A Democratic Government and Diabetes

A good percentage of  Americans say they no longer want “big” government. Well, we’ve had small government for the past eight years and results are outstandingly disappointing. The majority of the American public was not involved in our governmental decisions for the past two administrations. We allowed our executive branch to tell us what was good for us. They told us what was good for us, but they did what was good for them! The results of the American people losing control of their congressional representatives has been catastrophic. 

Our Democratic way of government in the United States has been hijacked by only 2% of our total population. The last administration of “G.W. Bush” allowed Wall St. executives in the banking, real estate and insurance industry to police their their own business practices. To me that is the equivalent of the police in a  city like Oakland or Detroit telling the street corner coke, and heroin dealers “you guys be good, we will trust you to to do the right thing”. So corporations did the same thing as that street corner drug slinger does, make as much money as fast as you can. What B.S. Look where the United States is today. We are in a financial tsunami and drug dealers are still prospering.   

Governments that do not conduct business in accordance to the desires of the majority of its citizens are called dictatorships. Throughout history all powerful governments maintained their power from their ability to tax their citizens. Tax revenues allowed governments to maintain soldiers and militias to enforce tax collection and to punish non-conformers. Taxes funded practically all of the colonial expeditions throughout the whole world.  The collection of taxes resulted in countries being able to conquer other countries and their indigenous people and confiscate their natural resources. What a country does with the taxes it collects can have a profound effect on its citizens and a huge impact on the global community.

In America, our citizens have lost any control over how our tax dollars are being distributed by our government. Our past administration decided that we would find Osama Bin Laden and also attack any country that would harbor him or any other terrorist that would cause harm to Americans.  So we attacked Iraq. President Bush decided that billions of tax payor dollars should be spent on a project that the majority of Americans oppose. The President’s resolve should be commended. However his motives were unclear to me. In my world I look at how many children are becoming diabetic in America. I remember a skyway falling during commute hours in downtown Milwaukee and cars with people falling into the river below. I recall a President that does not believe the weather is changing on our planet even though weather has become extremely dangerous for humans all over the world. I recall outbreaks of E-Coli and salmonella bacteria on our food distribution system while the past Administration cut funding for the FDA causing the firing of food inspectors. I recall how our taxes have been redistributed upwards to a certain population and not to the needs of the majority of the people of the United States.  I look at people losing all their net worth because of serious illness and no health insurance. Many times they die. Our government could have a huge positive effect on the quality of life for millions of Americans if we would demand it. Instead, many people don’t want to see any changes. I wonder why? The quality of life for most Americans would be improved by a more prudent distribution and use of tax dollars. I’m not talking about socialism, just plain  old fashioned democracy.

How many billions of dollars spent on a questionable war in Iraq would it have taken to possibly come close or find a cure for diabetes? Now is the time for government to be big. The past eight years it has been very small. Our government is for the people by the people and we should have a say as to where are tax dollars are spent. Why are all of a sudden, so many states are going broke? Money exists in our society, but where is it? I hope Americans give the new President a chance to make some fundamental changes in the D.C. status quo. The President wants to represent everyone. The representations that I am fundamentally  concerned about are not only our President’s words, but how he treats our dollars.

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