There are some who think the American attention span will not last forty- five seconds much less forty-five days. By then all will be forgotten and well go back to our Blackberries and iTunes. Our ports will go on to be managed by foreign entities because we must indulge the friends we do have. Whoa! This administration has seen to it that America has no friends, certainly none who have ties to sworn enemies who hate our guts. Tax cuts for the rich will be made permanent by the corpocracy because its good for business. What about whats good for the people? Funding for health care, veterans benefits and education is being cut drastically. The coming hurricane season is predicted to be very bad. The Gulf Coast, God forbid, could suffer another disaster. Show us the money to rebuild and protect it. Show us the money for our damaged veterans. Will Rogers (1879-1935) was a cowboy from Oklahoma who became Americas most beloved humorist. Not since Mark Twain had the country seen or heard such criticism in the form of witticism. While expertly twirling his rope, Rogers would stand in front of an audience and, in his western manner, make people laugh at his insightful jabs at politics and government. Here are two of his quotes. And remember, this was back in the 1920s. Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House? On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. We can go back a century earlier in our history, to Abraham Lincoln who said: You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time. But you cant fool all of the people all of the time. Yeah, right. Except for the formal manner in which people wrote and spoke in those days, the following Abraham Lincoln quote could come right out of todays blogs. I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. Corporations have been enthroned Scary isnt it? But are the majority of Americans so fearful today; so complacent they will allow their precious democracy and taken-for-granted freedoms to go down the rabbit hole? My father fought in one war, my brother in another. Today our young men and women are dying for those same freedoms. Many are suffering unimaginable wounds to body and soul, scars that will be with them the rest of their lives. They do their duty and they dont complain. Its time we on the home front do our duty, speak out, make our voices heard above the din of politics and business and the corpocracy that has deceived and failed us. What does it take for we the people to rise up and end this never-ending nightmare? Simplicity-Courage-Humor-Soul |
