[reelapeelin]

It's not political...it's common sense immorality manifesting itself as GREED...politics was left behind MILES ago...

If you wanna catch an animal, you put out it's favorite thing to eat...and you can put it most anywhere; he'll follow the scent and find it.

If you want to catch a politician you put out the money and he/she will follow it where ever the money goes...if it goes to China, he'll follow it to China...Tiawan, he'll go there...just leave a money trail...

Our government officials on both sides of the aisle are as guilty as hell for what they have done to the manufacturing and trade practices this country once lead the world in. Why? Because they got personally rich taking money from people it benefited..like a rudder thru the water...where ever it steers 'em, there they go...it does not matter if yer talkin' left, right, conservative, liberal, blue or red...there may be a small handful of abstaining individuals, but the majority are on the take...they DO NOT CARE ABOUT US...they follow the money and only the money...and it's lead to the Tea Party taking to the streets and the Occupy movement taking to the streets...for different ideologies, but spurred by the same cause...Government GONE WRONG...our laws and regulations over the last several decades have been written by influence peddlers and enacted by the politicians those peddlers paid for. For anybody who thinks pulling a straight ticket one way or the other will even begin to fix it, that belief in itself is part of the problem...Charlie is exactly right...it's been going on far too long to point at individuals and say it's his fault or her fault or the fault of one party or the other...the problem is systemic throughout government...on a federal level, sate level and local...until we quit partisan bickering which keeps us DIVIDED and get together as one voice that says; IT STOPS NOW!...it will continue on...they do not care about us, this country, right, wrong or what's good for us...they draft legislation and pass regulation that benefits THEIR bottom line...and we take it up the chute in all the ways Charlie started this thread off with.
I've probably lost most of you by now, but Charlie's fears about our children are well founded...and partisan politics will keep our attention diverted from the REAL PROBLEM as long as we let it...