VIEWPOINT:

U.S. Government Policy: Going Down For The Third Time

Neither Republicans nor Democrats Deserve the Presidency in 2008

In compromising with President Bush over increasing the war budget in Iraq, Democrats led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appear to have lost their determination and forgotten their promise to the people to refocus on this nation's internal priorities, leaving us little hope that the next four years will show an improvement in our overall quality of life.

While the majority of Americans are tired of the ongoing brutal war in Iraq and the endless spending of our tax dollars for that external commitment, our government persists in its obtuse objectives there, instead of working to ensure that all U.S. citizens have decent jobs and housing and quality affordable health care.

Our leaders appear more concerned with how to resolve issues related to illegal immigrants than in solving the urgent problems of our own legal residents, who have good reason to sense that they have become second-rate citizens in their own country.

With ongoing outsourcing of work, our leaders show that citizens are secondary to making it possible for the favored few to rake in large profits. Profiteering is everything. We are teaching our children to move away from community ideals and seek to get whatever they can for themselves. Is this the United States of America that our forefathers envisioned for future generations?

Pelosi and the Democrats have lost sight of American objectives. They talk a good game, but they have become part of the problem we are facing.

In truth, we have let our American representative democracy—designed and implemented to protect and to serve the majority of U.S. citizens—slip away. We have lost our way. We need to return to our previous, more noble path, and start out again. And we need to do that now, or we may never be able to do it again.