OpEdNews - Page 2 of Article: My Kind of Loyalty

We have more that unites us than divides us. The unemployed include the right and the left. Working people of all perspectives are losing their homes and their retirements and their futures. Teabaggers know that something is wrong but they misunderstand what it is, largely because they watch too much TV and read too little. But we have the same problem on the left, Democrats who don't know what being a Democrat means. So a Democrat comes along and says, "Let's bust a few unions and allow corporations to outsource jobs." Then these people answer criticism by saying, "Please, enough of this. Hearsay will not bring back jobs. Degrading Obama will only make it harder for him to get things done."

They mean well but they don't understand the criminalization and bastardization of government that is going on. A government that takes no interest in the wellbeing of its citizens is no longer a lawful government. A government that allows unemployment benefits to lapse while they go on vacation is a government of brutal insensitivity. To go off and celebrate independence while leaving millions of Americans in fear of a loss of everything is unconscionable.

Then, to talk of budgets while they give away fleets of jet fighters to third world dictatorships is a vile absurdity. Financial reform that turns consumer protection over to the banking industry is beyond criminal. Yet this Congress of both parties has called the unemployed lazy, just as they called the millions losing their homes stupid. Do you get it yet? The representatives of both parties are all calling you, the electorate, lazy and stupid. They blame you for the economic crisis and their answer is more of the same. More outsourcing, more H1-B visas, and if you don't like it then tough! The corporations do like it and that is who they answer to.

Even now the deficit reduction committee is walking in the door talking about cutting Social Security and Medicare and the amen corner of Republicans, Democrats and hired media is laying the ground work for them. They intend on dropping this bomb after the November elections and they will find bipartisan support. After destroying our economy, after destroying the middle class, after destroying our industrial base they think the answer for thirty years of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations and a decade of pointless war is to cut Social Security and Medicare.

If we let them get away with it then we are lazy and stupid! Would you let a stranger take from you? Would you let a workman steal from you? Would you let your servant steal from you? You can point your finger and still be misunderstood, but when you raise your fist your message is clear enough.

"My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death." (Mark Twain)

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