Raymond Ponzini

"When once a republic is corrupted there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principle." - Thomas Jefferson

Do you believe in freedom from the corporations and the banks or do you want to be ruled by them, because right now we are ruled by them and no longer have a government of by and for the people.

Jimmy Carter called it the ‘misery index’. The government has a way of measuring how much misery is caused for the people by corporate and government greed and exploitation. The more our government allows corporations to heap on the people’s backs the more their suffering is heightened. Years of unbridled corporate greed and government corruption have weakened our democracy and made it susceptible to political sickness from within.

The cure is simple yet radical. America must change back to what it was in the days of President Kennedy. The government has to start governing again and stop serving as lackeys to the bankers. America needs to reign in the corporations and get them off the people’s backs. America needs to close down all overseas manufacturing and reopen our own factories again and start employing the millions of Americans who lost their jobs due to corporate outsourcing and political corruption.

The volume of the changes, improvements, and restorations is tremendous because the damage was done over a hundred years of rule by Wall Street and the corporations. There is little time left, if we are to avoid fascism, the merging of state and corporate power, which will destroy both our freedom and our quality of life. Our political system in partnership with the corporate super-rich have gradually removed our liberties, human rights, and our country. We have evolved into a perversion of the freedom and human dignity that we once stood for. Now America tortures, keeps secret (no fly) lists, and tazers children and the elderly. Our government no longer serves, but terrorizes us and sells us in debt bondage to foreign nations.

Our congress does not truly serve the people when they spend most of their time debating and voting on bills that are written by and for corporations. The purpose of these bills is always to increase the profits of corporations and to decrease the freedom of the people. With each bill that is passed we become further enslaved and the corporations become more powerful. It isn't difficult to foresee where this American system of government will lead. The America of the future will be a corporate hell world where all people are prisoners and slaves who live and die at the behest of the corporate. Freedom, human rights, and human dignity are costly to corporate profits and will eventually be removed.

The Tea Party movement is a reaction, like a societal sickness, a discontent. The people are frustrated and they understand that something has gone very wrong. Tragically The Tea Party has been infiltrated and co-opted by the corporations and the super rich. They offer nothing new and only more of the same misery, greed, and exploitation. This is what the people can expect from their trusted elected guardians, those chosen to protect and serve them.

Now has come the moment when the so-called leaders must actually lead. They must do what is right and what is best for their country which is the majority of the people and not the super rich, or the banks, and not the military industrial corporations. Because should they fail to lead wisely at this late hour, the America of our forefathers will cease to exist and the America we shall soon see will be a third world hell where most do not have enough to eat.

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By Raymond Ponzini