OUR ELECTED CRIMINALS

OUR ELECTED CRIMINALS

[SOME ETHICS & SCANDALS]

How the American Public has let down the American Public

Ø  Our elected officials have been busy little beavers when it comes to breaking the law and/or acting contrary to their stated family and social values.

Ø  In the summation section you will see that very few of these “ladies” and “gentlemen” ever pay any significant penalty for such discretions.

v  These are the very folks we like to call our political “elite”. Really?

Ø  Almost, to a man or a woman, they are all lawyers, which is somehow eerily ironic, and absolutely unacceptable.

v  Take a good look, folks!

Ø  Then ask yourself the question; “Why do we, as citizens of this Nation, keep electing these degenerates to represent us?”

Ø  The answer to that question is we all have “STUPID” tattooed across our foreheads.

Ø  When the Hell do we wake up and make democracy work the way it was intended to work?

Ø  We don’t need a whole lot of “Hope And Change”, or “a Future We Can Believe In”.

Ø  We certainly don’t have to “Make America Great Again”; we already are, and have been for quite some time.

v  Can we do better?

Ø  You bet your sweet Ass we can, but, if we don’t start soon, we’re all going to Hell in a hand-basket!

Ø  Is that the legacy you want to leave your kids, their kids, and so on down the line?

Ø  Stop being a collective herd of lemmings with your heads in the sand (or, elsewhere).

Ø  If you don’t do it, nobody will.

Ø  Please try using that lump on top of your shoulders that God gave you.

v  Let’s get rid of that tattoo and be a part of the democratic process.

The tally on this score card:

       

# of perpetrators:               Republicans,50      Democrats, 35

# jail time:                           19

# probation:                        7

# censured:                         4

# impeached:                      1

# fined:                                7

# nothing:                           56

# charges dropped:            3

A number of figures jump off the page at you; indicating the elite Washington ruling class. They don’t treat each other in the same fashion that they treat the Unwashed Masses. I guess you already knew that. It’s just worth confirming it from time to time.

Now, tell me, is a Second American Revolution out of the question?

POP....GO THE WEASELs!

ENGAGING THE ENEMY

- The Nation’s Veterans collecting on a debt...

The standard accounting of Veterans in two Counties that make up Long Island, New York, is 85,000. That seems like a high number when you look at a map of the U.S. and isolate the Counties that make up the suburb communities of Nassau and Suffolk Counties. But, when you realize that there are almost 3,000,000 people in these two Counties that number starts to look pretty small. The figures, below, substantiate the number of Veterans as a percentage of the population. The last group of numbers, below, are the National totals, and reflect the Veterans from all armed conflicts and wars who are still living.

U.S. > New York > Long Island > Nassau & Suffolk Counties >

Veterans ^[1] > as a % of total population:

[ http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/36/36103.html ]

Nassau Co.

Pop. Est. / 2012             1,339,529

Veterans ^[1] / 2012              65,613      = 5.00 %                                                     

Suffolk Co.

Pop. Est. / 2012             1,493,350

Veterans ^[1] / 2012              87,284      = 5.50 %

United States > Veterans as a % of population:

[ http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html ]

Pop. Est. / 2012             313,873,685

Veterans ^[1] / 2012           21,853,912  = 7.00 %

[1]: Surviving Veterans of all armed conflicts (wars); World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War,

Lebanon War, Persian Gulf War, Afghan War, Iraq War, and numerous smaller armed conflicts since 1943.

Politicians in this Country take a look at numbers like these to forge their strategies. 7% of any political constituency forms a block of possible voters who, by and large, can be ignored with no impact to a political campaign, or term in Office. If you look at politics as simply a numbers game, this type of thinking makes sense. There is, however, one small problem when you blatantly minimize, lie to, and ignore this Nation’s Veterans. We Veterans, as a whole, tend to vote; unlike the rest of the civilian population. We also have an earned distrust of government; after all, it was government that sent us off to fight wars in God-forsaken lands. And, once we got there, it was government that refused to supply us with adequate gear, rolling stock, and proper military strategy. Then, when we got back home, we were promised a package of benefits

that weren't accessible, or were unattainable, or simply denied. This has been the overriding case since the Vietnam War, and, to Veterans of that era, it is painful to see how inadequately the Veterans of today are being treated. Granted it is tough cleaning up the human excrement left by war, but that is one of the jobs a Federal government that created the mess is obligated to do.

No one seems to be asking the question, “ If the Federal and State governments deliver the services they claim to, then why do organizations like The Wounded Warrior Project, The Soldier’s Project, the PTSD Veterans Association, and all the rest of the 501(c)’s have a need to exist?” The answer is that they shouldn't need to exist; the government should be there to pick up the pieces when their Soldiers return home – no matter the cost.

History tells us that fighting is in our DNA. Wars and armed conflicts have been a part of the very fiber of humankind. And, in the modern day Armies, there is an insidious cancer that is called the Military/Industrial Complex. Just the term should raise the hair on the back of your neck; it did for President/General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower. So, now we have dollar signs attached to everything related to a standing Army, including benefits for Veterans. This certainly is a bean-counters’ Heaven! It appears that currently that is all the Department of Veterans Affairs knows how to do. The fewer benefits and services delivered to our Veterans, the better the “bottom line” looks. Ah, but I digress...

We may be only a measly 5-7% of the population, but we have a record of going to the polls on Election Day that puts any other voter block to shame – by a lot. So, having fought enemies of the State, it is now necessary that we engage in battle again; this time fighting the State. To that end I am starting a letter writing campaign, a Veteran voter information campaign, and a Veteran mobilization campaign to let our “elected” officials know that “...we’re mad as Hell, and we aren’t going to take it anymore...” I give you my first offering:

                                                                      

  

 “A Band Of Brothers”

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