Not much is happening

Except that I have this annoying cough at night that won't let me sleep well. I don't know what caused it. Is it the weather, is it stress or is it that my age is finally catching up? Perhaps it is the prevailing politics that is making me sick!

I am definitely sick of one sidedness of current US politics by the administration and the extreme conservatives. But they manage to bulldoze their way. They don't realize that half of the people (may be more, as some are afraid to express their opinion) don't share their views and meanness. If someone speaks out, he or she is considered unpatriotic.

They have almost managed to justify domestic spying, torture of prisoners, dispatching prisoners to countries where torture is allowed, intruding another country's airspace (Pakistan) without permission to drop bombs, attacking and destroying a country (Iraq) by misleading the people, and so on. The executive branch gives the impression that they are above the law. This administration conveniently ignores the UN or the world opinion. The administration wants democracy and peace in the world in their own terms. In schools we were taught that anything in life is negotiable. This administration believes in an eye for an eye. "An eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind." - Mahatma Gandhi.

Yet, poverty & homelessness in the US continue to grow. School drop out rate is high. We have almost forgotten Katrina and New Orleans. No one talks about 2200+ dead in Iraq war. Deficit continues to grow (which would have bankrupted if it was a private company). No one is seriously talking about social security.

The administration cannot take care of our back yard, but we are at someone's country for the wrong reason and spending billions, killing hundreds (ours and theirs). The public is mislead by emotional issues rather than real issues. They manage to divide people for pure politics.

Issues of abortion, definition of marriage, assisted suicide, etc. will not reduce poverty, homelessness, unemployment, deficit, etc. Yet, we the people succumb to such politics. Perhaps there is some truth in the saying that a people get a government it deserves.