Thursday, June 22, 2006

The Real Assault on the Nuclear Family

How many times in the past year have you seen news stories depicting how the U.S. Congress promoted war, but failed to meet the basic needs of the average American citizen by ignoring the critical issues affecting the everday home? For example: Affordable Health Care plans--has anything been done? Another--ensuring affordable housing for ALL Americans--NOT just for the wealthiest. Still another--Jobs--yes -- JOBS--protecting not only them by keeping them in the States, but making sure that people are paid a minimum decent wage that keeps up with the cost of living in these expensive United States. Another: protecting retirement and pension plans, instead of sucking them dry to pay the top executives of companies. How about really proving to Americans (yes, we are NOT dumb or naive) WHY the gasoline prices increased in 8 years from 87 cents per gallon of 87 octane to over $3.00 per gallon--and we live in the same world as then, while the retired head of a major oil company is receiving 400 MILLION DOLLARS as his retirement package????? Where this writer lives her utility companies are raising their rates between 38 percent and 72 percent!!! And yet, wages are NOT increasing--of course--the U.S. Congress blessed itself again by giving themselve ANOTHER annual salary raise, while voting down any increase of the minimum wage! Too many American families have paid huge sacrifices for the blunders, goofs, failures and bad decisions that the U.S. Federal Government has made in the past 10 years (Clinton included!) It's time that we step up, vote into office people that DO care, that DON'T want lobbyist payments, that WILL represent their constituency, and WILL MAKE sure that legal Americans out of work get first dibs on ANY open job available instead of rewarding illegal immigrant behavior. Our own children, who are in high school or college, and those of us who have experienced hard financial times, deserve even the supposed jobs that the current president says we will not do---This country was built by Americans, for Americans, and through Americans doing these jobs! It is shameful that greed runs the U.S. Government, not the Constitution. It is wrong that the value of money has replaced the value of law, and it is terrible that liberty/fair justice is affordable by the filthy rich, while the average low-to-middle class American citizen (the majority of this country) cannot get attorneys, or get social services assistance, or get training for jobs. Instead of a fair system "based" on the U.S. Constitution, it is now based on who you know, who likes you, and even by what connections you have. This is NOT the America that is in the history book--It has become the Home of the Illegal and the Land of the Loophole. What a travesty of justice!