America was a free and proud country until the turn of the 20th century. Then the progressive movement started, and it has been downhill ever since, with more and more power being seized by the commissars in Washington.
Nancy Pelosi is the head commissar in the House of Representatives, but she is backed by Hoyer, Murtha, Frank, Waters, Conyers and Rangle. This bunch of socialists are spending our money faster than it can be printed, borrowed or stolen. They are attempting to take over every segment of our lives, and our free enterprise way of economics, and they will not be happy until they control it all.
The Senate is controlled by Sen. Harry Reid. He’s just as bad as Pelosi, but doesn’t have the iron-fisted control that Pelosi has, due to some conservative Democrats. They will try to lull the American people to sleep, and then pass the bills in the dead of night. Remember their big pay raises, and the annual increase they get, regardless of facts. Reid still has some henchmen like Schumer, Dodd, Baucus, Boxer and Feinstein to do his dirty work, so he can stay above the fray. They want to pass bills that will lower our standard of living and burden our children, and grandchildren, to Third World status.
Overseeing this transformation of America is the head commissar, President Obama, who shares the goals of redistribution of wealth until no one has anything. This tactic was tried by the former Soviet Union, and you see where they are in history. If this transformation is allowed, we will be on the road to the same fate. Socialism is not for America now, nor in the future, as it does not promote freedom.
Roy Winans
Joplin
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