ACORN

[xoxoxoBruce]

As long as I can remember, there have been articles in the paper, or things on TV, pointing to the federal government spending huge sums of tax money on things like studying the sex life of fruit flies, aiding foreign governments, and making life easy for some very rich, or very poor, people. This leads to a pent up frustration in the working class, who feel they have no control over their lives, or their government. Even more so, since the oil embargo of the early 70s, and subsequent blatant corruption of Congress with corporate money. That feeling of helplessness made people grumble, but most were living a fairly good life if they kept their head down, and kept plodding.

Along comes the TEA party, and people say, hooray, finally an chance to vent my frustration, an avenue for changing all this shit that's wrong, a chance to take back the Congress from the corporate pigs. But frustration doesn't lead to real change without organization. Unfortunately, some clever charlatans saw this opportunity to take the lead, feed the frustration with piles of bullshit, and turn the TEA party into another political tool, without most of these good people even knowing they'd been had.

Taking back control of the government, is only possible when people get involved at the local level, and clean up the government from the bottom up. It wouldn't be easy, it wouldn't be fast, but it's the only way to defeat big money for control of the future. Just voting won't do it, when someone else is controlling your choices.