The Rich Boys Club

2012 will be an interesting year. Not only will the Mayan calendar come to a close, some think this will signal in the end of the world.  I am not one of those believers however. Neither the less, this next year should prove to be a year of commercials for candidates running for office.  The big dance of course is for the presidency of the United States.  Here is a piece from the New York Times on how much the big dance cost one successful candidate.

As the 2012 campaign gets under way, there have been a lot of numbers thrown around. Some analysts believe that President Obama, who raised and spent about $750 million in the 2008 campaign, will come close to $1 billion this time around — a figure that senior White House officials dispute.

(that is only one candidate, what about the money each Republican is spending running for their party's nomination. How much are they spending individually even before they get the vote to be the nominee to represent their party on election day?)

Now you know why I have titled this entry "The Rich Boys Club." When I was growing up there was a philosophy among parents of that generation that believed that anyone can grow up to become president. Today, I am not so sure that is possible, unless you become rich first. Many would say, that is the cost of freedom, and there is no way around this expensive ordeal of the political office. 

Sure there is.  You limit the amount of money any political candidate spends on advertising, and campaign expenses.  It would be a joy to watch TV next year without all the political slander. Of course no one wants to do that, because they want to win.  There was a government philosophy by our early forefathers who said, "a democracy is a government for the people, by the people" but even that is questionable when it come to politics today.  How can a person even consider running for office unless you had powerful people in high places and very rich friends to help you. One person said to me once,  "people who run for president are the brightest because they have money."  Well, as we have seen in the past couple of decades or more, presidents haven't been the brightest bulbs, but it's true they all had money.

Our government is messed up, and part of the problem is that we elect people from one class of people. Rarely does a middle class person get elected, and even if they do, by the time they are out of office, they have made enough money from being in office to retire comfortably.  They can get insider trading tips on investment opportunities because they are in government and act upon them without penalty of the law.  If the same insider trading tips were given to any wall street broker, that broker would go to jail.  Gosh, you have to love those who make our laws.

I am sorry, but I can't stomach most of these Country Club types running for president on either side of the aisle.  Where is housewife Susie, or plumber Joe, where are the small  business owners who will go broke when Obama Care fully becames enacted?  Where is this government by the people for the people?  There is no millionaire running for president who understands the plight of the unemployed, or the struggle it takes to bring groceries home.  How many people now serving in these high elected positions lost their homes to foreclosure? Gee, even if they lost one, they had a few others they could live in. 

Give me a break America.  I will tell you one thing.  If you were to fire every politican in Washington today, and elect a cross section of American's other classes, you would find a different country overnight. 

Washington needs a fire hose, to sanitize the corrupt bureaucracy that has held this country capture for decades, and we Americans are to blame. We go to the polls and elect the same bimbos year after year after year. 

I am not for entitlements, for either the poor or the rich....so let's get on with getting a government that looks more like the 300 million of us. Money is the root of all evil, and there are some deep roots in Washington. Jesus said you can't serve too masters, and guess what He was right and he wasn't only referring to individuals, it also applies to governments.  

Just keeping it honest and truthful. ...K