by Allen Smith

Created on: October 24, 2008   Last Updated: October 27, 2008

It is 2008, and our country is now 232 years old. Its citizens are under duress facing financial problems, terrorism, war, civil strife and discord. Our courts are out of control with judges legislating from the bench. Our congress, both house and senate, are out of touch and out of control. Focusing on pettiness and strife, they discount the real work of the people and seek headlines targeting the opposition party. They are concerned ultimately with keeping their positions and making people more dependent on the government to live their lives day-to-day. The executive branch has, for the last 16 years, been headed by self aggrandizing men pre-occupied with their legacy' instead of doing the jobs they were elected to do, and all the while causing problems that they pass on to the next administration to solve.

To add insult too this injury, we now have a media complex that is far too powerful, with no checks and a vicious disregard for the truth and fairness. Claiming to be unbiased, they criticize some while celebrating others, but always the same sides, and in the same way. The media ignore glaring faults in one, but never recognizing success in the other. Furthermore, they demonstrate their lack of objectivity and clarity by being toadies for one party while they congratulate themselves for their magnanimity, calling it service to the public. The reality is that they would not know how to report the truth if it were the only thing left in this world.

The real tragedy is the gullibility of the people. In accepting the reports by the major media, they prove that old clich 'There's a sucker born every minute'. It may sound harsh, but there it is. The public is far to preoccupied with their own comforts to pay any real attention to what is happening in the halls of power in this country. Too many of us act as if we are at the mercy of those we elect, when in fact the reverse is the real story. The president and the congress work for us. Every state governor, house member and assembly member is an employee of the public constituency that elected, and in effect, employs them. So then, why do we have so many problems with our employees? Moreover, why is the media so hell bent on protecting one party, while being just as bent on destroying the second. We the people should be demanding answers.

The citizens of our founding were much hardier and demanding folk. Discord was not foreign to them, but they demanded results too their satisfaction, while trusting that those

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