WHOM CAN WE TRUST?

It is about to be spring but someone forgot to mention it to Mother Nature.  In the Northeast, the six inches of snow struck a feeling of deja vu.  There is something about that kind of unpleasant repeat calling for action (like shoveling snow) that just weighs one down with the added overload of information.

It is unclear to me whether we are finally hearing about the lies of G W Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and the others that seem not to care or feel any responsibility for the hundreds of thousands of lives lost because of them and, worse, the 32,000 maimed for life military personnel returned to the US while our Republican house majority is making their lives uselessly miserable for them and their families so they can continue to have the backing of the powers that pay them campaign funds, or some other equally shameful impetus.

When people have such little human empathy for their fellow men, they are viewed suspiciously as sociopaths.  The same can be said about CEOs of huge corporations whose salaries have expanded three hundredfold while minimum wage remains just that, as little as they can get away with paying.  More people should be educated in the signs and symptoms to look for in people not to be trusted.  It amazes me constantly that people seem so little able to put together people's behaviors and character as somehow not being connected.  Not so, my friends.  How people behave and judgements they make definitely indicates what you may except from them in other situations.  Romney's taped talk to his $50,000 a plate contributors tells much about his pleasure at telling about the conditions of young women in his factories in China.

Would he want one of his granddaughters to work in such conditions.  He likely would never consider it because his family is so moneyed that such conditions would never occur.  How did he think he could be President when he is hiding his money off shore to save his taxes so that the poor people (now the former middle class) can pay it all while he build 5 story elevators for his cars.

At last, we have been hearing media admits they were not doing their job when the Iraq Was was being pushed through.  I hope they will realize they are not supposed to run the country but simply hold elected  politicians to truth and their jobs being honestly and competently performed.  In today's world that seems to be more to ask from them than for which they have prepared.