No good choices

To my dear daughter Renae,

 

Well, there are days when I say the same thing.  "Throw the bums out".  And then I think, "Hey, that's how we got them bums in the first place.  We threw the last batch out". 

In fact, we have two pretty decent U.S. Senators, and Norm Dicks, despite his love of the defense contractors, has held the line and battled for the working folks.  Bernie Sanders of Vermont is a champion for All American Working/Middle Class people. 

But there are some rotten apples on both sides of the aisle in congress.  I think that until we remove the control that the corporations now have, we will continue to have our needs ignored in favor of theirs. 

The corporations are not people friendly.  Their bottom line, and the only reason they exist, is to make a profit...at all costs. 

They are now seen by our Supreme Court as First Class Citizens.  They have all the rights and privileges of you and me, and more.  They have the billions of dollars to pump into any election they wish to influence.  They have first access into any office in congress including the White House and the Supreme Court.  The cannot be tried and sent to prison when they violate the law, they simply pay a few millions or even billions and go about their business. 

The International Corporations have become more powerful than our government.  This is why we are spending our money to fight wars that the corporations have dubbed War on Terror.  As if any nation as small as Iran could mount a serious attack on us.  We invaded Iraq claiming that they had weapons of mass destruction...only to find out that George Bush and his corporate buddies had lied to us.  And none of them have ever been taken to court over that.  In fact, Obama...also a corporate patsy...said he would not consider bringing any charges against Bush and his team members.  Of course not!  Obama would not want to be held accountable for some of the stuff he is doing right now. 

But until we force the Supreme Court to reverse their decision regarding the first class status of corporations, and until corporations are once again controlled by the government instead of the other way around, only then can we begin to force politicians to care about our needs.  As long as the money is tucked into their pockets, we will be ignored. 

Mitt, Rick, Ron, Newt, Barack...all of them are owned by the millions of dollars that are pumped into their election campaigns.  And remember, many of these huge corporations pump money into all of their campaigns because they can afford to do it, and they will have a strong control over the winner, whoever it is. 

The America we grew up in has become the American Empire, and is fast becoming an International Corporate Empire.  Fighting over whether we have Mitt or Barak in the White House is like spitting into a hurricane.  I strongly support the Occupy Wall Street movement.  It may become the mass resistance against Corporate control that will bring America back to the people. 

 

Dad