|
We get to pick three?
I could give hundreds, but they can all be summed up in one choice-
The ever increasing size of our federal Government.
It is now so massive it operates with a will all its own, completely seperated from the desires of "we the people." It is bleeding its citizens dry and running rip-shod over the worlds economy. It has no foresight beyond the next election. Now, more than ever before, it is concentrating the power in the hands of a few while taking rights and priveleges away from us at an ever increase pace. It has become so opaque, that even those on the inside do not know what goes on down the hall or in the next office. While it is itself totally without direction, it dares to direct its citizens. It squanders our will, our name and our resources and those of others who would be our friends. Instead of assuming our rightful place at the front of all nations, protecting the downtrodden and leading the mislead, it has become the voice of injustice and selfishness.
No, come to think of it, my #1 is far more frightening -
It is that we have allowed this to happen and it is now beyond our ever regaining control.
__________________
"The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others. " - Theodore Roosevelt
|