Dobbs: Bush, Congress tell working folk to go to hell

Dobbs: Bush, Congress tell working folk to go to hell
By Lou Dobbs
CNN



Wednesday, May 24, 2006 Posted: 1502 GMT (2302 HKT)

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- President Bush says that the installation of the new Iraqi government was a "watershed event," but at the same time warns Americans of the challenges and loss as we continue to prosecute the war against Iraqi insurgents. Sen. Harry Reid declares that legislation that would render English the national language is racist.

Thirty-seven Democrats vote for full amnesty for all illegal aliens in this country, even though nobody really knows whether the number is 11 million, 12 million or 20 million. The Senate Republican leadership demands that a "comprehensive immigration reform" plan must be passed before this Memorial Day weekend. And the president signs into law a tax cut that raises taxes on the educational funds of teenagers saving for college.

Never before in our country's history have both the president and Congress been so out of touch with most Americans. Never before have so few of our elected officials and corporate leaders been less willing to commit to the national interest. And never before has our nation's largest constituent group -- some 200 million middle-class Americans -- been without representation in our nation's capital.

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I like the old saw about Nero fiddling while Rome burned as an apt comparison. From the POTUS on down the pol's in D.C. don't care what American voters want or need. It appears that the pol's believe they know best what needs done and how to do it. Folks this is not how this nation is suppose to be run, but it is a harbinger of the future. This is going to get worse and worse unless the pol's & business and reined in and reined in hard.

We have gone in less than a generation in this nation from a republic to an oligarchical government, run by business magnates with the contrivance of the pol's. We have to take the nation back and that is a daunting task as there is so much that has been lost. Item one on the agenda is to throw out all the old establishment pol's from both party's and start over with fresh people who are beholden to no on but the voters.

I'm very pessimistic about the future of this nation as I don't believe the American people have the stomach for the fight.