Orwell's Inspiration ... The G.O.P.
by Jon Faulkner

The meltdown of the U.S. Financial Industry, and its subsequent bailout by Congress, is a harbinger of a future when corporate forces will control the world’s resources and use them to control populations. Never, in U.S. history, have the People’s Representatives been so brazenly disloyal to their sworn pledge to hold the people’s interests above all others.

Congressional loyalty, with its constitutional oath of office, is today a quaint reminder of a bygone age. There was a time when Congressional Representatives were honored to stand up for their districts, their neighbors. Today‘s Congress is emptying the National Treasury. Dignity, honor, the truth be damned. Congress works for the ones who pay them. The people don't have enough money to expect their representatives to care about them.

That so many Americans regard today’s congressional debate as legitimate, speaks volumes. It should never occur to the financial sector to ask for money from taxpaying, honest Americans, and if Congress is asked, it should regard such a notion as laughable, or horrifying, depending on point of view. Such are the times.

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