Ultimate Blame Game
02 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
in Life Tags: government shutdown, Minnesota, Politics
Congratulations, Minnesota, you are the only state this year to go into a shutdown. Thousands of helpless people are sitting here idly while those that were elected to lead our state into better times have, instead, caused it to fall apart. And all because fingers are being pointed, compromises are not even being considered let alone reached, and each party refuses to talk to the other. Hello kindergarden….
With elections just a year away, I think many of us are just thinking to ourselves, “one more year. We just have to survive one more year ,then we can change who is in charge.” But, as the past days, weeks, months have shown…I don’t think we have time to wait. The government shutdown happened because each side thought the other would give in order to avoid the shutdown, and so instead of meeting and talking Gov. Dayton and the Republican-led Minnesota legislature played a sort of Russian Roulette game with the lives of those who are dependent upon them…trusted them…believed them when they said they would lead Minnesota to a better future. Right…
Personally, I am sick of waiting for our leaders to get their game together, both at the state and national levels. Our country is so incredibly divided right now that we don’t even deserve to have the term “united” in our name. At this point, it is not one party’s fault or one party’s victory. When the country as a whole fails, both parties have failed miserably. Yet here we are, watching daily news reports of issues that aren’t being discussed, hearing contradicting reports on when troops are going to be brought home, boasts of supposed accomplishments and loads upon loads of blame being placed upon the shoulders of everyone out there.
Politicians need to stop thinking like politicians and start acting like plain old citizens….the people that our founding fathers based their principles on and for. The status quo is not working and it hasn’t for quite some time. And I don’t think anything will change until we, the citizens of the “United” States of America, take a bigger stand in issues that affect our daily lives. Until we have our say in issues that are being decided for us, simply because those that were elected by us to lead have decided that means they have complete, 100% control over our lives, nothing will change. Don’t twist my words-we need a government in place and the United States did not get to be the powerhouse it is (was?) without the established democracy that we are. But I think we as citizens have lost our say and need to stand up again and demand that our leaders listen to our issues…the issues that they based their platform on and then have ignored once elected. We elected them. We pay their salary. They work for us.
Until then,
B
