I'm Sick of the Politicians in this Country

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Written by Kevin A. Fitzsimons

I'm sick of the politicians in this country. I am disabled, a veteran, and live on a fixed income in one of the country's poorest states, Tennessee. I have tried to contact my local government in Harriman to no avail. I have tried to contact my state senators that also to no avail.
I worked for the U. S. Postal Service for 22 years and was injuried on the job. The Post Office out-sourced the management of Worker's Compensation claims (as they claim, to reduce paperwork but really so that management could say they had nothing to do with any disapproval of claims i.e, no blood on their hands) and so my claim was turned down. I had to wait to get surgery on both my knees and couldn't returned to carrying mail because the Post Office claimed that since my injuries weren't job related they didn't have to provide me with work at all. I had to go on welfare and state-assisted insurance. I still was held to child-support by the State of Delaware even though I had no income coming in and couldn't return to work due to no fault of my own. The upshot of all this was that I tried to contact my state Senator Joseph Biden' office to ask him for assistance in the matter. I wrote to his office 3 times, I called his office several more, I even emailed him but to no avail. At the time Senator Biden was too busy with more important issues (the flying of the rebel flag in one of the southern states comes to mind specifically) to bother contacting me to see how he could assist me. And now he is running for Vice-President of the country? Please! If he couldn't assist me in the second smallest state in the union how is he going to help anyone when he represents the whole country? He isn't and neither is any other politican as far as I'm concern.
Take the gas situation currrently plaguing us (this is just one of many problems that are totally being ignored by today's politician in the this country). Since the time of Nixon, at least as far back as Jimmy Carter, I have heard politicians saying over and over again how we have to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. That was over 30 years ago and today we see exactly what Washington and its politicians have done for us. Nothing! And why I ask myself over and over again. The answer is simple: the politicians don't work for us, they work for the big American Oil companies. When the Post Office wished to raise the price of the postage stamp (even if it was as small an increase as 2 cents) they had to go in front of Congress and argue that the increase was absolutely necessary. The rationale behind this, at least as I was informed of it, was that since all Americans had to use the Post Office for first class mailing of its letters, it was Congress' job to see to it that the cost of doing so wasn't beyond the reach of all Americans. An increase in the price of the postal stamp had to be absolutely necessary in the Government's view and so they made the process so lengthy and laborous that by the time an increase was approved it was actually to seek another increase.
And yet the price of gasoline can climb 50 cents, 75 cents, even a dollar in one day and the government does nothing about it. Why isn't Congress brow-beating and regulating the oil companies the same way and for the same reasons as they did to the Postal Service? And why hasn't the Government pressed the issue of finding alternative sources of energy for all these years? Once again the Oil Companies are running the show here, barring the way for innovations because they don't care if we have to pay more at the pump they just don't want any competition.

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