A Time for Change

Political greed has become what drives the political process, and only those with money or influence have any chance of being heard or actually represented by politicians.  Lobbyists have been buying politicians votes since the 1800’s.  How can that still be legal?  Why in a country for the people, by the people, is the government putting its greed before its citizens?  The Children of Freedom should destroy political parties altogether, and focus on the person running for office and what they believe in.  Too many people in political power have agendas or underlying motives that they want to accomplish rather than focusing on representing the people.

Five leaders of this country and the Commander in Chief at the time, used reasons of personal gain to send a country to war under false pretenses; resulting in getting thousands of American men and women killed.  This was all so those few, the 1%, of Americans that control most of the money could make a profit/ stamp on history: It was all about greed.  

Americans need a person that will stand for the ideals of what America used to be!  They need more than a two party system, so they are not stuck voting for the lesser of two evils.  Maybe if five people ran for president, all of whom had an equal chance, people would vote for who they actually liked and trusted.  Most American citizens no longer feel that what they think matters or that their vote counts. Shame on those that take away what little glimmer of light and ideals they had left and replaced it with cold, hard, passionless, politics.  Politicians these days act more like movie stars and care more about how they appear than what they are actually saying to the public whom they represent.  They fight more along party lines than most five year olds do over toys.  It is more about them and what they want than what America wants.  This cannot continue.  All eight of the Republication candidates for the presidential election keep talking about what America wants and needs, but did they ever ask?  Or did they decide for everyone else?  The people need their voice to be heard.  People don’t always join politics as greedy individuals, but if they let it, politics will corrupt their soul. It is inevitable that one becomes like those they hang around, and politicians have been vultures for a very long time.

Blame it on Alabama

Karoli posts on her blog for Crooks and Liars an ethnically charged article called, In Alabama, It Goes Like This: No ID, No Water. This is about new immigration laws passed in Alabama and the water company’s interpretation of how they should be applied to the residents. It’s interesting to note that in her article, not only does she not name the company, but is very vague on all other details other than the state with which she is making a point about. Which leaves two conclusions, she doesn’t want backlash from the company, or she could be making it up to prove a larger point about immigration, and how we should treat others.   

The author is clearly targeting liberal humanitarians to enrage their moral concern about the new laws passed by the state of Alabama but her argument is vague, with biased interpretation of facts. She claims that denying water without a state issued ID card is breaking U.N. sanctions and hyperlinks to the Articles of the U.N., but nowhere in the articles does it state that because they are immigrants in this situation, that they are entitled to running water.

 Most countries that are still developing don’t have water inside their homes and Americans didn’t until the late 1800s. If you’re making money in a country illegally, then you’re not paying the proper taxes while residing in that community. So go ahead and buy the over priced gallon jugs of water at the local store to bathe and cook with and put some of that money back into the economy instead of sending it out of the country. Running water is a luxury and frankly if we had harder immigration laws this would not even be an argument to begin with because we still are not kicking the illegal immigrants out, but just taking an American citizen amenity away.