Rogue Nation
Time to change the course of U.S. history
It is time for the American people to take back their nation
from irresponsible and lackluster special interest-motivated
elected officials. Impeaching top members of the Bush
administration may be in order.
By Peter Stern
09/19/06 "Baltimore
Chronicle" -- -- The
majority of Americans should be unhappy with our nation's growth
and evolution--or, if you believe it--intelligent design.
It doesn't matter if you're Republican, Democrat or Independent.
It's of no importance if you're middle class or poor, religious
or atheist. As Bob Dylan sang during the 1960's, "You don't
need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows."
On
the national, state and local levels, generations of Americans
will have to struggle to change the last decade of harm
generated by wealthy special interests and the elected officials
they have placed in their pockets.
Most Americans, individuals and families, are hurting--big time!
For just a few people to achieve vast wealth and power,
generations of our children have been placed on a back-burner.
They and their grandchildren will continue to pay the price for
our folly, which was to permit leaders to squelch or circumvent
constitutional laws to gain more profits. The American people
have been deceived. Here is a list of some of the ways:
- Starting a needless invasion and war with Iraq
- Sending our children on missions in Iraq and
Afghanistan, which were ill-conceived and absurdly planned
with no victory in sight
- Cutting taxes for the rich, while spending more than $3
trillion on war costs
- Determining many U.S. policies and actions behind
"closed doors"
- Providing false and/or misleading information and
intelligence to the American people
- Eliminating urgently needed social programs for children
and poorer citizens
- Doing little to prevent the diminishing quality of
public education
- Permitting increased health care costs despite curbing
"frivolous" medical lawsuits
- Permitting astronomical costs of fuel ---- gas, oil,
electric
- Permitting increasing costs of tuition for higher
education
- Outsourcing millions of American jobs and services
without providing new opportunities for American workers
- Lying to the people of New Orleans and not providing
needed emergency financing and services during the Katrina
fiasco in a timely manner
- Selling off American public lands and ports for special
interest gains
- Permitting only special interests to bid (or not even
have to bid) on lucrative service contracts
- Permitting the "sale" of American government to the
highest special-interest contributors
- Privatizing Medicare programs recklessly and
irresponsibly for special-interest gains
- Pushing to privatize Social Security for
special-interest gains
- Increasing voter fraud cases and countenancing lack of
voting machine integrity (with these machines manufactured
by special-interest campaign contributors)
- Cutting financing for public education during the past
decade and diverting those tax dollars to other interests
- Promoting irrational and unneeded toll road plans to
generate more profits for special interests
- Freezing gas taxes, which build and maintain roads,
and/or diverting gas taxes to other special-interest needs
- Providing loose or no enforcement of immigration laws
and policies
- Permitting illegal U.S. government spying and
wiretapping on private citizens.
The list goes on. These are criminal and/or reckless
irresponsible actions perpetrated by U.S. elected officials
against the American people. There's a Connecticut "cowboy" in
the White House who needs to be "lassoed and reined-in." The
Bush administration has failed the American people, families and
children. It has done so unabashed and without a conscience.
It is time for the American people to take back their nation
from irresponsible and lackluster special interest-motivated
elected officials. Impeaching top members of the Bush
administration may be in order.
It is time to create stronger campaign laws with enforcement
capabilities that tell billion-dollar corporations they no
longer can purchase "the best government money can buy."
America has become a rogue nation and is distrusted by the world
and many of its own citizens.
The Bush administration cannot be permitted to continue to
operate as some sort of religious zealots and blatant
imperialists. America must be managed as the nation of, by
and--foremost--
for American citizens.
Where, oh where, has America gone?
Peter Stern, of Driftwood, TX, a former university professor and public
school administrator, is a political writer published
frequently throughout the Texas community and nationwide. He
is a disabled Vietnam veteran and holds three post-graduate
degrees. He may be contacted at
pstern@austin.rr.com.
Copyright Baltimore Chronicle
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