Guilty

We live in extremely turbulent economic times, where plenty of blame is being thrown this way and that in an effort to avoid culpability. The politicians blame the banks; the banks blame the politicians, who turn around and blame Wall Street, who blame the politicians, who then blame the oil companies, who are pretty much everybody’s punching bags. No it’s the enormous price of healthcare because of those greedy insurance companies, it’s the special interest groups, the EPA with out of control regulations, no it’s definitely the politicians, it’s the Republicans, no it’s the Democrats, it has to be the Media. Guess who it really is? Guess who the truly guilty party is in this entire mess of payoffs, oh I’m sorry I meant “campaign donations”, and corruption? Guess who stood back and watched the Federal Government get bought off by every Special Interest under the sun, from ACORN to the Environmental Lobby to the oil companies to the Health Insurance Industry to the banks on Wall Street? Have you figured it out? You look at them in the mirror each and every morning.


We are the guilty parties in the equation because we have sat back and watched it happen, re-electing the same corrupt politicians over and over again and expecting things to get better, more honest. It doesn’t matter what side of the aisle they stand on because, but for a few honest men and women, they are all either crooked or enablers to this system of thieves. They are in collusion with one another while blaming each other in the public domain, just take a look at how much Goldman Sachs gave to Barak Obama $994,795 during the 2008 election, which was 2nd to the University of California at $1,591,395. Then they pay $6 billion dollars in taxes in 2007, get a $10 billion dollar bailout, and shift their assets overseas so they end up paying only $14 million in taxes in 2008. Our politicians make the laws that make this possible, never mind that Goldman Sachs is set to make billions in the Chicago Climate Exchange if the Cap-and-Trade legislation passes. Republicans and Democrats, all guilty, all looking the other way, and all put there by us.

The American people as a whole have an extreme case of ignorance. Ask any random person on the street and they couldn’t name the Supreme Court Justices, they wouldn’t be able to accurately say what legislations were currently under consideration in Congress, or name the purpose of the 10th Amendment to the Constitution (or any for that matter). We are uneducated when it comes to the operations of our own government because we fail to see how it is our responsibility to remain educated. As long as we remain so we live our lives while ignoring whatever unethical plan or deal politicians are coming up with this week. The American people then buy every line fed to us during the election cycles, and vote in whoever sounds better because we fail to truly consider what is at stake for us and our children.

We only start paying attention when something bad happens, for instance the oil spill in the Gulf. It is awfully hard to plug a hole that is a mile under the water, so why would we even drill for oil that far out? Well they don’t talk about all the oil America has on land that we are restricted from drilling for or the fact that the platform was out that far because restriction prevent them from drilling closer to shore, or that the federal regulators were not completing the required inspections of the rig. A horrible accident happens in the worst location and we blame whoever is politically convenient because some politicians and the media are good and spinning words. We fail to ask what happened that made this disaster possible in this location. And we ask ourselves how the Germans people didn’t know about the genocide being perpetrated by the Nazi’s, or how the Japanese people could be convinced that Americans bombed Pearl Harbor ourselves. We are as guilty as them in our own ignorance and things are only going to get worse in this country if we fail to wake up and accept our responsibility for what is happening in it.