Economy and Jobs Recovery

Letter to AJC 6-2-2012


The anemic jobs recovery is a clear indication that we no longer live in a Representative Republic. Our economy and our government are held hostage by the whims and greed of large industrial complexes and unscrupulous financial institutions. They are driven to reward only the rich executives and shareholders and care nothing for the workers and their families.
Our political system is no longer "of the people for the people". We have been betrayed by Congress and the Supreme Court who have handed the reins of the Country over to lobbiests and corporations, with the ruling on Citizens United, and the anti-worker legislation in most states.
A vast unwitting population sits idly by as the schemers rub their hands in glee at the rise of the hard right whose long range plan is totalitarian control of all our legislative bodies. If "we the people" don't sit up and take notice, we will end up like the proverbial frog in hot water.