| Indeed, I'm not sure about you, but when I grew up | | | | Who can we blame? |
| I was always told that our government was honest, | | | | First, we need to blame ourselves for believing this |
| and that we could trust our banks and our judges. I | | | | nonsense. I've come to the realization that we've |
| assumed that we could believe our teachers, our | | | | been lied to, and we need to fix the problem, which |
| elders, our parents, and our mentors. Yes, I trusted | | | | starts in our own mirrors. You see, all the people in |
| my coaches in soccer and in track, and I know all my | | | | Washington DC and on Wall Street come from our |
| friends trusted their preachers at their church. The | | | | general population. And the problem is we have an |
| reality is we can't trust any of these people can we? | | | | unethical general population, no, not everyone, but a |
| And yet, we are expected as citizens to obey the | | | | large enough percentage, so we get dishonesty at |
| law, do what's right, pay our taxes, help others, work | | | | every level of government, and in every type of |
| hard, and raise our families to do the same. | | | | business transaction. |
| What's wrong with this picture? | | | | Next, we need to blame ourselves for believing |
| It's simple, a person who is really dishonest or | | | | every new politician that pushes on a podium or |
| unethical can get absolutely filthy rich in Washington | | | | reads a Teleprompter when they tell us that they |
| DC or New York City. That's what we've learned. | | | | are somehow going to fix the system. They can't, |
| We've learned that priests can manipulate children in | | | | especially when they are there to manipulate the |
| their congregations, we've learned that our teachers | | | | system, as they have been doing all along to get into |
| and professors have lied to us, we've been sold a bill | | | | power the first place. |
| of goods when it comes to our history books, and | | | | We must stop sending people to Washington DC |
| now we see that our currency is a joke, the stock | | | | who are in cahoots with unethical bankers, and |
| market is manipulated and nothing more than a | | | | scoundrels on Wall Street. We need to send good |
| gambling casino for high frequency trading computer | | | | honest hard working people to Washington DC, and |
| systems; and that all of our politicians who promise | | | | that will keep the honest people on Wall Street |
| to help watch the system, are involved in an | | | | honest, so that the scoundrels on Wall Street stand |
| incestuous relationship of their own with big business, | | | | out like a sore Thumb, and we can catch them in the |
| Wall Street, and other unscrupulous players. | | | | act. |