Who I Am

     When I was young, I did not see how politics affected me. Then when I worked for the government, I saw up close how politics were impacting my life and I began to be more interested. As politics have continued to erode the quality of our life, I have become totally disgusted by the direction in which they are turning. My father is turning in his grave!

      He taught me that we all had a successful vision of this country, but different people had different views as to how we would succeed and make things better overall. He said large businesses and businessmen suffered from greed and would gladly continue slavery, slave wages, or unsafe working conditions to make a buck, but even they wanted the good of the country. That is where the unions, rules and legislation come in, they protect the working man, while making the businessman and companies successful.

     That is no longer the case. Greed and selfishness rule the day. Enough is never enough. From 1980 to 1990 the top 1% of earners saw an income growth of 74% while the middle 5^th saw only a 2.3% increase but did not get any relief in expenses. This trend has continued to the point that the middle class is being destroyed by the political decisions across the country.

     I am disgusted. It needs to stop. We need to learn from history and not take our country back to the days when it was worth your life to work in a factory so that the only food you could afford to buy your family might be chalk mixed with water being sold as milk. A time when birth control was not available, but you really needed to have a lot of children because if half of them lived to adulthood, you did a good job and you needed those children to add to the family’s income so you might be able to buy real milk and so you might not have to work until the day you died because the children were supporting you. We rose above that by the 1950’s. We need to start moving forward again instead of repeating the worst of our history.