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Health & Fitness

What Will It Take?

Where are the politicians?

How unusual that a 5.9 earthquake would shake Washington when most, if not all, of the politicians including the president were out of town. Not that I wish any of them harm, it's just that they seem to be exempt from everything they decide for the rest of us and now even from the dangers of nature itself. 

With the economy still in trouble and more and more people struggling to get by, it is offensive to me that these overpaid egomaniacs can be so smug.

If my company had a crisis that called for my immediate attention, I know that my boss would be more than a little upset with me if I asked for time off. And in fact, I am pretty sure that no one who did that would have a job when they returned. But when you are your own boss and the rest of the guys you work with have the same attitude, it's easy to see how this could happen. 

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George Carlin said it best: "If progress means to move forward ... then what does Congress mean?" Exactly! 

The people who elected these knuckleheads can't take a trip to Berwyn, but that doesn't seem to stop politicians from taking expensive vacations. Kids are being shot by the hundreds, but none of them are politicians' kids so they don't care. Every day American senior citizens are having to decide whether to buy food or medication, but politicians have an amazing medical plan and can go to any hospital they want on our dime. Something is drastically wrong here. 

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We elect them, they destroy us, we look to them for leadership, they follow the lobbyists and corporate fat cats, we pray to God for their safety and guidance, they send our kids off to war. Sound familiar? It should. Think England, circa 1776. 

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