Achilles' Heel in Our Government

I have a few things on my mind and heart this morning that I need to get out so I can move on with my day.

I love my country very much. It pains me great depths to see trouble brewing, and the trouble didn't start in just the last couple of years, nor did it start in the eight years prior. I can't say for sure when it started, but I believe it began when our founding fathers who so adamantly tried to place every single protective measure in place to insure stability and accountability but just couldn't see quite far enough ahead to cover everything.
I've never heard a president say "I am so thankful to all of you that contributed money to my campaign to get where I am today. I am especially thankful to those of you who contribute large sums of cash. I am thankful for those of you who let me buy real estate for 1/4 of the appraised value so that I can resale for huge gains. I am so thankful for the business partnerships that have been given me and the stock options. I am so thankful and I am going to let all of this persuade which direction I go. No, I won't do what's best for this country because if I did, I would ignore all of you lobbyist and all of you bankers and all of you businessmen/women and would do what's best for this country. I can be bought and so can this country, so let’s ensure that the middle man and the low man keep their heads in the sand just a little longer until it's too late for them to do anything about it and by that time we will all have our villas in the rural countryside with 12' tall compound walls and barbed wire protecting us from any danger when it all hits the fan."

John F. Kennedy during his inaugural address in 1961 said "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."

But today how many people are saying "What can I get out of my country?" How many politicians are influenced by money and greed? How many very important decisions have been made based solely off of campaign contributions and backroom business deals?

The other thing I see is people profiting off of a sideways or bad economy. Yes, now's the time to buy real estate right now. Many buy stocks when the economy is bad. This could compromise a crooked politician in itself don’t' you think?

I've never heard a president say "We will keep the economy in limbo so that we can manipulate the stock market and buy up lots of cheap real estate from all the middle class and low income class foreclosures that are going on. We will continue to take bribes from government officials of other countries and import their cheap slave labor products into this country forcing our countries factories to shut down. We will increase the size of our government and substitute government jobs for industrial jobs so that the size of the middle class will shrink and the working man's dollar will diminish. We will create more government jobs who's salaries will have to either be paid by the free market workers salary and/or borrow against the national deficit for those salaries and government programs. We will continue to increase the debt ceiling and continue to decrease or credibility as a world leader in the eyes of the world.

And lastly, we will eventually have to increase your taxes by 50% or more to make up for this lack of fiscal responsibility, but on a positive note we will add 100,000 jobs at the Internal Revenue Service to insure that we'll get that money either out of your ass or when you have to shut your business doors, out of your assets, because we think small business's just don't contribute enough money into our personal bank accounts."