Right now millions of Americans are standing around the water cooler, talking at the gym, grabbing a fast bite to eat or a coffee and talking with someone else about how bad the economy is, how stupid and worthless congress is, how greed perverts people at the top of many corporations and whether or not either of the two Presidential nominees has the ability to take on the economy, health care, American energy independence or this nations defense in January.

Well folks, it’s time that we... that is you, me, I, us, take a stand and realize that WE are the government. We send our tax dollars to Washington as well as the legislators, the lobbyists, the bankers, the lawyers, the corporations, etc. You see every time we gripe or complain and ask someone to do something for, to or about a cause, we are asking for the government to do something about it. That action has some validity to it of course but it also brings many problems with it.

Take the concept of government run, nationalized health care for instance. In England they pay HUGE taxes plus 9% from every paycheck to have government run health care and their system is NOT solvent. Nor is their life expectancy any higher, the same goes for Cuba, Russia, and a ton of other countries. It is NOT making a profit. It cannot, does not and never will be able to sustain itself. "Government run and government provided nationalized health care" will run on our money, yours and mine.

Why in the world would we want it to? Why are WE asking the government to take care of much of anything with our tax dollars other than anything that relates back to our overall national transportation, food, drug, personal safety and national defense? Seriously... why should I pay for someone else's health care that could pay for it themselves and has not hit on hard times due to disability, job loss, etc? To me that is what tax dollars are there to help with is a physical or financial emergency and I am NOT talking about emergency surgery. I am talking about disaster relief as it can have an impact on everyone’s safety.

For those who have never thought of it in simple terms lay me spell it out for you... anything from the government is NOT FREE!

Someone... that means, you, me, your relatives, your friends, you neighbors, and yes even people you don't like have to pony up and pay for whatever the government spends... and oh my how they spend. They spend even when they don't have money, then they either want us to pay more in higher taxes and fees, or they simply get China, Japan or Saudi Arabia to prop up the money they start printing in mass.

The government, our US government is BROKE!!!

They have spent us dry, there is nothing more to give, our representatives on both sides of the aisle (minus a few exceptions) have continued to deficit spend day after day after day and we are letting them, what in the hell are WE thinking?

Can you? Can I? Can we write or bounce hot checks and get away with it? 

NO... why should they?

Would anyone of us give between 30%, 40%, or 50% of our paycheck to our kids if they came to us and told us they were going to spend it on something useless like crack or so they could buy an illegal handgun so they could go enjoy a game of russian roulette with Johnnie and Suzy down the street?

Again the answer is not just no, it's Hell NO!

Seriously people what in the "sam hill" are WE thinking? 

In light of what is going on in the financial markets, which are "overseen" by Congress, in light of the mess Social Security, Veterans Hospitals, Medicare and Medicaid are in, and in light of how wasteful our government is in regards to spending our money, why in the hell are we asking the government to provide national health care? More than that... why should WE even dream of asking them do it with OUR money?

Have we all become THAT weak minded to trust an over-bloated government full of inefficient, ineffective, liars, cheats and thieves to "fix" health care, when it is their overzealous regulatory standards and the allowance of ridiculous lawsuits which got us to this point in the first place?

Look folks, "Freedom Isn't Free" I know that, and we all have to a part to play in the betterment of society and each of has to contribute financially in some way, but why are WE so willing to run out in front of a bus and get run over like a bunch of blind lemmings just because some idiot from Washington stands up in front of a teleprompter and says "the government is not doing enough for you, I will do this or that for you, vote for me and I will give you this or that!"

Its bull...PERIOD.

The government does not "gives us" anything that we don't already pay for... why in the world are we not demanding to keep more of our own money and tell the government officials who are not doing a good job to go home and find a new line of work?

We can buy affordable health care already and we could buy more of it and be better insured if the government stepped out of it and allowed the private sector and the market to dictate the need, bigger and more government just leads to more waste.

The government is in the red, they don't do anything to make a profit and reduce our taxes; we are all being ripped off each day by a bunch of billionaires and millionaires in DC.

I have to ask people.... when are we going to stop the madness...

How stupid are we?

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This Blog is specifically intended for liberal Democrats Charles Schumer, of New York, Chris Dodd of Connecticut and Barney Frank of Massachusetts. I want to know from you three and others like you who share your ideas of what government should be, where in the "Sam Hill" were you gentlemen as the current financial house of cards was starting to show signs of folding?

Shame on you Chucky, you are the Chairman of Congress' Joint Economic Committee and a vocal critic of the Bush administration, shame and you Chris Dodd, you are the Senate Chairman of the Banking Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs, you Mr. Dodd, you got sweetheart loans as did your liberal friends like Senator Obama that most Americans have no ability to get, with special clauses which include no penalties, low interest rates, no fees etc. that brings me to Barney Frank, you are the Chairman of the Financial Services Committee and you promised the American voters in 2005 and 2006 this would not happen on your watch, but each of you sirs, you all lied!

Did you three think that conservative Bloggers and radio talk show hosts like me have forgotten that President Bush, and Senator John McCain tried to get you and the rest of the House and Senate to pass new sweeping oversight legislation back in 2003 and again in 2005? 

Why didn't you three or the "Dali-Bama" push for the passage of sweeping banking, mortgage lending and loan insurance reform legislation back in 2003 and 2005? Bush, McCain and hundreds of economists saw this disaster coming, but oh no not you!

Simply stated it was because Schumer, Dodd, Frank and your cronies like Reid, Rangel, Murtha, Boxer, Diane "Franken-Feinstein", Hillary "Rotten" Clinton, and Nancy "Stretch" Pelosi were too busy concentrating on blocking every piece of legislation on the Presidential wish list just to make the administration look bad. The plan was to keep the public and the news media focused on the war in Iraq, all in an effort to swing power back to liberal Democrats prior to the election.

Well you three back benchers it worked and thank you for this mess we are in. Now you and so many others on the liberal left, including Senators Joe Biden and Barack Obama want to cry foul... and it stinks sirs.

President Bush and John McCain saw this coming and you three did nothing, just because you clowns were in the middle of a big power grab you all chose to sit on your hands while leading in the charge to do nothing! You and so many others like you on the left refused the pass the FDIC Banking Reform Act of 2005 H.R. 1185 and you also refused to pass the Mortgage Regulatory Reform Act of 2005. Each of you claim now that Republicans have supposedly pushed us into this mess, yet you all continually blocked the passage of proposed Republican legislation to prevent it, just so you could win an election! 

Mr. Schumer you made the move on your own accord in June to leak letters you had sent to federal bank regulators, saying that the financial position of IndyMac Bank "poses significant risks to both taxpayers and borrowers" and then went on to ask â??if federal regulators were prepared to take measures that would help prevent the collapse of IndyMac or minimize the damage should such a failure occur." After that little note of yours Senator Schumer sent shock waves through the financial sector there was a $1.3 billion dollar run on the bank.

Less than one month later IndyMac was seized and the house of cards that congress could have prevented in 2003 started to fall and fall fast. At the time it was the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history. The banks employees and investors blamed Schumer for IndyMac's failure calling the leaking of the of the letters "reckless and grossly irresponsible." Over 50 former IndyMac employees, sent a letter to California Attorney General (and confirmed fellow moonbat) Jerry Brown stating that "Because of a malicious, politically motivated act of Charles Schumer, our lives have been shattered." Did Jerry Brown do anything? Will he? He said late last month the answer is "no." Why?

Because he and other nutty liberals want to try and hold Republicans accountable for the mess when it was Republicans who tried to get congressional Democrats to reach across the aisle and alter the current course of events back in 2003 and again in 2005. House and Senate Democrats, including Schumer, Dodd and Frank have accused the Bush administration of doing nothing to keep people from accepting loans they could not actually afford. Then to try and sweep this and all the other financial ruin under the rug and make the problem go away it was Schumer, Dodd, Frank and others that pressured the President to sign the Mortgage Relief Act a month ago.

Bush threatened to veto the bill and he should have, but he didn't, he caved as did hundreds of other Republicans and it is really disturbing, there is no excuse that justifies the bail out. Too bad too because the entire affair is the responsibility of a faulty banking system, poor banking management, underfunded investment groups who were flipping financially unstable properties, wretchedly poor congressional oversight and poorly qualified buyers.

Where is the individual responsibility in any of those scenarios, are we supposed to always bail out those who constantly survive on the misuse of the tax milk that flows like wasted water from the nipple of "Uncle Sugar?" The bill is now forcing all American citizens to back billions of dollars in bad loans, it amounts nothing more than taxation without representation. When he was originally asked about the affair Schumer refused to comment personally, instead he sent a spokesman out on his behalf to deny the allegations, "IndyMac's downfall was inevitable after years of high-risk lending."

That is true, but Schumer, Dodd and Frank were the Chairmen ultimately responsible for Federal oversight of IndyMac, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and others; they willingly allowed all this to take place on their watch just for the eventual political gain. Not to mention they helped lead the charge in 2003 and 2005 against at least two bills that could have helped prevent some of the current economic woes in the US.

Alas, it was all too tempting for those three morons to reach for the brass ring of congressional power by screaming about the Iraq war when the real train wreck that was about to derail and demolish our economic prosperity was just around the bend and in sight.

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