Bleeding America Dry

In our country, different states are arguing about water rights. Corporations and companies use up the water supply and disperse chemicals into it. Farmers need it but they also help destroy it with chemicals. Corporate hog farms dump feces into it.
Our food used to be grown in our own country. Now we import most of it from other countries.
It is the same with other products. We no longer manufacture much of anything of importance. Foreign companies have bought and own most of our plants and operate them but send the money to their country.
Our big companies have moved their plants to other countries to increase their profits. They hire workers very cheap and do not pay any benefits. Then they import these products to our country. Do we see a cheaper price because of this? No, prices never dropped. But corporate earning skyrocketed. They keep increasing the price of these goods, not to compensate for their investments, but to increase their profits and stock increase the value of their stocks. The stock market keeps closing at historical record highs. This benefits the rich, the stockholders, corporations, and foreign investors. However, it is killing the American middle class who have to pay for these profits.
Bush was talking about how good the economy is, how many jobs have been created, and just how hunky dory things are, under his administration.
That is horseshit. We have hungry people in our own country. The rich are richer, but the poor are poorer, and the middle class in struggling to make ends meet while they support the rich.
I am lucky. I work everyday in a profession that I have always loved. I also earn good money; at least to me it is good money. I suppose it would be a joke to some of our politicians. However, I am in debt also and I give up much of it to provide the government their pork and to support these criminals that run things, not to mention all these other countries thatwe bribe.
Recently, bush vetoed a bill to provide healthcare for poor children. Why did he do that? I would be glad that some of the money they steal from me goes to something useful. But immediately after, he promises billions of dollars to Afghanistan.
Our government supports the world. That means that we, the citizen are supporting the world. Bush, congress, corporate America do not support anyone. They take and redistribute. That is all they do.
Food and Water are the great equalizers. Around the world, people in poorer nations realize and fight this problem every day. Some starve and some die of thirst. That is terrible, but it is the way of things. I used to live on Lake Lanier in Georgia in the 1990s. It was very large and very pretty. I loved it. This morning I saw some pictures on TV of it. They are projecting that in 3 months it will be dry. How did that happen?
In the future, I see thirst and hunger spreading worldwide. Hmmm, guess the future is here, we do not see it in America yet as much yet.
What will cause more wars than oil though, is water. Without oil, things would change so drastically; without water, we die quickly.
Most of our food comes from countries that do not have regulations on what is safe or clean. By watching the news you can see that. We cannot control how they produce or store that food. We do have laws regulating imports. But the corporations have convinced the government from holding off on enforcing them. That is not a guess on my part, it is a fact. They are not scheduled for enforcement until next year. What’s with that? I guess that would hurt their pocket book.
I am 57 years old; I survived the 60s, Viet Nam, and my own stupidity. However, I can see that myself and the rest of you will not survive the idiots we have running the government and the corporations that milk us for as much as they thing they can get.
My children and my grandchildren will have to tolerate a level of existence that I never had to experience.
I am sorry kids, I did not know when I was younger, and I do not know what to do now.
All I have is a vote, and that is not enough.