Talk About A Fish Story...Everyone's Crabbing About Something!

The choice was between a gambler and a dreamer. The country seemed ready for a change as the founding fathers provided for in the Constitution.

So, I voted for the dreamer. Obama' rhetoric was spell-binding. Most of us were ready for change and we had an abundance of hope.

Here it is, six months into the President's term and I, and much of the country, are unhappy with the programs that we see in the White House and the Congress. These people just don't seem to be on the same wave length as the rest of us. I regret that I voted for Obama. I was fooled and a fool for falling for the hype!

Federal elected officials get a very generous salary, pension, health care and perks and live better than the average American. Few of them have run businesses or practiced medicine and yet they're making business and medical decisions that will tank the economy and affect the lives of Americans for generations to come.

Gongress and the President don't practice frugality but they do come up with wild schemes to spend our money. Bernard Madoff would have fit in very well with our political leaders.

We citizens are reacting to the possibilities of our health care changing, rising taxes and unrestrained spending. As a result of our outspokenness about the fishy stuff in Washington, Speaker Pelosi called us mobs and the White House wants citizens to turn in people who send emails or write blogs that may contain "fishy" information.

History has shown that if the people remain silent, the leadership will use its power to subjegate its citizens.

Pastor Martin Niemöller was imprisoned by Hitler for speaking out against the tyranny of the Nazi power and was sent to Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps. He said:

In Germany they first came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me —
and by that time no one was left to speak up.

Now, those in power are not Nazis but recent comments painting citizens as "mobs" and representing organized political groups are unfounded. The only way to maintain the freedom guaranteed in the First Amendment is to express opinions by attending meetings and communicating through whatever legal channels are available while they're free of government control and censorship. Write a letter or send an email expressing your opinions about this mess.