What Happened to the American Dream?
Posted by Jacques on September 24, 2009 | 11 Comments
Two wars, five trillions dollars and counting, three trillion dollars to bail out large banks, giant insurance companies and all of the corruption on wall street.
Unemployment is in the double digits, and home foreclosures are forcing families to become homeless.
When are the American people going to get a “bail out”? The answer is we won’t of course. The government has no reason to bail us out! We don’t have any lobbyists in congress or in the white house.
There was once an American Dream! It was stolen from us however; there is no longer a dream, it has become a nightmare: factories are closing to be shipped overseas, American jobs are systematically destroyed, to be replaced by cheap labour in third world countries–all of this so that the large corporations could make triple their profit margin, and avoid paying taxes. How could our government allow this to go on?
Who are these people we elect to government? They are merely businessmen that run for office not to serve the American people, but to serve their own greed, the lobbyists, foreign companies, and special interest groups.
Long gone is the American dream. We are becoming slaves in our land. The money we work hard to make is taken from us in order to bail out large corporations and banks. These are the same banks that constantly raise the interest on our credit card bills. They borrow our hard earned money from the federal government at less then 2%, and they have the nerve to then turn around and raise our interest rates to 25% or higher!
Our government was supposed to bail out home owners with troubled mortgages. More lies as usual. They gave the banks 27 billion dollars–27 billion of our tax payer dollars and yet the banks refuse to help those with troubled mortgages. Much of this money they received cannot even be accounted for. It has been stolen just like the rest of the 2 trillion dollars of bail out money given by Bush and Obama.
For too long have the American people been in a deep sleep while our dreams and lives have been stolen away from us.
Are we going to wake up before it is too late? We must! It is time to make our voices heard. I ask all of you to write to your congressmen, senators and president. We must make them understand how we feel. The must understand that they have to act now.
Thank you for your support, and may God bless us all!
-Jacques