Austin In His Underwear

Neither Party Cares For The People

As I dive deeper into partisan politics I become more afraid for this country. The major parties as I have seen are two sides to the same coin. The only difference in the two major parties is the way in which they plan to destroy this country. Until we as voting citizens reject party rhetoric and vote for those that truly represent our needs we will never have a government for the people by the people.

The Republicans have shed their once designated moniker as the party of small business. As we all know small business is or was the backbone of this nation. Since dropping small business they have embraced the corporate world. We see on a daily basis how votes on trade, immigration and the United Nations favor Corporate America and not American citizens. The facts and figures can be viewed at www.epi.org. This is the Economic Policy Institute’s web site and it contains as much information as you can digest on economic issues and how they have affected our citizens.

The Democrats have shed their designation as the party of the "working man" and have shifted to the "non-working man". I see that their grip on power is made possible by the subjugation of their constituents. This is a controversial subject, but it is easily seen. The Democrats only provide programs that will keep people tied to their current socioeconomic status. They never offer a solution because this would loosen their control over their constituency. They also use racism to promote their agenda because they know that white people are so afraid to be called racists they will cooperate with anything.

We have become a weak and ignorant society. We are more concerned with who will win American Idol than we are with getting out to vote. The power brokers are using our apathetic nature to control us. Until we get out, educate ourselves and vote accordingly we will forever be under their control.

For those of you that live in TN or if you want to see who Tennessee legislators get their money from go to www.state.tn.us/tref and click on candidate/pac reports. You can then type in the name, type of report and year for any legislator or candidate and view their contributions. Just as an example type in Naifeh for the legislator, select contributions and 2004 as the year. Print or write down his list of contributors. Then go back and type in Hargett as the legislator, select contributions and 2004 as the year. Print or write down his list of contributors as well. I used these two as an example because Naifeh is a liberal Democrat and Hargett is a conservative, Republican. These two should be polar opposites, but as you will notice their contributors are quite similar. Also notice how many contributions come from out of the state. Now who do you think is represented you or the special interests?

Austin

posted by Austin Farley Your Hero @ 11:29 AM