Why is it that the only time our president seems able to display passion is when he's going to make some rich fat cat pay or going to punish some oil company or some other group of politically incorrect unprotected group. He never shows any real passion for the suffering of the people, after all it must have happened at the hands of the rich.
It is a shame that we have a president who displays so little passion for suffering though displays a great deal of passion for making someone suffer.
Our president either pretends or really believes that hurting the energy industry, the banking industry, those who want to build homes, etc is somehow good for the common man. He declares that he's doing it for their good. It is as though he thinks by hurting one group you must be helping another.
This is akin to making people hate Michael Jackson or some other star for having 100's of millions of dollars as though they got it illegal or squeezed it out of someone. People like Obama never consider these people got their money because they sold a product people wanted to by and they felt the price they were paying for it was worth it.
Obama and people like him think that by taking the money of the rich it will somehow help the poor. My question is, "How does taking the money of a rich man help you?" Why is it that these people can see no difference between taking what the rich have earned and simply saying it's not ok to be rich. Is the next step to declare that you can simply never have more than a certain amount of money? Of course the only people qualified to determine just how much that would be are always the government and equally no one considers that those are the same people who are filthy rich themselves.
The Obamas and Pelosi's of the world always make sure the laws they pass don't apply to them. But then of course they shouldn't because they are the people who need all that money and power so they can make sure the rest of the greedy people aren't able to continue on with their greed.
Can't anyone but me see the hypocrisy in this? I wonder sometimes how many politicians we'd have if they were told they couldn't accept any campaign contributions until they had spent their own money down to the last 500,000 or some such number. This would insure they weren't in the rich group and also would insure that they couldn't become rich by getting in office.
I do not believe the founders of our nation ever intended public office to be a means of accumulating wealth. As a matter of fact I'm quite sure that they intended just the opposite. They put many things in place to make sure that people couldn't game the system to make money. They also made the pay of those jobs fairly low for the responsibility. They wanted to see people in office who understood what public service really meant.
Most in congress seem to view themselves as something quite special and feel that we should do the same. They almost behave as though they were royalty. They have a sense of entitlement to their positions. These are people who are probably singularly unfit to be in charge of the United States. They would make great monarch or an oligarchy in another country but they do not belong in positions of high power in the United States.
It is my sincerest hope that we will get rid of every one of them and that we will continue to do so till we find people who will represent the people instead of ruling the people. The United States is one of the few nations in the world that doesn't have rulers and was not set up to have rulers.
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