Why have I titled my blog ‘American Hostage’? Because I feel as though I am being held hostage by the American government.
Neither political party (of the big 2) represent me. None of the candidates hold my values and speak for me. For that matter neither do my Senators or Representatives. Politicians have made me feel marginalized and an impediment to their own personal or party goals.
Being only one person, and not wanting to fall in lock-step with the two main stream political parties, I have no voice in my government. Okay, I have a voice but only in as much as they are willing listen and act on the wishes of a single constituent. And we all know how well that works.
I have not been a political person by nature. I was never politically active growing up. It was not until the Senate and then the House passed H.R. 1424: Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 that I started to get motivated to become personally active. This is the $700 billion dollar Wall Street bailout bill that was rushed through Congress. You know, the one with $150 billion in added Pork Sweeteners. Yeah, that one. Thats why I am upset with my government and the two political parties.
This quote brings it all home.
Senator Johnny Isakson was asked by 11Alive (Atlanta Tv. ), “Do you think it was fair to throw in many of these amendments and what is called pork to get this measure through?”
“The tax extenders had already passed the House, already passed the Senate with certain differences,” said Isakson. “Now I’m as frustrated as anybody with the add-ons of wooden arrow shafts for Oregon, and the add-on in terms of rum for Puerto Rico, but beyond that everything else was not an add-on. It had been voted on — there were tax extenders, many of them very beneficial to folks in Georgia.” (Emphasis mine.)
Oh yeah… “It had been voted on”. If, good Senator, it had already been voted on, why were these pork add ons not already law? Its easy. They were not passed in both the House and Senate OR were vetoed by the President. How dare you use the pretense of frustration over someone else’s pork when you are able to get your own? Here we are, in an Economic Emergency and you, and your friends, decide to add more pork to the barrel. Well done!
In the past I have done the lock step march. I’ve voted the party line at elections. I have also voted who I felt was the best for the position. From this point on I will vote what is best for my country. If you are a sheep or lemming and prefer to be lead around by the nose, please continue to do so. It makes it easy for those entrenched in power to remain there.
I am an American Hostage.
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