Where is the honor in our elected leaders? For that matter, where is honor in the electorate?
Our elected officials mirror what they see in us. What they see is: forget honor, give me mine, and then I will complain about what others get.
Our elected leaders know very well what it will take to get our once great country back to what it was designed by our founders to be. But, they are no better than us, so we have a country of spoiled brats.
We were designed to be free, responsible and honorable. Instead, we have become greedy, sneaky and dishonorable.
Neither side (Dems or Repubs) has the honor or character to tell us what we all know is the truth. We have not learned from the great failures in history. We keep the masses ignorant and ply them with lies and bad press.
Not hearing the truth, we remain with our bad choices and search for someone or something to blame for our problems.
Our country is being destroyed by us, not politicians, because we are the ultimate deciders. We decided wrongly and our country is burning as surely as Rome burned and for the same reasons.
Class warfare has never worked. All it accomplishes is chaos.
The saving grace is that after great strife our world will right itself and just maybe we will have really learned and honor will be back.
Our president is not to blame. We are.
Too bad.
Jack Tetreault, Lewiston
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Jack...is this a surprise to people....after all it is...
"We the People"
A majority of voters put them there, many not bothering to do the basic research into their records, values and beliefs; then complain when the act the way they do and vote the way they do.
Look at the backgrounds of those in this administration, and you will see things with better clarity; they are doing business as is their usual. The focus on the redistribution of weath and moving toward socialism; a system that has mostly failed worldwide.
Some don't even seem to care about how they conduct their personal lives, overlooking serious moral and ethical concerns. Somehow assuming they can separate their personal decision making processes from their public service decision making processes.
Yes, we are to blame for electing then re-electing those who feel that redistribution of wealth is a pathway to prosperity.
The demonization of those who produce in America; by insinuating that they did not earn their success or earned it at the expense of others. Many people would never dream of putting in the hours it takes to run a successful business, while complaining about the success of those who do and wanting to pick their pockets deeper and deeper.
We are still a relatively young nation, maybe this is just growing pains.
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Exactly why I keep saying: Better Living Through Smaller Government.
Let’s take the corruption out of government by taking the money out of government and keeping it on our own pockets where it rightfully belongs.
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