Turning a Corner or a Minor Correction?

While government bailed out Bank of America, Citigroup, AIG, Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the Auto Industry and enacted the troubled asset (TARP) program with almost $2 Trillion of our money, almost 3 Million people lost their homes. All this in late 2008 and all of 2009. That lose went to foreclosure or bank repossessions, that’s almost 8000 per day.

Last year, Wall Street has awarded itself over $20 Billion in bonuses, an average of $123,000 on top of their salary.

Right now about 17 Million people are jobless, Millions more are working part time when they need to be working full time. And, there are millions who are extremely underemployed, working at lesser jobs to make ends meet. There are Millions asking, “Would you like fries with that,” when they should be in technical positions that no longer exist.

There are about 40 lobbyists per elected member of the Legislative Branch of Government. A few, but very few, are working in your interest. Most are funded by big . . . WHATEVER! Big Pharma, Big Banking, Big Insurance, Big Health Care, Big Money that are trying to influence how their business can get away with more of your money while having to comply with the RULES less. Your protection is not what they are lobbying about. Those lobbyists are seeking protection for their sponsors, from you. All this so that you can’t sue them or so that they no longer have to tell you the WHOLE truth when selling you whatever they have.

It is a really silly system when to get things done you have to have a 60% majority and yet one Senator can stop unemployment and Medicare benefits from being paid to Millions. While this is going on, the U. S. Supreme Court decided that corporations now have a Constitutional right to interfere with elections by pouring money into races. Next thing we know, Corporations will be able to marry and have children, or start their own religion in order to escape taxes.

Our Department of Justice recently chose to not prosecute its own lawyers who illegally authorized torture, while the Pentagon chose to prosecute Navy SEALS for merely punching an Iraqi suspect.

Whose assets are being protected when the U.S. maintains 700 military bases worldwide and another 6000 in the U.S. and its territories. Whose assets are being protected when our young people join the military to protect the U.S. and get killed and maimed in elective wars and are used as the World’s Police.

The U.S does half of the military spending in the World.

Who’s assets are being protected when Private Companies and the U.S. Government put hidden cameras into private places, conduct phone intercepts, access personal computers, read and record personal and private emails, compile and collect records from credit card purchases, computer views and travel agendas.

Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that, “ . . . a time comes when silence is betrayal.” At that time he condemned the Viet Nam War and the system that created it and many more injustices that were clearly apparent. He stated, “We, as a Nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a ‘Thing Oriented’ society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property right are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”

The tea party people think that the Republican Party has sold them out to big business. The Far Left thinks the Democrats have sold us all out to big business. I think we all need to take a closer look at what we have become. Is it time for another revolution? Has the time come?

Sometimes, on a journey from here to there, we need to correct our steering. Sometimes that correction only needs a small twist of the steering wheel, but sometime we need to turn a corner.

I believe the time has come at least to consider a glance at the map and check to see if a correction isn’t required in order to get where we are going.