Are you tired of your home or business insurance escalating faster than your paycheck? Or that you can't afford to heat your home or drive your car? Are you frustrated that your representatives vote lock-step with their party regardless if they're in agreement or not?
Are you outraged that we no longer have any checks and balances; no more oversight; no one watching to safeguard our rights? Does it rile you that the men and women we voted into office signed away our civil liberties without even reading the documents they were signing?
Are you livid with the doublespeak of your representatives? Do you wish you could hang some of them by the you know what's? Are you screaming mad at the obvious manipulation of gasoline prices? Does it upset you that more than 40-million men, women and children can't afford medical care and have no insurance?
Does it irritate you that college is no longer affordable and that low-cost school loans are memories of the past? Does it exasperate you that pre-emptive action has replaced diplomacy? Does it bother you that nothing you said or did made one iota of a difference in the eyes and ears of our president and our legislators? Are you incensed that the corporate entity has become the ruler of the land?
Do you sometimes fantasize about arresting the son of a gun who decided it was okay to keep the child abuser, wife-beater, graft-taking, unresponsive, irresponsible, out-of-touch with reality legislator in office?
Are you disgusted that as a nation we now stand for torture, and dissolved the law of Habeas Corpus? Does it sicken you that we've replaced dignity with abusive use of power, or that we've allowed our principles that set us apart to completely disintegrate?
Does it turn your stomach that instead of using our intelligence and vision to secure a better future for humanity that all of our tax dollars earmarked for research and development are squandered by the whim of the military industrial complex in securing a better bomb of destruction?
Does it concern you that our language has been diminished by the use of meaningless words and expressions? Does it baffle your mind that we have accepted lies as truth; that we have permitted historical revisions as fact?
Are you enraged that we've devolved from a highly educated populace to among the lowest in the world? Or that the average American employee works more hours, with less pay and less time off than any other powerful nation?
Does it infuriate you that our legislators argue over stem cell research, the meaning of marriage, and the right of woman to determine what's right for her body and her life? Or that they've separated us and defined us as either red or blue rather than fostering our commonalities?
Are you rankled by the notion that our forefathers' standard of separation of church and state has become null and void? Are you shocked that in our land of the free you've become fearful of speaking your mind when you disagree with the sentiment that "You're either with us or with the terrorists"?
Does it get your gall that homelessness and destitution exists in our land? Or that our natural resources are declining with such ravenous acceleration that we may see the demise in our lifetimes? Does it bother you that precious animals will become extinct without any regret or action to save them or that drinkable water may soon be more valuable than gold?
Does it disturb you that the real threat of global warming is ignored by our elected officials? Does it concern you that FEMA, Homeland Security, CIA, FBI are monoliths of inadequacy?
Does it gnaw at your gut that Social Security is held in the balance dangerously teetering at the fancy of our elected representatives? Or that millions of citizens are at risk of having no financial security in their elder years?
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