Truly, one of the saddest things I've seen. It's amazing to me that we can muster billions of dollars and thousands of people to fight a unnecessary war, but have a government respond with statements like "No one could have predicted the levees wouldn't hold".

The crime is negligent homicide. Everyone of our governmental representatives having anything to do with the security of our people are culpable.

The fact is, it is ALL our fault.
Yes, the government is to blame.
WE can blame government, but WE picked that government.
Yes, the government is irresponsible. There is absolutely no doubt about it.

But, WE The People, are irresponsible too, because WE know government is irresponsible, have known it for a long time, and WE keep right on re-electing those very same irresponsible incumbent politicians over and over, giving incumbents a 90% re-election rate, forever securing their cu$hy, coveted seats of incumbent power, for years (and decades).

Some will say WE didn't choose the government, and it is out of the people's control. That is false. As long as WE have the right to vote, then WE have the power to vote out irresponsible, bought-and-paid-for incumbent politicians.

Some will say that politicians have the cards all stacked in their favor, and that is only partly true, but WE the people let that happen over many years.

So the fact is, WE are ALL responsible.

The solution to this problem is for all of US to do the one simple thing to make it better, to get to the real root of the problems in this nation, and one of those things is to stop lazily pulling the party-lever (i.e. voting straight ticket), stop being seduced into the distracting, petty partisan warfare, and stop re-electing those very same irresponsible, bought-and-paid-for incumbent politicians that use and abuse US.

Reject the partisan warfare, and the do-nothing, crooked, FOR-SALE, pandering politicians that fuel it and bribe us with our own money, and start doing the one simple, common-sense, logical, no-brainer, non-partisan, peaceful, inexpensive, safe, and responsible thing that WE voters should have been doing ALL along, always:

• Stop repeat offenders.


• Don't re-elect irresponsible, bought-and-paid-for incumbent politicians

WE are ALL culpable, and there will be more Katrinas and more 9/11s, and more government blunders as long as slumbering WE, the voters, keep re-electing (empowering) irresponsible, bought-and-paid-for incumbent politicians. Duh!

Now, some Democrats and some Republicans want to use this issue (and many other issues) for political points. That's disgusting (just more partisan warfare). The real problem is both of them, and WE the voters keep re-electing them. That's the real truth, and it is time to do the right thing, and re-electing irresponsible incubment politicians is NOT the solution.

Voters that keep doing that are just as irresponsible as the politicians they keep re-electing. That is why, after a year now, no one can list 10, 20, 50, 100, much less 268 (half of 535) persons in Congress that are responsible and accountable (and it is all too easy to show their corruption, pork-barrel, waste, pandering, and "looking the other way").

If WE can not even name HALF (268), what does that tell you? HELLO! There is a definite correlation between this nation's pressing problems and the 90% re-election rate. Most (if not all) politicians are irresponsible because WE, the people, programmed them to be that way, by giving them a 90% re-election rate (98% in the House of Representatives).

I will be the first here to admit that I have been seduced into the petty partisan warfare, used to a Republican, and used to buy the nonsense about evil Democrats. But enough is enough. This nation is not well. Things can (and should) be much better. 9/11/2001, Katrina, Iraq, and our many pressing problems, growing in number and severity, opened my eyes. No more pathetic petty partisan bickering. Now, I loathe politicians that fuel it. WE all should, because that is the most clever mechanism ever invented to distract voters from more substantive issues.

If WE really want to help, make a choice in these coming elections, and all elections in the future, to stop re-electing irresponsible, bought-and-paid-for incumbent politicians, because well-meaning newcomers to congress will never be able to pass any badly-needed, common-sense, no-brainer reforms as long as they are out-numbered by many, longtime, irresponsible, corrupt, bought-and-paid-for incubment politicians that have amassed vast wealth and power to control the media (90% of elections are won by the candidate with the most money; usually, an incumbent; and, 83% of all federal campaign donations (of $200 or more) come from a tiny 0.1% of the U.S. population) and keep newcomers from ever passing reforms that might even remotely reduce their power, opportunities for self-gain, and the security of their cu$hy, coveted seats of incumbent power.