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Focus on what’s going wrong in United States
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Dec. 11, 2009 11:49 pm
Our first big problem is our country's willingness to inject itself in everything going on somewhere else in the world, but to hell with what's going on right here in America. Every conflict we have put ourselves into since World War II has not gained or changed one darn thing. If we would invest the money we have wasted trying to get the world to do and see things our way, we could have changed a lot of things here that really need addressing.
Bring the soldiers home and put them on the borders. If we don't win the illegal immigrant war, the rest won't matter.
Corporate America is running over the American dream with the help of a government that doesn't seem to care. There are few living-wage jobs left in manufacturing and production fields anymore, temp agencies do not pay a living wage and most jobs begin as temp jobs; this is wrong.
I call on every voting American to forget party loyalty and vote to clean house. The only way to put the working person back in the picture of what matters is to run elections as lotteries and kick the professional politician to the curb.
Randy Filling
Toddville
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