Come on now. Enough is enough!

Come on now. Enough is enough!

Why have politicians in recent years tried to convince us the government is "too big"? Agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration were one of the first to suffer a budget slashing, preventing them from adequately doing their job:, to protect "We the people".

Where do these "small government" politicians get their political donations from? Who stands to gain from defanging the watch-dogs that protect us from seedier businesses who care nothing for our welfare and shown us for years they have no intention on changing that behavior?

Of course, they knew we would not stand for the dismantling of the FDA outright--a crisis was needed, one of such magnitude that "We The People" would allow the slashing of funding to public social services that compete with businesses whose only concern is profit. They convinced too many of us to stand by and allow these cuts, even as we watched the price extracted from the general public health. And then they pointed at the failures as if they were in fact justifications of these cuts.

Instead of spending tax money for relief from disease or hardship or protecting us from poison, these politicians promised us" relief" from our tax burden. What we got instead was a redistribution of wealth--and not in our favor. This created a deficit that had to be addressed--but no one wanted to raise taxes. How relieved were we when a solution to the man-made crisis was found. Politicians told us the government was fat and needed trimming. They pointed to top-heavy agencies as the disease and presented slash government services as the cure. The FDA was only one of the first to fall. They deregulated the financial industry, removing key protections that had been put in place after The Great Depression of the 1930s. When this led us into the very real crisis of The Great Recession of 2009, another bailout and a continued assault on the American people to redistribute wealth in the form of the bailout--of taxpayer money. A solution paid for by others for a crisis of their own creation.

If this sounds familiar it's because they keep doing it over and over again. Japan's Fukushima power plant continues to poison our oceans, killing the fish we eat even as climate change threatens the life of all sea life. Deregulated industries now allowed to poison our air. Believing they can ride out the storm, these "leaders" believe they will simply govern the ones who are left standing, a cruel Darwinism by people who claim the Cross as their own.

There is a better way to govern. We must make it happen, We the People, while we still have the power. We've had enough of not getting enough.