Working for America

[Mythsaje]

Millions of us get up five days a week and go to work, earning the money to sustain our lifestyles and contributing our 'fair share' of the money it takes to sustain our government and way of life.

In return, the government promises to protect us from criminals, be they domestic or foreign terrorists, protect our interests abroad, and defend our Constitutional and civil rights.

Except WE are doing our part...and the government isn't doing its part. It allows criminal enterprises masking themselves as corporations, and criminal enterprises inside its own very structure, to jeopardize our safety on a regular basis, and pay people to go on TV and lie to us about it.

We average citizens work hard in America, and do double duty to keep our society moving and growing. We produce American goods, provide services to other Americans, and spend our money to purchase goods and services provided by other Americans, paying taxes on not only the income we make, but the goods and services we purchase.

In return for this continual investment in America we are provided questionable protection from domestic criminals--being that the justice system ostensibly serves to punish people for wrong-doings AFTER THE FACT--(some "wrong-doings" themselves which people are punished for are in fact a matter for some debate, but that's another post), underfunded education that is continually failing to teach our children what they need to know to compete in an ever-changing world, and the services of a government that grows increasingly more concerned with serving the needs of corporate interests rather than seeing to the needs of the people.

For what we put into our society, in terms of labor, taxes, and consumer spending, we should be getting guaranteed healthcare, guaranteed education, honest and responsive public services, and a government we can trust.

It's not too much to ask.

We The People drive the twin engines of government and commerce. This is OUR country. Not Haliburton's. Neither is it Beoeing's Safeco's, or Citicorp's.

OURS.

WE THE PEOPLE.

For everything we do to keep this society going, we justly deserve at least a minimum level of security and prosperity, without feeling as though we stand on the brink of disaster at the hands of the first unexpected emergency that comes along. We deserve to see our children get an education that enables them to enter the world with all possible chance to succeed. Many schools and colleges already belong to us...we pay for them with our tax dollars. And because of the engine of commerce we drive with our work and consumption, we are entitled to the same opportunities to attend college that the children of the wealthy are afforded.

Those at the bottom invest as much of themselves, if not more, in keeping our society running as those at the top. Those at the top deserve to get no more than anyone else from the very government we all pay to support.

So why do they?

We have already earned the right to:

Healthcare for all Americans.

The best possible education for all Americans.

We're already paying for it.

All we ask is for them to give us what we're already paying for.

[NMMNG]

1. Oh yes, but

"We the people" don't make giant financial contributions to the BFEE and Rethuglican party as do the megacorporations. Therefore we don't get the tax cuts, special laws passed, and other gracious benefits that they do. Just another facet of life under our Compassionate Conservative government. :sarcasm:

[OneBlueSky]

2. on the issue of reclaiming citizen control over corporations . . .

you might want to check out this site . . .

http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/

[texpatriot2004]

3. This IS NOT the social contract I signed up for. nm