For most Americans, these past seven or eight years have been nothing short of devastating. Since the global financial crisis starting in 2007, most people have been hurting financially. Stress levels are at all-time highs. You see it whenever you drive down Main Street, where some of your favorite stores and restaurants are boarded up. The economic life once teeming in our cities and inside our shopping malls has been extinguished by the sour economy, choked out by politicians who think they have a right to play with peoples’ lives for their personal benefit.
First, the Wall Street guys got stung, but the government bailed them out, and now they are doing better than ever. They helped cause much of the grief, but only suffered temporary personal setbacks.
As for the political class, the idiotic men and women who blindly set us down this course just keep lying to the people, and for some reason the masses keep buying their bull and putting the same fools back in the same offices. We are getting the government we are voting for but not the greatness America deserves.
You want to see who took us down the primrose path to poverty? I invite you independent voters and open-minded thinkers to watch and see who used race-baiting and accusations that went beyond any semblance of common sense and helped to grind our economy to a halt for nearly a decade.
Watch a few minutes of the House committee hearings on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from 2004. It is a major eye opener.
(To be fair, I don’t know who put this montage together. The video is poorly edited and undoubtedly has a bias. However, those in question make clear, probably false and undeniably foolish statements that affected nearly every Americans life.)
So, what happened to the morons who fought against doing anything to stop the collapse, who resisted every effort to take a hard look inside Freddie and Fannie?
Let’s see:
Rep. Gregory Meeks, New York Democrat, still in office.
Rep. Maxine Waters, California Democrat, still in office.
Rep. Lacy Clay, Missouri Democrat, still in office.
Rep. Barney Frank, Massachusetts Democrat, retired from office.
The list is much longer; of course, these are just a few people exposing themselves in the above-mentioned video.
Why bring this up now?
Millions upon millions of Americans are suffering, damaged by the corruption, hubris and incompetence of our elected leaders. They’re unemployed or underemployed, and underpaid and overworked — all while the elite class is living large.
We have far too many people, such as the infamous “low-information voters,” putting these unqualified leaders in positions of power, all for a promise of a better day. That day is not coming if we don’t put new life and new ideas into the halls of Congress, state capitols and city halls.
The old big government solutions foisted upon us by the Democratic Party of the New Deal and the Great Society sounded good, but they just didn’t work! How many decades of effort and trillions of dollars need to be wasted to learn from these mistakes?
I implore voters struggling to make wise choices in the next election to watch this video. And take a look at cities and states run by Democrats for decades. Take a good look at the financial solvency of California, Illinois or Detroit, the poor performance of our schools and school boards, and the egregious abuses by government employees unions. Check out the work ethic of the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) when you get on a plane, or your local motor vehicle agency when you’ve lost your drivers’ license. These are all entities that generally owe their allegiance to Big Government or the Democratic Party.
It is past time those allegiances shift back to the American people. It’s time for government to stop thinking about what is best for pressure groups, special interests and politicians, and do what is best for our country.
I’m not sure how many more elections our republic can take if we keep voting for people who shouldn’t be anywhere near our halls of power — other than maybe taking a guided tour on a family visit to Washington. And even then, I’d suggest checking their pockets as they leave the gift shops.
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