jstol3's Blog

We vote. We elect our representatives.

After we vote the lobbiests swoop in. They bring in big bucks provided by corporations. The bucks buy votes on corporate issues. Issues voted on by politicians bought off by corporate bucks decide price increases. Issues voted on by politicians bought off by corporate bucks decide available jobs and wages.

We, the people, are constantly kept scrambling to keep our heads above water and we can't win because wages always follow price increases so we can't get ahead and we don't have enough energy left to fight the system so we just keep scrambling to stay ahead of the bill collector, the landlord, the mortgage holder, and the purveyor of fuel that we all have to have just to get back and forth to work so we can earn that money to pay just to live.

Our system needs to be fixed folks, we need to outlaw corporate lobbiests. We need to follow through with our election day vote and make sure that our politicians represent us and not corporations and carry out the "will of the people".

Let your elected representatives know that you will be watching how they vote and who they cozy up with and let them know that you want a halt to corporate lobbying at the city, county, state and national levels.

I keep hearing that we can't exist without the corporations that provide the jobs. The reverse is also true - those corporations can't exist without workers either. Let your representatives at all levels know that only corporations who hire Americans and who don't ship jobs overseas should receive favorable tax considerations.

I am not a socialist, communist or Marxist but enough is enough we are being raped by corporate America with the blessing of the people we elected to represent us!