What has happened to our elected officials working FOR THE PEOPLE instead of the corporations?
Simple: money!
This is despicable!
What can we do, though? If the ones who write and pass the laws are influenced against us – how can we ever hope to change things?
I am sickened at what our government has become: fighting like a bunch of little children, totally ignoring why they’re in government in the first place ~and~ ignoring the American people…, but still they bicker on, passing watered down legislation to supposedly protect us or help us. The corporations and special interest groups have more money and thus, more voice than “We The People.”
This is NOT our government any longer – we have been shut out!
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CORPORATE AMERICA:
The American worker is screwed.
Back to corporate America: GREED reigns and the workers who are out on the floor of the large corporations are treated almost like slaves.
We’ve lost our jobs to third world nations to “save money” in corporate pockets.
Walmart, the nation’s largest employer, buys clothing from factories in Bangladesh, Vietnam, Pakistan, Thailand, Indonesia – yet they still screw their own workers regarding wages and benefits.
Before Obamacare, companies like Wal-Mart, Lowe’s and others adopted the cost saving initiative of only hiring people part-time for just enough hours NOT to qualify for any benefits.
I worked for Lowe’s from 2003-2007. When I was hired people could work full or part-time. Now, only their top store management and some department people are full time. Everyone else is hired part time.
The corporations of this country are purposely destroying the lives of most of the workers in this country by denying hours, a living wage and benefits.
We are going to become a service-orientated nation, fighting over jobs at fast food restaurants.
We are going to die premature deaths because ~like me~ millions of people cannot afford healthcare so we do not go for regular checkups.
More of us are going to lose our homes because we cannot get enough work to keep up the mortgage payments or taxes.
WHY? Because this country is now run by greed by corporate America!
They will NOT invest in this country; they will not spend the money it takes to create the jobs that millions of us need.
They will just continue to take, Take, TAKE and walk on the broken backs, shattered dreams and lives of the average American citizen.
SHAME ON YOU CORPORATE AMERICA! You can save this country but you won’t.
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Where IS common sense?
Why has it left our government?
Why aren’t WE THE PEOPLE organizing and fighting back to get OUR country back?
Why do we have corporations making decisions and literally, running our lives?
Don’t we matter anymore?
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A Little Knowledge Is A Dangerous Thing! 
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