Our government is broken almost to a point of no return. Our party system is not working properly and never will. We hire these people in Congress to do the will of the people. We pay them about $3,400 per week and all we hear on TV is them giving speeches that we have heard over and over, but speeches get nothing done. Instead, we need action. No one has the guts to tell the truth. Now our debt is so high that interest alone is eating us alive.
The House wants to cut the debt by cutting spending. The first they want to cut is Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, etc. Now where did our money go that we all put in when we were working? The government took it out and what is left but IOUs that they cannot pay back to the Social Security fund because our government is broke.
We are buying oil at top prices when we have all the oil we need right here in the USA. The government has tied up the land so no one can drill. Big oil companies are ready to finance the drilling, creating jobs, but are not allowed to.
As far as Iraq and Afghanistan, those people do not even want us there and the cost is staggering. Other countries around the world are rebelling because of corrupt government, but we have the same. We do not need rich lobbyists to bribe our lawmakers to do what they want them to do.
So the story is, we need a whole new system of running this great USA of ours that we all love.
I am writing this as a United States citizen, born in the USA in 1917. I have seen our country go downhill over the years. So may God help us if it is not already too late.
Russ Page
Granite Falls
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