One Year Later ...

Well, it is almost a year since Obama was sworn in as POTUS. However, “Change you can believe in” has proved to be an illusion. The only change that we have had is a change of some of the faces. It is the same old politics because Obama is just another politician. Compromise has been his mantra, it is what he lives by, but should you compromise with the devil? It would appear that he has done just that, especially on healthcare. The insurance industries stocks went up when the Senate healthcare bill was passed, why was that? Could it be that they got most of what they wanted? With Democrats like this, who needs Republicans? They say that we shouldn’t let the perfect be the enemy of good, well, let’s hear it for mediocracy.

What about the Republicans? They truly have been the party of NO. They have not offered, in spite of their protestations to the contrary, any constructive alternatives to any of the current problems. They complain about the deficit, but where were they 8 years ago? I will tell you, they were spending like drunken sailors and borrowing the money from China. The trend has continued. They deregulated business or ignored the laws that regulated business and lead us down the path of destruction. The Republicans started us down the path of destruction and now the Democrats look like they are going to finish the job.

Both parties are trying to feather their own nests, they are not concerned about the common man in the USA. Business and our government have destroyed much of the middle class. Our industry has left our shores and we no longer have the capacity to build the things that are necessary for our survival. We don’t even make our own clothes anymore. If China ever gets mad at us our troops will have to fight bare assed. Our steel industry is all but gone, computers and electronics are made over seas. We were once the arsenal of democracy, now we can’t even make our own shoes. Soon we will not even be able to feed ourselves.

Business has sold us out for short term profits, they could care less what happens to the country. Business would be happiest if we all become indentured servants or slaves. In fact that is where we are headed. They want to lower our standard of living, but not theirs, so that they can reap obscene profits. What they forget is that they are where they are because of the very middle class that they are trying to destroy.

I think that we need a new preamble to the constitution:

We, the corporations of the United States, in order to abolish unions, establish justice for business, insure domestic profits, provide for the common defence of business, promote corporate welfare, and secure the blessings of slavery to our fellow citizens and their posterity, do ordain and establish this Revised Constitution for the United States of America ...