and we have been told

We were told that smoking a cigarette was, if anything, as American as apple pie. When incredulous "commies" started talking jive about the unhealthy features of cigarette smoking, we were once told by those in CHARGE, not to listen. We were told that any studies created to undermine the quality of good tobacco was just a bunch of unhappy hippies trying to ruin a good thing. We were told by elected officials of tobacco producing states that anti American forces were behind some kind of anti American conspiracy to undermine the sensibilities of good all American Americans. And why would the Government allow any American to smoke "tobaccy", if it weren't darn right good for them.

We were told oil was our destiny. We were told that the bigger the car, the better a man felt. Not just any man but an American man. We were told that more was better in size and less was bad when it came to miles per hour. We were told by those in CHARGE that Americans deserved the kind of car they dreamed of and if that dream meant less gas per miles per hour than no one should raise any standard for better mileage. We were told by ELECTED officials of oil producing states, and car manufacturing states, that the American way was fast with brightly lit BIG cars. That Americans needed roomy and more. That Americans owned the world and all of its resources. We were told those foreign tiny vehicles were not patriotic expenditures, and that buy American, no matter what you are buying was the correct expenditure.

We are told that any Public Option is truly an expense this country can't afford. We are told that there should be no Government competition when it comes to health insurance. It is not necessary because the Health Insurance Cartels can and should handle the health matters of Americans. We are told that a Public Option is bad, but never told what we should do for all of those uninsured or under insured. We are told by those in CHARGE that the Government has no right to run a health insurance program, even though it runs the Senate and House of Representatives Health Plan and and Medicare. We are told by by ELECTED officials that we should leave well enough alone and not meddle into the the life liberty and pursuit of happiness part of the Constitution, at least the part of the Constitution that does not directly and immediately relate to those we ELECTED. We are told by those ELECTED Senators and Congress people who have received substantial campaign gifts from lobbyists of the Pharma-Conglomerates and the Health Insurance Cartels and who many times have spouses working for same "industry folk", that the American thing is competition unfettered. Leave the American way, just that American.

We have and are being told over and over again rhetoric, never based on sound judgement, just the sound of dollars being tallied up in the campaign coffers of our ELECTED officials. We have been told and are being told anything and everything to scare us, fool us and lull us into a false sense of safety and comfort.

And when we by chance find out that those ELECTED officials and those in CHARGE never meant a word of truth or never really cared, we have been told are told by the same carnival characters, "I never said that", "it wasn't me", "you must have heard something else."

And in most cases we believe the liars and fabricators and reward them with four more years, six more years, book deals, guest appearances and libraries.

When do we finally get OUR voice back and tell the ELECTED officials and those in CHARGE where to go and how to get there?

HMMMM???