Agenda

There are a lot of scary filthy disgusting words in our version of the English language. In my opinion the scariest, most disgusting one is: agenda. When a government, a corporation, the military, or a rich powerful man has an agenda, anything that bars its accomplishment will be thoroughly destroyed; whether it is a man, a company, a politician, a country, or a whole race of people. Here are just a few sinister examples of what I mean. When the government of the United States wanted to expand westward and the indigenous Indians were an obstacle, they were displaced or destroyed. First they were demonized in the eyes of the US citizens. They were deemed savages lower than dogs so we could easily destroy them without any pangs of conscious or remorse. Our sympathetic passion as a nation did not apply to the American Indian, for he was in the way of our country's agenda.

A more recent example of a zealous agenda is when President George W. Bush, the industrial military complex, and the big oil companies' eyes fell on Iraq. They painted a picture of this insane despot with his fingers on the button of weapons of mass destruction. It did not matter that our scientists that were there to look for weapons of mass destruction said that Iraq had none. It did not matter that a few brave individuals in our own CIA said he did not have any weapons of mass destruction. It did not matter that he destroyed all of his weapons of mass destruction at our request. What matters was the agenda. For the big oil companies it was the black gold (oil). For the industrial military complex it was the use of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of military hardware that would have to be replaced by us the taxpayers. The agenda for George W was to please his two major contributors and please his right-wing supporters with their favorite sport, better than football (WAR!!). And last but far from least in the demented mind of our 43rd president, it was to avenge and out-do what Daddy Bush started in the first Iraq war.

When these three agendas were put into motion the cost in monies and lives was obscene. We lost our way as a civil nation. We lost our surplus finances. We lost our brave men and women who rush so gallantly to defend us. We lost our dignity and we lost our minds. The most current agenda that has America on a path to chaos is that of the top richest 1% of our society: the politicians that they own and the supreme court who believe that all men are not created equal and should not be treated equally. The Supreme Court ruled that a corporation is an individual and can contribute large sums of money to all political races. They have the rights of privacy of an individual citizen. They can afford and are now allowed to throw huge sums of money at the politician of their choosing. At the same time the Republicans, with the help of the courts, are gutting the power and financial strength of the unions: the working man's voice. The only force that could match the donating power of big oil, big banks, and big business. With this counterweight gone or severely wounded the candidates of right wing, no-rule big business would turn the honest profits of capitalism into obscene windfalls of unregulated monopolies that would throw fairness, safety, and the lives of American citizens to the wind for the sole sake of their bottom line.

So for the sake of us other 99% we must unite, vote, and speak out for what we believe in: equality for all and politicians that answer to the people, not to the dollar. Let's stop this agenda in its tracks or we will be pledging to a corporate seal and not the stars and stripes. We are an honest, compassionate, just, and great people that are following the rules of an immoral, insane, power hungry congress and we must stop them. We must save our beloved America. We must do it now because once they steal our freedom, our hopes and dreams are next!!

Stronger Today Than Yesterday,
TG

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