An Honest Point of View

The elections are drawing nearer and the candidates continue to take pot shots at each other at every turn. I guess it’s a lot easier, than trying to come up with ways to dig us out of the hole we’ve been in for the past eight years. The way I see it, no matter who’s running the country in 2009 we’re still screwed. We just bailed out Wall Street so, who’s next on the taxpayer charity trust fund list?

It amazes me, we can give away billions of dollars in taxpayer funds to foreign nations and financial mismanagement on Wall Street but, we become very stingy when it comes to giving the average John and Jane Doe here any of those funds. I’m not saying don’t help those in need but remember, charity starts at home. We have citizens here that have been devastated by hurricanes and they have to go through tons of political red tape for what amounts to pennies. Greedy insurance companies that are more than happy to collect their monthly premiums then use every loophole in the book in order not to pay their policy holders.

It happened during Katrina, Rita and now Ike. Most people have lost everything that they own and are faced with the grim task of starting over from nothing. Why can’t the government give them money to rebuild their homes and lives? Mostly because, there’s nothing in it for the political fat cats and lobbyists. We just keep working, paying taxes and watching the government squander it. Whoever, the next President is should think about putting the people, who elected them first for a change.