That which follows is a 'copy & paste' from a comments posting I did at Mr. Ed's site. IT IS SIMPLY A RANT!
BUT - VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU --- IT IS THE TRUTH!
WANNA' LET IT 'SET YOU FREE'? THEN GET OFF YOUR FAT ARSE AND DO SOMETHING! WRITE LETTERS OR EMAILS, OR MAKE PHONE CALLS -- TO SO-CALLED 'REPRESENTATIVES' AT ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT!
INUNDATE THEM WITH A DELUGE OF BITCHING, MOANING, AND COMPLAINING! TELL THEM HOW YOU FEEL! SPEAK UP! STAND UP AND BE COUNTED! DO SOMETHING! ANYTHING!
SEE THE VERY BOTTOM FOR A FOOTNOTE!
ED ---
TERRIFIC WRITE! Although your story is sad but true, there's an even sadder one --- 535 GREEDY CONGRESS-PERSONS JUST SIMPLY DO NOT CARE!
The CORRUPTION & COLLUSION with CORPORATIONS STARTS AT THE TOP -- then doesn't 'dribble-down' -- it CASCADES DOWN like a waterfall to all the lower levels of government.
Laws are on the books, but NOT ENFORCED! Superficial FINES are occasionally levied, like a 'slap on the wrist.' The "WAR ON DRUGS" IS A SICK JOKE! The "WAR AGAINST CRIME" IS A SICK JOKE! The "WAR IN IRAQ" IS A SICKER JOKE! PORNOGRAPHY RUNS RAMPANT! THE OIL & UTILITY INDUSTRIES ARE RAPING ALL AMERICANS! DRUG MANUFACTURERS & THE CROOKED FDA ARE PUSHING POISONS ONTO/INTO HUMANS!
SOCIAL SECURITY IS UNDER ATTACK! SENIOR CITIZENS ARE FORCED TO CHOOSE BETWEEN EATING & PAYING FOR THEIR EXORBITANT MEDICATION COSTS! ABSOLUTELY NO ONE IS DOING ANYTHING TO PROMOTE & PRODUCE ALTERNATE ENERGY SOURCES! NATIONAL HEALTHCARE IS ANOTHER SICK JOKE! GLOBAL WARMING! and on...and on...and on!
PRAYTELL --- what could possibly be WORSE than all of the above? THE OVERALL APATHY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!
A MERE 'HANDFUL' SPEAKS OUT, AND OCCASIONALLY A-C-T !
Bear in mind that I have never been a fanatical, radical bible-pounding RELIGION pusher -- BUT, many years ago, when WE THE PEOPLE stuck our heads up our RECTUMS, and allowed only NINE ( 9 ) SUPREME COURT JUSTICES TO KILL GOD for GENERATIONS OF MILLIONS TO COME --- OUR COLLECTIVE SILENCE PUT THE 'SEAL' ON THAT HEINOUS ACT !!!
WE ARE NOW REAPING WHAT WE SOWED!
WAKE UP AMERICA - SMELL THE STENCH! POLLUTED FISHING HOLES DON'T EVEN RATE TO BE THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG! THE "TITANIC" IS SINKING AGAIN --- AND WE ARE TOO DAMNED BUSY 'ROSINING UP OUR BOWS' SO WE CAN
F-I-D-D-L-E SOMEMORE!
Sorry ED - sometimes I just get 'pissed off' because the PEOPLE ALLOW CONGRESS TO CONTINUALLY SCREW US! That just seems sadder to me than anything else anyone can conjure up.
WISH THERE WAS A LAW FOR HANGING CROOKED LAWYERS!
PEACE -- Tom.
FOOTNOTE:- One solitary voice, crying out in the desert, accomplishes very little, if anything! One little, battered and beaten DON QUIXOTE can not possibly slay all the DRAGONS!
BUT, BY GOD --- 300,000,000 AMERICANS CAN CHANGE THE WORLD -- AND
FOR THE BETTER OF MANKIND!
A JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES BEGINS WITH THAT SINGLE STEP -- PULL YOUR BOOTS ON WITH THE STRAPS, PICK YOURSELF UP, DUST YOURSELF OFF, AND SHOW THE WORLD -- THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKING!
