SHARED FROM
“The American people are scared, and I don’t blame them.” – U.S. Sen. Harry Reid (D, NV), Thursday morning, regarding the impending shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.
No, Senator Reid. We are not afraid. We are too disgusted to be afraid.
The TRUTH will set you FREE.
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SATURDAY, 28 FEBRUARY 2015
Homeland Security Funding: You Got This One Wrong, Senator Reid
No, Senator Reid. We are not scared. What we are is disgusted. On so many levels. And not just by Republican absolutists.
We are disgusted because we do the jobs we are hired and paid to do, but Congress does not.
We are disgusted because members of Congress routinely hold hostage the American people’s needs, and play games of brinkmanship without regard to the morale of the government employees whose jobs hang in the balance. Even when those people have those jobs to keep all of us safe.
We are disgusted because Congress is filled with payola-taking, temper-tantrum-throwing, self-absorbed babies who demand regular infusions of pablum from their fat-cat owners, pablum they then regurgitate down the backs of the rest of us.
We are disgusted because Congress is filled with payola-taking, temper-tantrum-throwing, self-absorbed babies who demand regular infusions of pablum from their fat-cat owners, pablum they then regurgitate down the backs of the rest of us.
We are disgusted because Congress is filled with payola-taking, temper-tantrum-throwing, self-absorbed babies who demand regular infusions of pablum from their fat-cat owners, pablum they then regurgitate down the backs of the rest of us.
We are disgusted by members of Congress who seem to think they are in Washington to gratify their own egos and increase their own wealth, prestige, and marketability among corporokleptocrats and banksters while ice caps melt, superstorms become the norm, and sea levels rise.
We are even a little disgusted because Congress has never changed the name of the Department of Homeland Security, which is just as creepy to American ears as the German Fatherland or the Russian Motherland.
And we are really disgusted with the hypocrisy that knows no bounds, telling us how afraid we are supposed to be of ISIL, how afraid we are supposed to be of Al-Quaida, how afraid we are supposed to be of Boko Haram, how afraid we are supposed to be of Iran, how afraid we are supposed to be of North Korea, how afraid we are supposed to be of Central American children at the border, how afraid we are supposed to be of Mexicans, how afraid we are supposed to be of people voting, and, basically, how afraid we are supposed to be of people in general.
Yet the Congress who holds the purse strings won’t fund the jobs of the specific people who are supposed to protect us from all the other people we are supposed to be afraid of.
No, Senator Reid. We are not afraid. We are too disgusted to be afraid.
It is the pampered, insulated, parsing, equivocating, puppeteering, bloviating, corporate-serving, science-denying, influence-hoarding, money-grabbing, austerity-loving, self-styled power elite that needs to be afraid. Of us.
Larry Wines
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