How a Bill Really Becomes a Law

This is without a doubt the most accurate chart describing how a bill really becomes a law that I have ever seen.

Tired of the Republican Debt Burden?

The media (at least the right-wing media) would have us believe that the Democrats are the big spenders who have put the country into deep debt. Think again friends!

So who really is responsible for digging the hole we're in?

Just when you think it can’t get any worse!

Every day I sift through a number of print and electronic news sources and am continually astonished at how totally dysfunctional we have become as a society. Government leaders at all levels have lost a sense of purpose and fail to understand the most fundamental values and principles of representative democracy. Corporate executives have lost any sense of social responsibility and operate without regard to the impact their actions have on the businesses they run, the people who work for them, or the people who are harmed by what they do in the name of profit and personal gain. Media is failing miserably, preferring to represent the interests of political extremists and no longer serving in the traditional role of government watchdog. And, citizens themselves have abdicated their responsibility to engage in their own governance and would rather spend their time in greedy pursuit of more toys for themselves and their children.

Greed, arrogance, and detrimental self-interest are rampant in every aspect of American society. Unfortunately there are far too few objective voices responding to the insanity that surrounds us. Following humbly in the tradition of Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Will Rogers, and H.L. Mencken the goal of this blog is to objectively, honestly, and very often sarcastically examine and critique political, social, and cultural issues with attention to the interests of  the forgotten everyman, the neglected people of “We the people…”.