Americans are angry! They are also
frightened!
What might they be angry about? What might they be frightened of?
Their anger and fear is
being created by some or all of the following:
FINANCIAL - This broad category contains the following elements:
. Lost jobs
. Low Wages
. Lost Health Care
. Health Care Too Expensive to
Buy
. Other Lost Benefits including Pensions
. Lost savings; reduced 401K
. Inability to pay for college
. Inability to help your aging parents
. Inability to help adult children on
tough times
. Their own future financial security
. Their Social Security & Medicare
.
Their Home being foreclosed
. Others
SAFETY & SECURITY - This category contains the following:
. Crime in our streets
. Terrorism
. Extremism
. Wars
. General National Defense
. Others
POLITICAL - Items to include in this category are:
.
Severe partisan politics
. Government Intrusion
. Insufficient Government
Involvement
. Government Spending
. Socialism
. Minorities
. Legal and Illegal Aliens
. Government Bail Outs
. Others
Looking at the above items,
it seems they all fit very nicely in specific categories.
However, we all know things are not that simple! These subjects jump and
move from group to group and category to category. One time they may be financial; at another time the same item
is political.
That is bad enough!
Making this entire situation much worse
are the external influences.
These influences include:
. our politicians and their focus
on their own self interests;
. elements in our political system that no longer work. We need term
limits for all members of Congress; the Senate and the House.
. severe inequities that have crept into our lives;
.
corporations that have lost their moral compass;
. religious beliefs creeping into our
public policies;
. news media lacking any sense of responsibility for their
comments and actions;
. pundits creating and capitalizing on this public fear and
anger;
