We need a Revolution.

Ben Franklin was one of the greatest inventors.  What would he invent right now…if he lived today?  I think the answer would be a new government. 

I bet our fore fathers are turning over in their graves right now watching in disbelief the despair of our great nation.  Everything they worked so hard to bring to fruition.  What happened to of the people, by the people, for the people?

Franklin gave us electricity.  I doubt he would have waited 200 years to harness the energy from the sun and wind.  I’m sure he would have scoffed at the idea of using petroleum for every thing under the sun.  We’re  importing 5,517,000 barrels of crude oil per day from OPEC.  At $95 per barrel, that’s over $524 million PER DAY  handed over to OPEC.  We’re so oil insane that we’re willing to give sworn enemies billions of dollars for it. 

And what would our fore fathers had thought if colonial businesses outsourced their work to other countries like France or England?  It wouldn’t have happened!  Would they have borrowed so much money from hostile countries that it would be generations before it were paid back.  I think not.

And we’re just spending spending spending.  Every day we find something else to spend a couple billion on or give a couple billion too. Foreign ‘investors’ own over 5 TRILLION DOLLARS in US Debt.  Is that insane or what?  China owns the most of our debt.  What the heck would happen if they ‘called it in’?

Our government is now taking control over Mega Corporations.  Bailing them out of obscene amounts of debt.  Which was incurred, by the way, partly from the same government failing to make any effort to regulate those markets.  Duh.

And where is the logic that a failing company can let their employees pension go down the toilet while their CEO’s collect millions in bonuses. 

Then there’s foreign aid.  We help everyone.  Take Saudi Arabia for instance.  Why the heck do we give them aid? To remain friendly with them.  After all they do have a lot of oil, we’d like to see the area controlled by friendlies rather than extremists and we need to access many places we ‘need to be’, so we need to go through Saudi Arabia.  So why call it ‘aid’?  Why not call it what it is, a payoff.

Okay, say your friend needs $5000.  She asks you for it.  You don’t have it (you’re broke, your own children are suffering).  What would you do?  Would you borrow that money from someone else and pay interest on it and then GIVE it to your friend….for free….no need to pay you back?  Of course not!  But our government does this all the time… only it’s not $5000 gifts, it’s more like $1,000,000,000.  How stupid is that?  I can see if there is a need (starvation, typhoons, etc.)  But why do we GIVE Israel 3 Billion a year? 

Look at Japan.  They were pretty much done after WWII until we came in and rebuilt them.  Really the only thing they were more advanced in, over the US, was technology.  In 1960 Japan started selling cars to the US.  Since then the world has gone through a few oil shortages.  What did they do?  They started thinking like Americans USED to think.  They looked to the future and developed an alternative car.  They developed a hybrid!  It’s not like they developed that technology just for them, they developed it to sell to the US, where the majority of their car sales were! No dummies, they annihilated the market. 

Not only is Japan the #2 economy worldwide, they are also the 2nd largest global market for solar energy!  They understand the problem with fossil fuels so they are striving to be less dependent on them and be energy independent.  They don’t think it to death, they just do it.  (As we sit there scratching our heads like something snuck up on us when we weren’t paying attention.)

And Free trade.  Why call it free trade?  I think of trade like….you buy X amount of this from us, and we’ll by X amount of that from you.  (Maybe that’s ‘FAIR trade’)  In 2007 the US exported $63 Billion worth of goods to Japan, while Japan exported $146 Billion worth of goods to the US. 

And we all know how much China sends over here.  Much of it was on recall lists over the past couple years.  They’ve decimated our steel industry and are buying up our country.  Tell me…other than our businesses operating over there, what kind of reception would we get if we wanted to buy part of China?

America needs to get back to how it was in WWII.  We need to find ourselves again.  What happened to the days when we all pulled together for the greater good of each other? 

You know, there was a time when people were afraid to speak out against their government, their President.  It was blasphemous to do so.   Well, those days are over.  They ended when the government stopped serving it’s people and started serving corporations and their own interests.

We need everyone in this country to wake up out of their stupor.  Why are we letting ourselves be taken advantage of?  The Constitution does not say ‘By the Corporations, For the Privileged and ‘whoever is leftover’……We need to take back our country. 

For every day Congress was in session last year, lobbyists spent an average of 17 million dollars greasing the greedy palms of our legislators and federal officials.  What a bunch of bullshit.

Where is the outrage?  Why isn’t everyone standing up and shouting from rooftops?  Why is corruption a glazed over part of our lives?  Where’s the revolution?  We’re sitting around like a bunch of robotic pansies. 

“To say that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile it is morally treasonable to the American people.” 
                                                               ~Theodore Roosevelt 1918