In Whom We Trust
This is a guest post by Linda of Best Kept Recipes.
From my particular viewpoint that would be God. But the dear people of our great country are looking for someone, anyone in politics to turn to for a crumb of trust. Politics and trust – they do make for strange bedfellows.
It would do politicians well to remember that we elected them to work for us, as in United States. We picked them and voted them into office which was our decision. There is now a greater need to keep a trained eye on their progress as well as their backpedaling. Be grateful for watchdog groups who go the extra mile and dig to uncover what lies beneath; which seems like a never ending frittering of suspicion. What ticks me off is the after-the-fact-digging. If any of our media outlets would do their jobs of researching and reporting these findings before the politicians get into office it wouldn’t seem like we just closed the barn door after the runaway horse. Why aren’t these politicians doing their jobs? In the real world you’d be fired or imprisoned for this web of deceit and clandestine meetings. What is wrong with them? What is wrong with us? Do we all have blinders on? Is that what is called politics as usual?
Forget the left, right and middle. This is the time to tell the truth, to step up to the plate. One state is now hiring a public relations firm to help push this porkulous bill! What? We cannot just look the other way. People need to be accountable for what they say and do. Our president has to focus on our economy and stop gallivanting all over the place partying – he’s campaigning again! I’m the parent of a child with ADHD, I know a Ritalin case when I see one. Maybe they should duct tape him to his Oval Office chair so he can get some work done. Perhaps write or do something that doesn’t require having to be fed and coached with teleprompters.
Step 4 of AA says, “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” These politicians would have ceased this behavior had they done this. But alas, I’m jumping ahead of myself. You cannot get to Step 4 until the first three steps are completed. (Sigh).
Step 1 is: “We admitted we were powerless. . .that our lives had become unmanageable.” Here’s the thing – our lives are becoming unmanageable because of bad behavior, theirs and ours. Because we’ve allowed them to mismanage and power trip the handling of our tax monies and laws. Always remember: we’ve allowed it to happen. The Senate elections of 2010 are not coming soon enough. Don’t even get me started on the 2012 elections – I’m saving that for a future article.
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Linda is an Administrative Manager by day and a cooking website writer all other times. Check out her all-homemade cooking website, Best Kept Recipes.
Holly on Tue, 24th Mar 2009 12:27 pm
It is definitely safe to say that the American people are looking for a grain of trust in our government and it is for good reason. After the last 8 years, we know now how much damage has been done world-wide in our name and we deserved more than that then and we deserve that now. Many people would like to point out that Barack Obama has done nothing in his presidency thus far, which is completely untrue; he has already signed the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act ensuring that woman will have the ability to create lawsuits against their employers/ex-employers for receiving less pay for equal work. He has created a bonafide Council to focus on issues affecting women and girls, and he has also ended the funding ban for stem cell research. And those are just the top 3 off of the top of my head. He has definitely been impressive in his work for females in this country and I believe he will continue to be just as impressive throughout the rest of his presidency.
The fact of the matter here and in many other people’s minds is that we are in a recession, which some people are even starting to call a depression now, with home foreclosures and unemployment on the rise. Are we really only giving Obama 3 months to fix the entire economy that took more than 8 years to create?
While sure, not all of our problems have evolved in the last 8 years, what the American people are so focused on right now are issues that have evolved in just those 8 years and it is going to take longer than 3 months to fix everything that has crumbled.
As far as “all over the place partying” goes, come on. All presidents throughout history have attended get togethers of all kinds; the difference here is that most of our ex-presidents (not all, most) were not being looked at to fix the entire country.
Sandy on Tue, 24th Mar 2009 1:07 pm
I couldnt agree with you more! Barak is like a crackhead given an unlimited bank account to spend spend spend. And thats just what he is doing. I say he needs to shut up and put up. Stop telling everyone who will listen”Im the president…duhhh. Now start being the president. Fix this mess.
Pennsylvania Personal Injury Lawyers on Thu, 26th Mar 2009 6:11 pm
It is one of the most frustrating things to see politicians and the shenanigans they pull. I really hope that one day Americans will see what kind of crap is actually going on, and attempt to fix it. Maybe someday it will happen.
Ben on Thu, 21st Jan 2010 5:34 pm
Here here. You’re absolutely right. Politics, now more so than ever, is in dire need of change.