The Price of Freedom

I have become sickened by the rhetoric and finger pointing by our nations elected leaders. I understand that it is all posturing and that the ones who “look” the best are the winners in the next election. Unfortunately, that is all it comes down to; the next election. This topic has been covered by a myriad of people and will continue to be fodder for the cannon for years to come but I am so disgusted that I it has finally made my hit list. What is even more pathetic is that we continue to re-elect people that vote against our interests in hopes that we will get a different outcome. Somewhere in there is the definition of schizophrenia. This is one of the big issues with a constitutional republic; it allows people who are good for nothing except campaigning for election and looking good to govern our country. What is wrong with this picture?

We are no longer looking for people to lead our nation. We are spending our time choosing people that give the appearance that they are providing handouts, using other people’s money, to people they believe are more needy. What we find is that they (our elected officials) continue to enrich themselves, (their pension plan, medical plan, not attached to social security, and on and on and on) at the expense of the nation they are elected to serve. For the Washington elected, it is a matter of how much they can steal from American citizens before we get fed up. So far, they have managed to keep us on the path to Hell and make us relish the trip. Fortunately, not all of us are fooled by that warm feeling. We know that is similar to the illusion of warmth you get after you pee our pants. It is a short lived experience followed by a feeling of wet cold chaffing. Not that I know from experience. I had on a wet bathing suit yesterday and got a taste of that feeling.

So what do we do to rectify this illusion that our government is there for our protection? A government that had a vested interest in American interest would address issues as they come up and fix or attempt to fix them. That seemed to be the nature of things in the late 60’s and early 70’s. We had Lyndon Johnson guiding the nation and attempting to fix social problems through government sponsored programs. We have found that these programs did not fix the problems. It band aided them and gave the appearance of help but did nothing to get to the heart of the problem. There is still hunger and poverty in the US but at least an attempt was made (although it creates bigger issues in its monumental failure). Now we have expensive programs that need to be revamped and anyone attempting to fix them is branded as someone who wants to keep the poor and down trodden down. Unfortunately, there are still people in office in Washington that assisted in putting those programs in place. Talk about embedded in the problem. We need a solution to our nation’s legacy of electing those who are pleasing and get back to electing those who want to lead. You end up with people who give the appearance of leadership by their words but have forgotten that actions are what truly matter.

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Cobb