Same old "choices"
Years ago, during a presidential election campaign, candidate Ross Perot warned Americans about government trade policies (NAFTA) that would produce a "giant sucking sound" of jobs leaving the country.
The American people ignored it and, as usual, went on to vote for Democrat and Republican candidates who've fulfilled his predictions. A so-called conservative Republican Congress, with some Democratic help, passed the bill and a Democrat President signed it.
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Now here we are again! The same old offerings of "choices" between insiders by both parties and the obliging media who know that there will be no real changes once either of them regain or retain power. That media also narrowing our choices by lack of coverage to almost anyone who would be a better candidate; that media choosing to focus on the usual bunch who have
no intention of changing the status quo. The lone exception---Ron Paul. Of course, he's kept almost off the radar screen.
The following statement by a columnist helps to clear things up about our two major parties.
"Socialism needs two legs on which to stand; a right and a left. While appearing to be in complete opposition to one another, they both march in the same direction."-- Paul Proctor
When will we realize that both major parties are taking us for all we're worth which isn't going to be much in short order. Where are our good paying jobs going? Who decided we needed a "global economy" which has decimated the American worker? Who said we should be a service economy instead of an industrial one which was the reason we became a prosperous
nation? Why are those who continue to make bad policies deemed worthy of the reward of returning to office to do more damage?
George Kann
Manchester Township
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