What is going on? More money to AIG, Pelosi wants a few more billion for another stimulus package, Congress wants to make sure that anything that passes has some pork for them.
Does anyone remember our history? The true patriots who believed in the ideal of this country and put the country before themselves? Sure we always had the greedy and the opportunists, but we were fortunate to have real patriots. Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Knox, not top mention all the common men and women who went forward to serve their country, not asking for any reward.
Now a days we only see that kind of commitment and dedication in the men and women of our military. Our politicians are a bunch of crooks. They had to add on billions in pork before they would vote for the bail out bill. As long as their trough is full, they could care less about the rest of us.
It is evident that Congress has no sense of what is happening. If they did, they would give up their fancy medical coverage and take a policy like the rest of working America, with deductibles and restrictions. If they cared, they would start brown bagging it at lunch time and close their fancy restaurant with the agreeable prices for members of Congress. If Congress cared they would start prosecuting the CEO's and banks who brought on this crisis, rather than kissing their butts.
Let's face it, Congress no longer represents the people, they represent whoever will take care of them best.
Vote out the incumbents. Invite those who love and want to serve with no reward to come and lead us during these coming years of crisis. The time for change is now. Let's start with a whole new face on Capital Hill.
Its Common sense.
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Thursday, October 9, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
The selling of America
This has been the month of bailouts. First Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Yesterday it was AIG.
Are you like me and wonder where the billions are coming from to pay for these buyouts?
Have we actually paid so much in taxes that our President and Congress can not only pay the monthly billion + to run the war in Iraq, but have billions left over to handle buyouts for financial institutions?
Out of curiosity I went hunting to find out where the money is coming from. I believed for a long time that the USA has been borrowing money from China and that was the reason President Bush went to the Olympics, rather than stay in the White House and protest China's record on human rights violations.
I found the following on a web site of the Treasury Department.
www.ustreas.gov/tic/mfh.txt
If you access the web site you will be able to see the billions of dollars foreign governments are holding in US Treasury bonds. I will be the first to admit that I do not know all the laws and regulations that are in place when someone buys a Treasury Bond. But I would certainly like to know what happens if one of these countries decides to cash in.
Many Americans worry about the problem of illegal aliens within our borders, and we will talk about that at a later time, but maybe an even bigger concern is how our "leaders" are selling out our country to foreign investors.
I thought we had to fear the foreign investors who were buying up companies and real estate in the USA. This morning when I heard that Barclay Bank in England had bought at least part of Lehman Brothers I thought "here we go again." But until I found the report above I never realized just how much of our country's finances are actually held by by foreign countries.
Regrettably I have no solution, maybe its too late and I should just let fate play out its hand.
But, I am hopeful that maybe all we Americans need is a wake up call to the plight we are headed and we will get off our apathetic butts and tell the boys and girls in DC that enough is enough.
We have to run our households with a balanced budget or lose everything to creditors, its time the President and Congress got the budget balanced so we do not lose the country to our foreign creditors and have to accept all the changes that would come from that.
Let's force the Washington gang to be responsible. Write your senators and congress person. Tell them they better start acting responsibly or come next election they'll be in the unemployment line.
We the people need to be heard, and we better do it before its too late.
Are you like me and wonder where the billions are coming from to pay for these buyouts?
Have we actually paid so much in taxes that our President and Congress can not only pay the monthly billion + to run the war in Iraq, but have billions left over to handle buyouts for financial institutions?
Out of curiosity I went hunting to find out where the money is coming from. I believed for a long time that the USA has been borrowing money from China and that was the reason President Bush went to the Olympics, rather than stay in the White House and protest China's record on human rights violations.
I found the following on a web site of the Treasury Department.
www.ustreas.gov/tic/mfh.txt
If you access the web site you will be able to see the billions of dollars foreign governments are holding in US Treasury bonds. I will be the first to admit that I do not know all the laws and regulations that are in place when someone buys a Treasury Bond. But I would certainly like to know what happens if one of these countries decides to cash in.
Many Americans worry about the problem of illegal aliens within our borders, and we will talk about that at a later time, but maybe an even bigger concern is how our "leaders" are selling out our country to foreign investors.
I thought we had to fear the foreign investors who were buying up companies and real estate in the USA. This morning when I heard that Barclay Bank in England had bought at least part of Lehman Brothers I thought "here we go again." But until I found the report above I never realized just how much of our country's finances are actually held by by foreign countries.
Regrettably I have no solution, maybe its too late and I should just let fate play out its hand.
But, I am hopeful that maybe all we Americans need is a wake up call to the plight we are headed and we will get off our apathetic butts and tell the boys and girls in DC that enough is enough.
We have to run our households with a balanced budget or lose everything to creditors, its time the President and Congress got the budget balanced so we do not lose the country to our foreign creditors and have to accept all the changes that would come from that.
Let's force the Washington gang to be responsible. Write your senators and congress person. Tell them they better start acting responsibly or come next election they'll be in the unemployment line.
We the people need to be heard, and we better do it before its too late.
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