Cover via Amazon“Obama will not take money from registered lobbyists like me,” the lobbyist said with some bitterness, “but that doesn’t mean that he won’t take money from people who are lobbying. There’s a big difference.”
I have said this so many times I have lost count: "Only a few corporations are abusing their capitalistic powers over our way of life. We allow them to get away with it due to whom we vote for in each and every election. We are responsible for the final solution. As Shakespeare said, "Dear Brutus, our fault does not lie in our stars but in our selves."
Right now the old saying "If we work hard enough, you can get anything you want out of life" is dead. Why? If you cannot answer that, then you will never get it. We are not the United States if people are not going to be united. How did we get out of the Great Depression after WWII? If you cannot answer than, then you might as well stop reading this blog post.
Until we read for the first time in our lives the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, then we are not going understand that much about our own country less alone how to thrive in it. We Americans must know our history in order to live in the present as well as push forward for a future. It is up to all of us. After all the Preamble states clearly and without distinction: WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Lobbyists are not an evil lot in themselves unless they are abusive in their own right. If one aspect of America loses, we all will lose. That is the meaning of being "United." Lobbyists are for the people because they are just as much a part of this country as the rest. Some are there to defend the underdog in this country. Some are not.
It is the few that causes a great deal of trouble. They only care for themselves and do not care about the aftermath of their actions on others. As Americans, we can use the Declaration of Independence to change things. If we do so, the changes will not be instantaneous. It was not over night that all this we are in today came to pass. It will take many more years to clean up the economic mess we are in, how we got there in the first place, and go forward in the direction we should be going at it as a nation.
It was the same way in Jamestown in 1606. It was hard for us once we won our Independence after the Revolutionary War, which I believe should have been called The War of Independence. After the Civil War, we had to work hard to go forward. Just about ever war before the Vietnam War, we have grown out of our economic rut and thrived beyond expectations. We have marveled the world due to our strengths.
Now we are in the 21st Century and we are not doing half as good as we have in our history. This is not the fault of lobbyists, Republicans, Democrats, or anyone else. We have doomed ourselves by ourselves. Now for the article at hand. I first had to write what you have before you in order for me to start on the reason I am writing this post.
For Obama to use lobbyist to help him win the election in his campaign is not contrary to what he has said about lobbyists. WE THE PEOPLE means just that. Everyone, and I mean everyone, is an American citizen. We all have our part to play and live by. When we come together as a united people, then can we thrive as a country. It is the bad eggs in society that cause complexity after complexity.
Obama is one man, and he will be one man until the rest of us unite together with our President to make this country thrive in the 21st Century and beyond. Will you vote for the right change or the path we are going down now? We cannot live as individuals if we are suffering as a nation. The choice is for us all to make.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/us/politics/obama-bundlers-have-ties-to-lobbying.html
