Let Me Get This Straight...

Ok...

So...Let me get this straight...

The people elected Congress...now Congress is playing politics with the lives of people who work for the government...

Wow...

As per the constitution, Congress is the only body that can technically declare war on another country...

As of the last count I looked at, there are a little over 165,000 troops in Iraq and Afghanistan...all of which will only get a partial paycheck if these politicians in Washington don't settle a budget by the weekend. Did I mention its Thursday?

Not to mention the millions of Americans across the nation who may not see a paycheck because the two main sides can't come to terms on certain things.

It should be absolutely criminal for these politicians to mess with people's lives, in the midst of a recession no less, because they want to play politics.

This simply infuriates and confuses me...

I'll tell you why it infuriates me after the break.









It infuriates me because a nation that's supposed to be "For The People and By The People" has essentially just screwed the people...without the courtesy of a reacharound...

I mean, these Senators and Congressmen are entrusted with the livelihoods of millions of Americans. We've entrusted them to a level that we allow them to be the stewards of our desires and make decisions on our behalf...and they can't even have a sit down to keep us working...

Wow...

Jobs STILL aren't being created, Foreclosures are STILL occurring regularly, and these dumb asses are playing political chicken in Washington. Really?

What bothers me even more is that we can bail out GM (Good move), we can bail out banks (another good move), but we can't bail out our damn selves and pay our citizens because these tards want to play politics with each other. (No Bueno)

Plus we have a Commander-In-Chief that's busier talking tough to Libya and, pretty soon, fundraising to stand up for the every day working man with a government job and people that populate his fighting forces. Wow...

Next up...why it confuses me...









Iran, Egypt, Libya, France, certain parts of Saudi Arabia...

All of those places held their government accountable for not providing for the people. The young people who were supposedly the "Best Educated" and "Most Knowledgeable" generation to date were unsatisfied with how they were being handled by the government. The government had not kept their countries economically viable enough for them to find jobs...They were members of the unemployed/underemployed working class fighting for a seat at the table...

I'm confused because we have a very similar situation in America...and no one is doing a damn thing. We have politicians who have used our future as a down payment for their election in the present and we sit back and do nothing about it.

How does a nation become this complacent?

America...the "land of milk and honey"

A place where with a good education, a little hard work, and some ingenuity, you can make it! (As long as there's a spot for you.)

I guess this is my hop & change huh?

I guess this is what signing up to serve my country gets me? A bunch of whining ass suits in Washington that are willing to allow some people to go deeper in debt to satisfy their own political whims...

Damn shame...