Lies and Deception

This is what I feel we have been given after 50 days.

We were promised much more during the campaign but we are receiving the usual from Washington. In the end it makes sick.

• We were promised that earmarks would be eliminated yet they are at record levels. The audacity to sign the bill knowing it was full of earmarks is shameful.
• Lobbyists were not supposed to be allowed into the administration but they are there and more are being added. It is business as usual.
• We were told that everyone would be heard on issues, but it has been the same closed system. There are no discussion about alternative or middle ground.
• Future tax burdens loom with with the record spending levels. How else are they going to be paid for?

During the State of Union address, we heard that universal health, education, and green energy are the ways out of the economic troubles we have.

This is deceptive because these are not the problem with the economy. It revolves around toxic loans and frozen credit. Yet we have not heard definitive plans to address these problems. Just rhetoric and bills to promote an agenda.

As citizens, we need to speak out and say that this is not right. During the mid-term congressional elections, we need to vote out the politicians that participated in this (regardless of their party).

I probably should not be sick over this, but probably mad instead.