Reply #24: "THE REPUBLICAN TRUST COMPANY" By Nancy Greggs [View All]

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"THE REPUBLICAN TRUST COMPANY" By Nancy Greggs


You said, “Trust us with your money.” You then proceeded to run up the largest debt in US history, largely spent on a useless unwinnable war, while cutting spending to education, health care, and social programs, as the nation’s infrastructure slowly rots.

You said, “Trust us with your soldiers.” You then sent our troops into combat without sufficient equipment for their personal safety, without a strategy or an exit plan, and gutted their pensions, their benefits and the programs they will need when they return to the country they have sacrificed so much for.

You said, “Trust us with your health.” You then handed the pharmaceutical industry a financial windfall, as millions of Americans, many of them seniors, go without medication they now cannot afford. To date, not a single comprehensive health care plan for all citizens has been seriously discussed, no less implemented – except, of course, your own.

You said, “Trust us with your security.” You then fought the establishment of the 9-11 Commission tooth-and-nail, and are still fighting the implementation of its recommendations to keep the country safe. As you line us up at airports and confiscate our shampoo in a total charade of protecting us, you inflame and incite to violence the very people you encourage us to fear.

You said, “Trust us with your well-being.” You then stood by and did nothing while your fellow citizens in New Orleans begged for help, and exercised no oversight while the money earmarked to rebuild their city and their lives was stuffed into the pockets of thieves parading as honest tradesmen and organizations.

You said, “Trust us with your way of life.” You then encouraged the outsourcing of our jobs, destroyed our economy, and plunged millions of citizens into poverty and homelessness. You have attempted, at every turn, to restrict our ability to make a better life for ourselves, and our children. For many, you have made attaining the 'American Dream' just a bitter joke.

You said, “Trust us with your country.” You then allowed big business to pollute our air, foul our water sources, plunder our forests and destroy the natural beauty of our land for the sake of their bottom line.

You said, “Trust us with your government.” You then turned our government into a personal piggy-bank for administration cronies, a means to subvert every moral and upstanding thing our country ever stood for, a cesspool of corruption where money-laundering, bribe-taking and back-room deals brokered to the detriment of the populace are things to be applauded and admired rather than investigated and prosecuted.

You said, “Trust us with your freedoms.” You then lost no time in stripping those freedoms away. You bowed low to your political masters and groveled at their feet in abject silence as they broke the law, ignored the Constitution they swore to uphold, and usurped powers not rightfully theirs. You didn’t even have the moral rectitude to draw the line at something as reprehensible as the use of torture.

I believe that is a more than fair summary of what has been promised, and then accomplished, by the Republican Party in the past six years.

Have I forgotten anything – perhaps “trust us with your children”?

You are now on notice.

We, the People, will take this country back – make no mistake about it. We will fight your corruption, your lies, your spinelessness, your immorality, your greed, and your out-and-out treason against your nation and your fellow citizens.

We will do it. Trust us.

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