What Can We Trust In?
This cartoon sums up my feelings on the Minnesota bridge collapse. It's a sad world, when we can't trust our governments; local, state, nor federal to show even the most basic sense of responsibility in keeping us safe. Put simply, the people who died in the bridge collapse, were killed because their lives weren't valued a priority when it came time to crunch out a budget. Our elected officials choose to gamble every day with all of our lives, betting time and again that, our bridges, roads etc. will hold up fine for another year or two or twenty. We hear on a weekly basis how scared and worried we should be about the threat of terrorism, but personally I think we have a lot more to fear from the very people we put in charge of keeping us safe.
posted by Leo at 12:40 PM
19 Comments:
I was just at mentarch site and he was talking about our leaders. I cannot for the life of me figure out why we constantly elect the same type of people all the time to run this country for us.
They all seem to be for the rich, lobbyist and themselves. It's bad that our infrastructure has gone to waste because our officials have wasted a lot of our tax dollars on what they assumed was important to them and the people they truly represent.
Once AGAIN you hit the nail on the head!!! I love your site I know your busy but damn, we need you to blog! : - )
As for our "officials" I don't trust any of them! I was just waiting when this happened for Fuhrer to come out and say it was the terrorist. It was the terrorist alright, the very one's we have HERE claiming to "protect and serve" the American people!!!! These Bastards don't care about anything other than themselves. They have no value for human life and anyone that questions that has nothing more to do than to look at the number of people killed in Iraq!! I think I saw yesterday that we are up to 3,679 soldiers killed that's not counting the number of civilians dead. So to me if this corrupt bunch of Bastards can kill THAT many people and be ok with it than what are a few 100 or so on a bridge right? Sick & absolutely DISGUSTING!!! I can only hope they all rot in HELL soon!!!!
But look on the bright side; there are still some things we can trust.
We have the biggest and most advanced weapons of anybody on Earth. Our god can beat up everybody else's god. And if any country has the gall to stand up to one of our corporations, we'll invade their sorry asses.
These are things you can count on.
Who Hijacked Our Country
Just wanted to pop in and say hello, I've been horrible about keeping up with blogs lately. I hope that everything is going well with you!
Hugs,
Jane
Thanks for the comments everyone! I'm sorry I've been so bad about keeping up this blog lately. I've just been busy and a bit burned out. I'll try to get back on track soon. I hope all of you are doing real well!
The people on the bridge, the miners in Utah, they're all apparently just "collateral damage" for the no-new-taxes crowd.
Hey, I understand about the burnout - happens to everyone. Not to worry. :)
i'm just acrossing ur blog, hoping ur are doing well, nice weekend!
After all the time that has passed, things can get distorted and out of perspective. So on a day like this, 6 years to the day of the horrific attacks against the US, we need reminders. We should watch videos like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsF-RiMzGpk
It puts things into the proper perspective.
In the end it is our fault. WE THE PEOPLE get distracted too easily from the basic problems. Things will not change until we have a series of events that cause a general fear. Our infrastructures are being sold and run until they collapse. Little will happen we come to a consensus that perhaps we have to invest in our own future...
Um, I know I said earlier not to worry about taking a break from blogging and all, but ...
We miss you !!!!
Candace, thanks so much. I miss all of you guys, my favorite bloggers too, but my heart just hasn't been into writing/or keeping up lately. I'm sure I will be reinspired soon. Meanwhile take care everyone, and keep the torch burning!
I've been gone for a week and I'm back and see that you haven't posted.
I hope your heart and mind comes back to this fight and allow us readers of your post to read what's on your mind about this country and what ever you might blog about.
I'll check back with you later and you just take your time and come on back when you feel the need.
Just checking in to say I hope all is well.
Hey girl, what happened to ya???
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Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
Great blog, great information
rob
There is all the money in the world for Bush's Iraq war -- $12 billion a month.
Yet when it comes to spending Federal dollars on the infrastructure in the USA to keep the American people safe, there's never any money and if you ask, the guvmint throws its hands in the air and says some variation of "We can't do that. It's too expensive."
When did taking care of the USA and the American people become such a radical notion?
Love him? Hate him? How do YOU feel about our soon to be former President? Take part in a chance to immortalize your views in book form by visiting http://goodbyegeorgew.com/ and letting your opinion be read!
Check out the following article about http://goodbyegeorgew.com/:
GOODBYE GEORGE W. WEBSITE STARTS NEW MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRACY
With the whole world watching the Obama transition kick in it’s easy to forget about the outgoing warmongerer-in-chief who rode to political power on his daddy’s coat-tails. Without so much as winning the popular vote the first time around George W. Bush took the White House in 2000. In 2004 he stayed the course for a second term thanks to classic Klan-style intimidation tactics in battleground states that squeaked the Bush /Cheney team back in for a total eight years on Pennsylvania Avenue. Surprisingly enough some semblance of Planet Earth survived and in retrospect we will miss the factual misstatements and grammatical blunders of the Presidential Poster boy for “No Child Left Behind” education.
Before he leaves office U.S. citizens and people form around the world are finally getting their chance to tell President Bush what they think. The new website www.goodbyegeorgew.com is building the democracy that the Bush Administration has worked so hard to erode. While welcoming sarcasm it is providing a general forum to write to the soon-to-be-unemployed President and give him your candid opinion by speaking out.
Letters are actively being sought to put the democracy and free speech back into America despite the hard work of the Homeland security team to eradicate it forever.
Of course this Goodbye George W. site comes replete with great political memorabilia on sale for the “historical” collectors. But what caught my attention is that the founder, Kate Wheeler, who I recently spoke with, is not making a hard sell on her goods but is more interested in putting the participation back into democracy and American politics.
This farewell to Bush will later be published into an e-book so anyone leaving their comments will be a part of this historic catharsis and collector’s item in itself.
I hope that the incoming President will get a hint from this as well and seek his own avenues to stay in touch with the opinion of the people that he was elected to represent. Once in office it wouldn’t be a shock if he gives his ears principally to the likes of Citigroup and J.P. Morgan, who were among the 10 biggest donors to the Obama campaign, (despite his “no strings attached campaign” propaganda).
The real change America needs is a White House and Government that listen to the people and www.goodbyegeorgew.com is a step in the right direction. It gives ordinary space for people to send our opinions to Washington. Of course, in this case, we’re giving our opinion to the man who is packing his bags (hallelujah), but it’s a good start on bringing back real democracy.
Anyone interested in setting a new course for democracy in this country should click over to this website and write their own heartfelt send off to the man who stole the presidency and steered a course into the diplomatic dark ages.
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