I will no longer be working for any election.
I served my nation in the US Navy from my 17th birthday in 1955 until I was 21. I have always believed that our nation would always be the greatest place a person could live and if we had not lost our through our elected people in Washington selling us out it could have stayed that place I believed in.
I have worked to elect Democrats every election since JFK in 1960. Since LBJ I have seen nothing to indicate to me that the Democrats in the White House or the other Elected Officials in Washington really give a sh-t about the working man. Obama was the last one I walked the streets and worked the phones for and I will not do that again.
I am now 72 Yrs old and the wife and I have really been having to cut everything in order to get by and keep some kind of insurance coverage for her , she is 61, which is hard to do since she had breast cancer 7 years ago. Thank God, who I call my higher power, that she is cancer free so far although her cancer treatment has left her with a lot of other problems. Now we just have to pray that her health holds out for at least 5 years so that she can become vested and able to continue with the insurance with her new job.
It has now reached the point that we can not cut anymore and we are still falling short on enough to get by on. It has reached the point where one of us has to go back to work. I can't work now due to my heart condition along with other problems but God has once again smiled on us and My wife was just offered a position teaching again so we are trying to figure out how to come up with the money to move 600 miles away by Aug 1st so she can work.
Nothing either party in Washing has done has benefited us. After 50 years I am too disgusted and heart broken to muster up the energy or will to try anymore.
We the people in this country need to wake up and realize that no matter what Party a politician belongs to once they go to Washington they no longer represent the working class but become servants of wall street and the mega corporations. Until the people unite enough to demand the real change that we need nothing will ever really change.
Promises are just empty words without actions to back them up.
Today we are faced with the thought that the working class will not have the opportunity to build any real security for the after work years. The ability to do so has been declining consistently for the last 30 years. Yet while the working class future is getting bleaker and bleaker, the Wall Street moguls and the Corporate big shots are getting fatter and fatter bank accounts. All on the backs of the class that has been the backbone of this nation.
We have in my opinion reached the point where it higher unlikely the tide can ever be turned. Washing is owned by the fat cats and they will never give it back to the people. We will never have enough money to push them out. It is even worse now that the Corporations can spend unlimited funds to buy or elect people who serve their cause instead of representing us.
Sad state of affairs and I never thought that my country would become what it is today.
I really feel for those who are going to see their future get even dimmer than it is today.
Sorry about the rant but I have had it. I can no longer sing the praises of a party that has sold all of us out.
I realize that their are a handful of officials in Washington who really do care about the people but the number is so small and getting smaller at each election.
Wish I was wrong.
Peace
Eaglecries