An Open Letter to Government

We, the People, are speaking

by Peter Stern

To President Obama, Administration and Congress:

I am writing articles demanding Americans contact the President and Congress. I want them to demand a different approach to dealing with our urgent issues. The issues still are NOT being dealt with appropriately and expediently.

President Obama, you made various promises to the American people. You promised peace and getting back on the right track economically. Instead, you are authorizing more war in Afghanistan, North Korea and elsewhere and you are bailing-out the very crooked banks and investment firms that have created a lot of our economic mess.

My problem is that we all take it. Americans have become sheep being led to slaughter by our leaders. You made promises and so did Congress. The majority of Americans are NOT being helped.

We don't bang down the legislative doors, ring the phones off the hooks, overload the emails, etc. We just take it.

We need to write the media and tell them to help demand the changes. We need to continue to demand the changes on all blogs like this one.

We don't like it, but we take it.

What I want us all to do is to get together and communicate all this to Congress and Obama. Demand they stop bailing-out the very crooks who got us here.

Vote in new blood into offices. Demand that laws be developed that prohibit wealthy campaign contributions, perks and gifts.

Until we get this done things will NOT change for the better.

We need to keep this on the front burners so that the public sees it clearly EVERY day and finally gets sick of it and acts on it.

We need to keep it in the headlines and on the minds of our lawmakers until they deal with it.

We need to continue to confront the problems and communicate them so that they remain in the news and people can't easily push it all aside.

That's my two cents on it all and why I have written about issues for the past 10 years, hoping for change. I don't want my children's grandchildren to be responsible for all our folly.

Our nation has stopped working for all of us. We need to get government back on track. Remember?

"Government of the people, by the people and for the people..."