dacjohns wrote: I spent over 20 years serving this country. I consider myself a conservative but I am ashamed at what this nation has done in the name of defense.
dac, I want to thank you whole heartedly for your service to our country. I feel that those who serve are all heros. Thank You
I feel our country, and also the world, are at a cross roads and the decisions that are made now will effect the relationship between us all for the next hundred years (or more). I first want to state that I am not a Republican or Democrat, I am conservative in my beliefs and actions and I try to live a moral life (as best as I can).
I see many things happening in recient times that do not pass my smell test on morality. I have been aware of the politics of our nation for many years. I am in my 50s and started being consious of the decisions that were being made by our government back in the 80s, under Reagan. I have watched the morals of our government officials slip further away from what I feel are acceptable in a public official and what is expected constitutionally. They have no problem commiting adultary in the oval office, they have no problem conducting a war by sending many contracts for the support functions to the companies of cronies, I saw one president basically ignore attacks on US interests and military assets over seas and at home which lead to the 9-11 attack on our twin towers. The next president went to war over those 9-11 attack on our homeland. Unfortunately, he didn't place the majority of our military attention on those who attacked us! He decided to nation build instead. What a waste! I have seen Congressmen and Senators from BOTH sides of the aisle embroiled in sex scandles, tax scandles, vote selling, pay to play and more yet very little, if anything is done. We currently have several Senators and Congressmen under scrutany for tax issues and unfairly benifiting from their position from those that they are regulating. Our current mess can be laid at the doorstep of the Congress and the laws that they have passed and the lack of oversight afterward. There will always be those that will be greedy in business and there needs to be some regulation and oversight to keep that greed from hurting the general population. The greed has now infested our Congress and other areas of the government. We now have a situation where the foxes are now watching the hen house.
I am not willing to cut Obama any slack either. I know that he has been in office only a little over 50 days but anyone that has been able to spend that much money and break that many promises in that short a time will not get a pass from me. He has put more foxes in charge of the hen house by placing Geitner in charge of the Fed and allowing many lobbiests in his administration. During the campaign, he said that lobbiests would not be allowed to hold positions in his administration yet now he feels that a special dispensation is all that is needed to erase their lobbying pasts. He has submitted the names of several tax cheats to key positions within his administration. Thank heavens most of them removed their names from review, once the scrutiny was on them. If only Geitner had done the same. Congress has given out billions and trillions of dollars without ever reading the bills. When
We, The People, get irate about some of this money being given as bonuses to those who have gotten our economy in such a mess, some in Congress and the Administration start pointing the finger at each other to deflect blame. Congress then enacts a law to tax, Ex pos Facto the money back into the US coffers. This is not legal either.
I am not partisan, I am fed up with the lot of them! It is time for all of them to go back under the rock that they crawled out from under and STOP TRAMPLEING THE CONSTITUTION! We, the People need to not take sides, but to see that both sides are part of the same coin and that coin is counterfit.
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