Who Cares - for America?

I share the sentiments of many of you, who cares? It seems only the people who are being affected, the very ones who live through the burdens each day of supplying the simple necessities of a roof over their heads, a bed to rest, and food on the table.

Most from the government seem attentive to themselves while filling our ears with rhetoric and offering insignificant stimuli. They easily ignore the rest, the citizens whom they are suppose to represent. Do the politicians really care about what others care, when they drive or are driven in government vehicles, what the prices are of gasoline? Are their eyes ever opened wide if they were to look at the cost of food at the grocery stores? And are they truly rattled by people losing homes, jobs, health, and self-worth? If politicians did care then how did things get so out of control?

Many of the problems we encounter are not new. Almost everyone who has kept up with the economy knew these events would happen many years ago. Much of these situations we are forced to bear, have been recycled over again from a decade to over a half a century. But no leader or politician seemed to care enough then and so very little has changed since but the role players themselves. Why is it we can never get on track to our nation being the force it once was?

Those many we have commissioned with the power to oversee our affairs have sold that power to the highest bidders; they have exchanged their influence and decision making over our commonwealth to affluent and often foreign entities in order to personally ascend above the concerns of the common citizens. We are left to suffer the consequences of their mismanagement of our concerns because of their selfish indulgencies and irresponsible agendas.