Who really Runs The Country?

There is a noticeable anger brewing across America. There is also fear in the eye's of the people that we are losing our country. And in confronting the elected officials, there seems to be genuine surprise at the animosity tossed at them by the rank and file constituents. The elected officials in DC are for the most part, so removed from the lives of their constituents, they had no idea that so many people have been growing upset with how they do things, and what they are doing.

The Democrats, who for decades have relied on professional groups like ACORN to get out the “grassroots” activists, and have made disruption of events a way of life, are screaming foul. In their mind the Republicans must be doing the same thing. They still do not understand the anger is real, and the folks if organized at all, have organized themselves.

So they call the folks names. Nazi's, Brown Shirts, Racist, Unamerican, anything to marginalize the opposition. What they do not seem to comprehend is the anger at DC is real, and is not going away. The Health Care takeover is just the tipping point for many Americans.

Most of what they do in DC goes unnoticed, and takes a while to effect the regular folks. But this has been brewing for a while. The anger started with the TARP bailouts, that 90% of Americans were against.

Then the Stimulus, which 90% of Americans were against. Cap and Trade, Health Care, taking over the auto companies and the banks. Wiping out regular folks retirement plans, while demonizing them as “Greedy Hedge Fund Wall Streeters”. America has had enough. It only adds fuel to the fire when you contact your representative about a specific concern you have, and they reply with a short note basically telling you they know what is best, but thanks for your input. I have received several of these over the years.

And I haven't said anything you don't already know, but here is something you might not fully comprehend.

I read an article yesterday that really hit the point home on how we lost our country decades ago. It was written by one of the co owners of the Above Top Secret web site. He had gone too DC with some other independent web owners to represent their concerns in regard to upcoming legislation concerning the Internet.

They were assigned a Lobbyist, and proceeded on their schedule. By the end of his visit he made the observation that the lobbyist's control DC. He asked a lobbyist about it, and was told it had been like that for decades. The people have no say.

Here is the link to the article. It is very concise and well written, and I think it is a must read:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread490790/pg1

I tell you this, not because you don't know it in the back of your mind, but we still like to think our voice matters. It does not.

Which brings me back to the town halls, and the genuine surprise at the anger of the people. They only deal with lobbyist's. Their staff handles the Email and letters and phone calls. They really have no clue. This is probably the first time that regular folks have felt inclined to go to town halls and voice their opinions in decades, if not longer. And the congresspeople just were not expecting it.

And since they have been sheltered from the building anger, they feel it cannot be the regular folks behind it. It simply must be the GOP organizing it.

I read a quote where someone made the observation that the GOP could not organize a bake sale right now, and I think that is pretty close to the truth.

The media, which outside of FOX, is just a probama cheerleader, doesn't help. Anyone in DC watching any news outlets would believe all is well with the little man.

Back to Health Care. Have you noticed that what they call it has changed several times over the last month. Now it is health insurance reform. And have you also noticed that the regular folks asking questions seem to have read the House Bill posted online, but their representatives have not. They just give the official talking point answers.

And they wonder why folks are upset.

Slowly, America is waking up, and they want their country back. The question now is, is it too far gone to save, or must we start over.

There are a lot of rumors floating around now that there will be bank holidays in September. There are rumors that the police and the military are getting ready for a major outbreak of civil unrest. While there have been rumors of martial law being imposed since Bush took office in 2000, it is now coming from rational and sane people.

Everyone seems to understand the official unemployment numbers do not reflect true unemployment. The debt incurred this year alone is unmanageable, and the green shoot theory is just more DC none sense trying to ease the fears of the people. Folks are seeing through the veil of disinformation and see how bad things really are.

One only has to go back to when the government acknowledged the recession. For two years they said everything was wonderful. Then in December of 2008, they suddenly rechecked their numbers, and admitted we had been in a recession for one full year. Now they say oop's, it was more like two years.

Six months ago 600 to 700,000 folks applied for unemployment every month. Now those folks are all running out of benefits and being kicked off the rolls. They will no longer be counted as unemployed, and they will have zero income. This has already started. Although everyone quotes different numbers on any given day, it seems that between 500 and 800,,000 just lost benefits during July.

The banks have been keeping new foreclosures off the books since January. And there is about to be another monthly wave as folks lose their benefits. Commercial real estate is about to implode.

The government was all a tizzy with happiness as they touted last months lower unemployment numbers. In actuality, after you take out their formulas, I have seen estimates that reflect 500 to 800,000 actually lost jobs. I have also read economist's stating the lower numbers are a result of companies are now operating on a skeleton crew, and will simply fold up if they let anyone else go.

I think both are true.

The anger and fear in America is real. The question now is, will the folks in DC recognize this and act accordingly, or will they go back and pass their agenda anyway. If they do the former, there is still hope for the country. If they do the latter, there will be some very bad and scary times ahead indeed.