I was watching the news today and couldn't help but get a little ticked about a comment someone made in California regarding voters. In effect this person said the public was too stupid to be able to understand more than one issue at a time.
While I'm not from California, this person's comment is all too indicative of the attitude politicians have towards the American people: They're too stupid to know what's good for them, so we will do it for them. I hate to break it to these type of politicians that people are a great deal smarter than they are given credit, especially in the area they are most concerned about: their jobs, their families, and their community. Rational people also tend to educate themselves quickly about an issue they may have little or no experience dealing with when they become aware of it.
The real problem are the manipulative and deceitful numbers of politicians, special interest groups, and mass media outlets that present people with disingenuous statements and distort events to their satisfaction.
For example, President Bush called the Minutemen here in Arizona a bunch of vigilantes implying that they are the problem, not the issue of illegal immigrants that the Bush Administration has ignored or given only lip-service to since day one. Added to this are the extreme left wing outlets that decry the Minutemen as anti-American and racist. While there is a small element of racists assisting the Minutemen, the vast majority are ordinary Americans tired of the U.S. government ignoring the many decades old requests by the Southwestern States and California for more funds to fend off illegal immigration, the burden illegals bring to local communities, and to improve border security. Requests that have been routinely ignored with increasing arrogance by the Federal Government. Was there mention of this in most media outlets?
No. There was not.
What about Arizona Governor J. Napolitano's sending a bill to the Federal Government to cover costs incurred due to federal laws passed without provisions to support the operation of such laws? (A bill the Federal government claims it cannot afford to pay, yet allows waste of millions of taxpayers money of for the selfish interests of congressman and women and their staffers.)
This too never made the news in the major news outlets.
No the problem isn't the people. It's the inherent corruption brought about by the very people who claim to know what's best for Americans.
Okay. 'Nuff venting on my part.
