Cosmic Irony

What’s going on here? Pipes exploding, bridges collapsing and miners trapped 1500 feet below the earth’s surface. Behind each disaster has been the haunting chill that these could have been prevented had we improved our infrastructure. Behind the Minnesota bridge was a Governor hell bent on getting re-elected on a low-tax ticket. With the middle class being raped by the tax system, of course he was elected, but the voters didn’t know what it would cost them.

The problem isn’t going to be solved by raising taxes on the median income, like Bush has been doing the last seven years. Instead, taxes should be raised on the insane millionaires making more than I would make in a lifetime at my current rate. Does it make sense that millionaires pay less taxes than a person making $8 per hour? And then our infrastructure fails and we see our roads and bridges fall victim to the “rob from the poor, give to the rich” scheme that the neocons have been playing for years.

How do these people stay in power? Well, for one they run on a family values ticket, of all things. They spout American family values and Christian principles until they are blue in the face while at the same time destroying the middle class, ruining the country, making immense amounts of money and leading a war that continues to kill our soldiers. The ones that aren’t killed get rammed up the ass again as the neocons cut VA benefits and veto bills that would improve their health care after they return from fighting.

Another way they have stayed at the top is through the clever use of fear. You get enough gun toting red necks afraid of a dark-skinned minority and you can pretty much do anything. Instead of demanding that our military get out of Iraq and hunt for terrorists, the voters have fallen for the theory that leaving Iraq would bring the war to the US. Instead of realizing that our president ignored intelligence regarding 9/11, they vote for the people that say they will keep them safe with wire-tappings and death of Habaeus Corpus.

Instead of spending money on education, health-care for children, and our roads that are collapsing before our eyes, the neocons are focusing the attention on a war we never should have fought in a country we have thrown into chaos.

These people should be charged. They are not running the country, they are running the show. That is not how a government should treat it’s people. After all, it is only the people that can come into an agreement to be governed. Thom Paine had that right. So in the race for the 2008 election, you can bet that I will be writing my damnedest to get the word out to the people that enough is enough. Whether registered Republican or Democrat, things need to change. These neocons are not representing the will of the country, which is more and more progressive. Nor are they representing the core values of the everyday Republicans. America can unite against this scourge.