Published: May 05, 2008 07:31 pm            

DAY: Getting it off my chest

Politicians are accountable to us, not a foreign country

This old man needs to get something said before it gets too hard to swallow and I choke from it.

We here in this great country called the U.S.A. have for the last few years gone to not seeing, or hearing, and being ignorant of those things going on right in front of us by our leaders, and it’s time to say we don’t like it and we are not going to take it anymore.

Most know me as an easy person to get along with and I don’t discriminate, nor do I try to judge anyone. But, folks, there is a time when I have to let it all out and say my piece.

Recently we all received letters in the mail which told us we “might have stimulus money” coming to us. Do you know that it cost over $41 million to send that? In the last five years, we have sent almost a trillion dollars over to fight a war in Iraq that we can’t win due to the civil war that is working its way among the people there. We have allocated money for people who did not lose anything to Katrina because they did not live there.

Did you realize that we have been selling our souls to foreign countries in exchange for loans to keep our system going? Do you realize that we are leasing our land to other countries without asking our people first? And do you know that we are losing our factories to foreign countries every day due to those companies wanting cheaper labor resulting in higher profits for them? And do you realize that the companies that are still here pay their CEOs millions of dollars a year just for sitting on their backsides while the companies look for new ways to make more money?

So far, my friends, the things I have just said are only a thumbtack in a sack of nails that will be used to render this great country helpless, and that scares the pants off me.

Our leaders in Washington will soon change and what will we inherit from their leadership? The ones who right now want to lead us have come up with many promises of change, but how are they going to do that without the resources to do so? If there is no money in the cookie jar, then taxes will have to be raised to do so. Where will those taxes fall? I will tell you right now that you and I will take the biggest hit. We need to change what is going on, but we can’t sacrifice any more to do it.

Those three people who want to lead us have no idea where they will get the money needed to get our country back in shape. I sit there each evening and I hear all three telling us what they promise to do and that is all it is, a promise.

We need experience in our leaders, and working toward a common goal, and that is to get us out of debt, get us out of a war, and bring our factories back to America where they belong. We need to get all the businesses to start from the top instead of the bottom and cut down the outrageous salaries of those top dogs, which really are not needed to run that business. Come the New Year, we will have a new president and many new representatives, and we need to let them know that we will not tolerate any more of the things I have mentioned. We need to let them know that we will take them off those jobs if they don’t try to bring back prestige to those posts.

No man will be exempted from doing the best job possible, and we need to let them know that they are accountable to us and not to a foreign country.

There, I have said my piece, and you can take it to the bank or toss it in the basket. You know now how I feel, and I hope that I have made a point. Enough said.

Ray “Uncle Ray” Day of Kokomo is a weekly contributor to the Kokomo Tribune. He can be reached at uncleray@skyenet.net.

        

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