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The Anti-Government Tidal Wave of 2016
Does anyone remember this quote from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address? “This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
The 21st century interpretation reads more like--“of the government, by the government, and for the political elite, the lobbyists, the big money donors, the activists, the special interest groups, the crony capitalists, the unelected bureaucrats, the big bankers, the public sector unions, and the massive complex of attorneys and lawyers who specialize in protecting the above mentioned.
My fellow citizens, America is in dire straits. We wield little or no power in D.C., because most of the time, our representatives succumb to Washington’s lure of power and privilege.
America is no longer recognizable. Just look at the current frontrunners in the presidential race—a 68-year-old former First Lady, who’s actions as Secretary of State are the subject of an intense FBI investigation; and, a billionaire real estate mogul who’s pulling off the ultimate reality show, “Make America Great Again” starring Donald Trump.
Whoever becomes our 45th president, that person will ride into the White House on a tidal wave of an anti-government sentiment, and the reasons are many.
Under President Obama, our national debt, just last week, topped $19 trillion. That’s over $58,000 for EVERY man, woman and child in the U.S. The interest we pay on that debt is over $17,000 every second.
The middle class is on life support. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the typical American family income for 2014 was $53,657. But how does that compare with the families employed in and around the Washington D.C. area, where six of the top 10 wealthiest counties are? Census Bureau statistics show the average household income for those families is over $100,000.
Plus, there’s never a shortage of bonuses for federal employees. According to the Office of Personnel Management, in 2013, government employees received $27,245,666 (that’s millions) in bonuses, including those V.A. managers who were falsifying information, while military veterans were dying waiting for medical care.
According to the propaganda we hear from the White House, the economy is doing just fine. They don’t tell you that 94 million Americans, who could be working, are no longer in the labor force—over 27 million people are stuck in part-time jobs—over 45 million receive food stamps—and over 46 million people are living in poverty. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal revealed that 63% of adults don’t even have enough money in their savings to cover an unexpected $500 automobile repair.
American anger is not a manufactured political slogan. It’s real. A current Pew Research poll shows only 19% of citizens say they can trust the government always or most of the time, the lowest level in the past 50 years. The dysfunction in Washington is so blatantly obvious; you need only to look at recent events.
This is a government that spent $2 billion on an Obama Care website, and after years of planning, it crashed on the first day.
This is a government totally incompetent at cyber security. Last year 25 million Americans were notified that their Social Security numbers and other sensitive information had been stolen because the computers of the Office of Personnel Management had been hacked.
This is a government that lost track of some 2,000 high-powered rifles, including AK-47s, during “Fast and Furious,” which resulted in the deaths of two U.S. law-enforcement agents. One of the 2,000 rifles was recovered recently with the capture of the drug lord, El Chapo Guzman—a powerful .50 caliber weapon capable of shooting down a helicopter.
This is a government that can’t even protect the president. In 2014, Omar Gonzalez, who was carrying a knife, ran through the unlocked front door of the White House, and at one point, was by the stairway leading to the first family’s living quarters.
This is a government, it was discovered in 2012, that was sending Social Security checks to over 1,500 dead people, totaling over $30 million, and some had been receiving checks for almost 20 years.
This is a government that spent $42 million to train just five Syrian fighters to fight ISIS, and $43 million to build one natural-gas filling station in Afghanistan, which should have cost a half-million dollars.
This is a government incapable of handling security at our nation’s airports, even fifteen years after the attacks of 9/11. Last year, a series of undercover tests were conducted by Homeland Security at dozens of America’s busiest airports, to see if they could smuggle mock explosives or banned weapons through TSA checkpoints. The TSA agents failed 67 of the 70 tests—a 95% failure rate.
Want more? It’s endless. Last year, the government was responsible for accidentally mailing a number of kits containing live anthrax to 52 labs in 18 states, Washington D.C., and three foreign countries—plus—a U.S. Hellfire missile sent to Europe for training purposes was wrongly shipped from there to Cuba in 2014. Cuba has never returned it.
Yes, my fellow Americans, we all have a right to be angry. Our government is incompetent, corrupt, and fiscally challenged. To quote Ronald Reagan from 1981, “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.
PS: A quick tip to our next president—on day one, have your cleaning staff peek under the rug in the Oval Office. Tell the National Archives Museum they can stop searching for the original copy of the Constitution. It was swept under the rug in 2009.
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