Something Very Wrong

[NanceGreggs]

Something Very Wrong
By Nancy Greggs

THERE'S SOMETHING VERY WRONG WHEN …

… citizens of a united country are encouraged by their government to see each other as enemies.

… a voter has to wonder whether his vote was counted accurately, or even counted at all.

… a president dismisses the counsel of experienced advisors, and the will of the majority of the people, and pursues his own course of action - even when his course has been proven wrong time and again.

… elected representatives put their loyalty to their party above the best interests of those who they have sworn to serve.

… billions of taxpayers’ dollars go missing in ‘the fog of war’, and no one even bothers to ask where the money has gone.

… an entire American city is destroyed by natural disaster, and the government considers the city, and its people, ‘expendable’.

… elected representatives allow the president to over-step the boundaries of his office and circumvent the law, without speaking up against either.

… so-called Christian leaders encourage their flock to support not only the mindless violence of war, but the mindless violence of torture.

… hard-working Americans watch their jobs outsourced to cheaper labor markets, as their government hands out tax-breaks to the corporations that do so.

… US companies go bankrupt due to lack of operating funds, while the CEO of that company walks away with millions.

… US companies cannot fulfill their pension obligations to workers, but can still afford to fulfill the Golden Parachute provisions promised to upper management.

… American citizens have to work a year to make the same salary the CEO of the company that employs them makes in one day.

… illegal immigrants are considered criminals for working in the US, while the US companies that illegally employ them are not.

… billions of dollars for a war that is accomplishing nothing is considered a wise investment, but funding health care for US citizens is considered too costly to discuss.

… the rumor-mill at the office water-cooler is a more reliable news source than the print media, TV and radio ‘news’ shows – combined.

… The War on Christmas gets coverage, while the war on citizens’ rights and freedoms gets none.

… teenagers get ‘visits’ from the FBI based on their library book choices, but authors who espouse the idea that “McVeigh should have bombed the NY Times building and its employees” are free to speak on nationally-broadcasted TV/radio shows without interference.

… US citizens have to read newspapers published in foreign countries to find out the truth of what’s happening in their own country.

… the TV news media spends days covering the escapades of a ‘runaway bride’, but dismisses weeks of post-2004 election fraud hearings in Ohio courtrooms as ‘internet rumors gone amok’.

… satirical comedy shows like The Daily Show and the Colbert Report are considered by audiences to be ‘the real news’, while so-called ‘legitimate’ news shows are considered to be laughable at best.

… an American citizen has to post all of the above truths on a website, because her own government refuses to recognize them, no less address them.

There's something terribly wrong ...