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By Frosty Wooldridge
July 5, 2012
NewsWithViews.com

Most Americans feel utter despair about the dysfunctionality of our current president and his Congress. Obama and 535 representatives fail to correct our economic decline, our trade deficit, our financial debt, enforce our immigration laws, correct our joblessness as well as our drop in standard of living for average Americans.

With 14 million unemployed and 7 million underemployed, and 46 million subsisting on food stamps, the numbers don’t lie. Obama and Congress fail our citizens at every level.

Astoundingly, those folks in Washington DC constitute the prime reason for America’s predicament. They engineered it with free foreign trade that killed our manufacturing; insourcing, offshoring and outsourcing of our jobs which they mandated; importing 3.1 million foreigners annually without pause for the past 40 years, which has created too many workers and not enough jobs, endless welfare programs for illiterate high school dropouts to live on forever, etc. Today, while Congressional critters enjoy wealth and privilege, we pay their bills and we eat the consequences.

At the same time, while Americans could vote them out of office, they re-elect most incumbents decade after decade. A senator must die before he finally vanishes from the halls of Congress, i.e., Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, Teddy Kennedy of Massachusetts, Strom Thurmond and at some point, John McCain of Arizona. You could name a dozen more career do-nothing senators that voters continued to vote into office long after the senators’ useful lives as to governing.

Alan Simpson, Senator from Wyoming, Co-Chair of Obama's deficit commission, calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation, as he compared "Social Security" to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats.

I ran across a Montana ranch woman, Patty Myers who spoke directly to exactly what we see happening in Congress.

More: http://newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty779.htm

[Grandma Lynn]

She's right, of course, but it won't
do a darn thing to help us. We can
write all we want, and they won't care.

And the damage is done!

[billwald]

People who want to have a 20th century US economy AND spend half their pay on cheap Chinese consumer goods must be smoking pot. How come none of you ever also ask for an import duty on consumer goods?

There isn't any job that isn't being sent off shore except fixing roads, building foundations, and grave digging. I heard that a local newspaper is sending their advertisement design jobs to India for designing the page layout.

[Grandma Lynn]

I've always thought it started by having
our cars built, or parts made overseas
that started it all.
Didn't I hear that we are considering
putting a duty on China's imports?
But since we owe them so much money,
I doubt that will happen.