Do You Trust Your Government?

While listening to an L.A. radio station this morning, the DJ's posed the question: "Do you trust your government?" My immediate thought was HELL NO! Here are just a few reasons why.

Did you know that our "war" in Iraq is costing us approximately $200,000,000 a day??? Did you know that some projections say that nearly 200,000 Hurricane Katrina victims may remain homeless for at least 3-5 years? Did you know that FEMA is telling thousands of Katrina victims to return their $2,000 emergency relief checks? Does this sound as crazy to you as it does to me? What the hell is going on with our government?

Based on census data, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama are, respectively, the first, second, and eighth poorest states in the nation. And of the 5.8 million individuals in these states who lived in the areas struck hardest by the hurricane, more than one million lived in poverty prior to the hurricane’s onset. Many of the storm’s victims have little or no resources on which to rely in these difficult times.

How the HELL does FEMA expect these people to give back $2000 NOW? Damn, I have a full time job and I would have a hard time scraping up two grand to give to the government!

It is absolutely mind boggling that these fools would even THINK to force people to "give back" what they don't have! These people have lost mothers, fathers, children, best friends, their homes, their jobs, EVERYTHING! What kind of world are we living in?

Did you know that seven months later, thousands of people are STILL living in tents (after being evacuated from hotels that the government will no longer pay for) when there are thousands of EMPTY mobile homes that are sitting around waiting to be assigned to families? The homes cost a whopping $431 million and are sitting in pastures, fully furnished and with nobody inhabiting them. Read full story here.

I personally am sick. Why the hell are we called a democracy when we really have no say in what goes on with the government and how they spend our hard earned tax dollars?

Hell NO I don't trust our government.

Do you trust our government? Do you know anyone who has suffered at the hands of Hurricane Katrina and the lack of help from our government in its aftermath?

Pray for Peace.

It is the duty of the patriot to protect their country from its government.
Thomas Paine