Elected Leaders True Worries
Dear Editor:
As you read the daily newspapers across the country and listen to the news on TV and radio, you can’t help but be bombarded with all the plans and sales talk coming out of the White House and Congress for tax cuts, proposed changes in Social Security, proposed changes in Medicare, cutbacks in entitlement programs, the cost of the war in Iraq, and the mounting national deficit that grows and grows. While Americans agree or disagree with many of these programs, and whether they truly understand the results of this typical political banter and salesmanship on both sides of the aisle, does not seem to be the major concern of our elected representatives in both houses of Congress and in the White House. Listen and read what the news is saying:
Do our leaders (in the Senate, Congress and White House) truly worry about the overall effect to our growing deficit? No!
Do our leaders truly worry about the fact that the President says our Social Security is going bust even though the Congressional Budget Office is estimating that in 75 years the overall cost will be $2 trillion and not the $10 trillion that we are being sold as happening just around the corner? No!
Do our leaders truly worry about the fact that cutting future payments to Social Security benefits will leave the average American with less than enough to survive? No!
Do our leaders truly worry about how the cost of medication is bankrupting some elderly Americans? No!
Do our leaders truly worry about the fact that privatization of part of Social Security might well add to the growing deficit and have it exceed 8% of GDP? No!
Do our leaders truly worry about the fact that the only real winner of privatization will be Wall Street, as fees to manage millions of accounts will grow beyond belief? No!
What they do worry about, as reported in the news, is that some of this might cost them control of Congress in the next election. It is obvious that they are more worried about their own position and income, both now and in the future after they retire, than about their constituents who put them there. When do Americans wake up and realize that they are not represented by our elected officials, both Democrats and Republicans, but by selfish people who are only interested in their own rear ends?
As you read the daily newspapers across the country and listen to the news on TV and radio, you can’t help but be bombarded with all the plans and sales talk coming out of the White House and Congress for tax cuts, proposed changes in Social Security, proposed changes in Medicare, cutbacks in entitlement programs, the cost of the war in Iraq, and the mounting national deficit that grows and grows. While Americans agree or disagree with many of these programs, and whether they truly understand the results of this typical political banter and salesmanship on both sides of the aisle, does not seem to be the major concern of our elected representatives in both houses of Congress and in the White House. Listen and read what the news is saying:
Do our leaders (in the Senate, Congress and White House) truly worry about the overall effect to our growing deficit? No!
Do our leaders truly worry about the fact that the President says our Social Security is going bust even though the Congressional Budget Office is estimating that in 75 years the overall cost will be $2 trillion and not the $10 trillion that we are being sold as happening just around the corner? No!
Do our leaders truly worry about the fact that cutting future payments to Social Security benefits will leave the average American with less than enough to survive? No!
Do our leaders truly worry about how the cost of medication is bankrupting some elderly Americans? No!
Do our leaders truly worry about the fact that privatization of part of Social Security might well add to the growing deficit and have it exceed 8% of GDP? No!
Do our leaders truly worry about the fact that the only real winner of privatization will be Wall Street, as fees to manage millions of accounts will grow beyond belief? No!
What they do worry about, as reported in the news, is that some of this might cost them control of Congress in the next election. It is obvious that they are more worried about their own position and income, both now and in the future after they retire, than about their constituents who put them there. When do Americans wake up and realize that they are not represented by our elected officials, both Democrats and Republicans, but by selfish people who are only interested in their own rear ends?
posted by Sam Schoolsky | 6:21 PM
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