fox and hen

If we ask the Tobacco Conglomerates to tell us about the health and safety of their products, and use their testimony, their factual checks, their scientific surveys to express the truth about cigarettes what kind of answer do we expect to get?

If we ask the American auto makers to tell us about why we don't have safer cars, better miles per gallon, and cars made to last longer than a few years, and use their engineer studies, their industry research, their study of facts to explain the truth about American made cars, what kind of answer do we expect to get?

If we ask the Coal and Oil Industry to tell us about fossil fuel pollution, about green house effects, about depleting the resources of the ocean and the hillsides and receive their input, their outcomes, their reviews what kind of answer do we expect?

If we ask our ELECTED OFFICIALS who receive Government run Health Care, cash on the side from Health Care Cartels/Pharma-Conglomerate Lobbyists, direction from religious based dogma, to reform the Health Care Insurance for the average American what kind of answer will we receive? If those same ELECTED OFFICIALS turn to the Health Care Cartel to propose change, what kind of change will we receive?

If we ask the Banks and the Wall Street CEO's why they had no checks and balances in place during the latest American economic disaster, why there were no stop gaps into lending practices, why the bottom line of personal salaries triumphed over the need for oversight what kind of answer do we expect? When we now allow the CEO's of Wall Street and the Banking Industry to pave the way for caps or no caps on salaries, for establishing standards for finances, for changing old rules and creating new regulations what kind of reform do we expect to receive?

If we ask those who created the problem, those who benefit financially, those who can and do look the other way, because change does not affect them, what do we expect in return?

When do we look at our history of trusting the Fox to guard the Henhouse and discover that in his guarding the poultry, the wise old FOX has eaten the birds? When do we stop allowing the aggressor free reign to remain greedy and gluttonous? When does common sense get called upon instead of senseless waste and want?

Where are the smart people? Where are the wise men and women? Where does the madness end and the mindful begin? How many more lessons learned from the past, will just go up in smoke? So damn frustrating!