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It's time to wake up and realize what the government's doing without you watching.
EDITOR,
Years ago — too many to mention — Americans would question their leaders. When things didn’t go well, eyebrows were raised and changes were made, which is not the case today.
Today, the attitude is, "What can we do?" We’re only the public. America has become an everyone-for-themselves kind of country. And look what we’ve lost, not the least of which is the feeling of safety.
And then there’s the economy, which has collapsed right in line. You buy a house, but beware. The bank is going to own it soon.
It makes no sense for companies to build anything here. It’s not cost effective. So when you get your job and try to pay the bills, guess again. While you’re up at night, don’t ask your government why. Why don’t we make any products? The biggest product in the U.S. is the Big Mac, but don’t they import the meat? When will the intelligent Americans we’ve put in charge figure that out? Our government has become our problem.
Also, the war in Iraq is making members of our government rich beyond belief. If you don’t believe me, check your leaders’ incomes last year. Hey, it’s all investments, not to mention a whole lot of your tax dollars.
Our government needs a cleaning, and Americans need to pay attention. The game plans have been lost.
The war you’re paying for is the war that’s lining their pockets. The war that’s emptying your pockets is all a money-making ruse.
Matthew Reeves, Tracy
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NAFTA, WTO, GATT taking away our jobs and making slaves out of other people in the world in sweatshops. They bring back their finished goods to the US without paying tariffs that were designed to protect the American workers. The Chinese in return buy up our bonds to keep their currency low so we can keep up the cycle. The banking industry deregulated by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999
so commercial banking blew up into a bubble in the housing market.
Telecommunications Act that enabled large corporations of the communications and media industry to gobble up the market to make monopolies and destroy competition and enabled media consolidations. Everything has come to help corporations and the globalization of corporations and the concentrated power and wealth of the elite while the American citizen falls more and more into dept. We need to break this vicious cycle and demand that publically elected officials represent us the citizens and not the corporations!