I keep trying to step back and ignore politics. Washington D.C. has become worse than the swamp it was built on. It is a toxic cesspool. And the players do not change, just the names do. Clinton is still promising citizenship to any and all who want to just waltz across our border. Trump is Trump. Will he do what he says? I can only hope so and many, many others in this country are hanging onto him because he is our last ditch effort to take back a shadow of our once great country. The is total disconnect between those in Washington and those of us who have to work for a living. We, quite simply, do not matter and if they could find a way around the elections, we would truly be relegated to the trash heap for that is how we are view now--simply a necessary evil because the pesky Constitution is in the way. There is a bumper sticker I see every day. It states "How can you trust a government that does not trust you with guns?" My question is a lot more in depth. How can you trust a government that sees you as basically cannon fodder to be trotted out, lied to, and used to get those votes to get into office. And it does not really matter who we want in office. It boils down to who will the democrats trot out for us to vote for and who will the republicans trot out for us to vote for. And no one cares if they are good for the country. No one cares if they will put the citizens first. The only thing these people care about is their bank accounts. Pure and simple, politics had evolved into how much money can I get from it. And it has been this mess since Nixon. Actually Barry Goldwater started us on this trip. Republicans are in the back pockets of business. Democrats are as well, but they try to cloak it in civic responsibility.
And we have recent arrivals coming here and making their own demands and getting their way. Let's just talk about Silicon Valley. One of the new billionaires who is from India is going to jail for assult and battery. He should be deported and if he has gained citizenship, revoke it and boot him out. The two graduating seniors who stood on the podium and rubbed our noses in the fact that they are illegal and have stiffed the taxpayer for their education, they get very good offers from places like Harvard because they are illegal. Those offers would never have been made to a poor citizen who really needs the help. Nope, that poor citizen is screwed. I look at my grandchildren. They are brilliant. And they are white and poor. They will have no chance. I will take out a second mortgage on my house to put them through college. There will be no help for them otherwise. However, if they are illegal or the children of illegals, those parents show no income because they work under the table. So they can get all kinds of grants, loans, and scholarships. They will get a free ride right through college. They will be rewarded for being criminals. What message is that sending to the world? That the Americans are suckers and can be used and stolen from and nothing will happen to them for it. And our politicians sit on their welfare rears in Washington and let it happen and have been doing so since the 1970's. Your elected officials do not work for you, the voter. They work for big business and lobbyists. Tom Cotton was paid a cool million for trying to block the Iran deal in congress and no one has yet to charge him with taking a bribe. Why not? Because congress has fixed the laws that allow them to take these bribes. Nancy Pelosi made millions on insider trading. Martha Stewart went to prison for the same thing. And yet none of these congressmen and women are ever going to face any repercussions from these illegal acts because they are not illegal for congress. So now you have an understanding of why we will keep those guns. We may, God forbid, actually need them at some time in the future. Bottom line is we are on our own. If you are not at least in the upper middle class, you are person non grata as far as your elected representatives are concerned. They don't give a damn.
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