Simply Amazing

Hello everyone,

I find it simply amazing that once again, our leaders just don't know how to prioritze when it comes to the American people, particularly the homeless, poor and oppressed citizens of this country.

Just a few short days ago, our government, namely the leader of this country and his family, not to mention their respective entourages, set out for a public relations/lobbying trip to Finland. The purpose of this trip was to convince the International Olympic Committee to select Chicago as the site for the next summer olympiad.

Now, I have nothing against the city of Chicago or the state of Illinois for that matter, but I do take issue with the fact that once again, millions of tax payer dollars were spent for WHAT.....a chance to bring a few bucks into the greater Chicago area. Was this trip really going to benefit this country, perhaps from a publicity standpoint, it may have done so, perhaps not, however, would the total income derived from having olympic games in Chicago have benefited the jobless factory workers in Detroit? Would those who are losing their homes to foreclosure have been able to reap some of that money to save their households? Oh, let me guess, I'll bet that some of that money would have been donated to help the homeless. Sure it would have.....

Why on God's green earth do we continue to allow Washington to wrecklessly spend OUR money for the sake of publicity? How can we as Americans continue to tolerate wasteful spending in Washington while our citizens are suffering, starving, out of work, out of their homes and wondering why this country has abandoned them?

I will post another remark concerning this issue, but, in the meantime, I urge you all to open your eyes to what is happening in Washington, I urge you to stop and think for a moment as to where we are headed....I urge you to please post your comments, I need your help folks.....we need to help eachother, because,we are on a path of sure destruction at our own expense.

Thanks to you all as always, and let us pray together that Washington gets its act together and soon, because time is running out for all of us and we are on the verge of becoming nothing more than a third world country.

Just imagine how our forefathers would feel, if they could see what they worked so hard for, a FREE AMERICA, a land of opportunity, a land for everyone to enjoy, simply destroyed by our current brand of government....our so called "YES WE CAN" leaders just don't get it, they are more concerned with winning a bid for an olympic event that will only benefit the region that they are from, how pathetic, how sorry I am for us all....we need to take OUR country back and take it from the special interest groups that continue to puppeteer the puppets we seem to elect to public office.

God bless you all,

Ron Gauthier