Congress-Old White Men are Destroying Our Nation

What do they know about the needs of the majority? A bunch of  entitled rich old white men with free health insurance and mega benefits making decisions which affect the majority of us-women, children, Hispanic , Black and Asian descent?
What the heck do they know about our needs? Take a look at who runs our country? A bunch of old white farts,
Do you think they really give a rats patootie about the suffering in our nation?
Quit voting for them, idiots-
They run our banks, corporations, credit card companies,  health care, wall st, they outsource jobs to third world countries, exploiting even poorer minorities, the lobby and pass laws to protect their fat white butts-
the only thing more repulsive?
People are so stupid they vote for them-against their own interests-

111th Congress is as follows:

Generation Birth Years Count Party Division


GI Generation 1901–1924 4 4D, 0R


Silent Generation 1925–1942 33 15D, 1I, 1ID, 16 R


Boomer Generation 1943–1960 56 32D, 23R


Generation X 1961–1981 7 4D, 3R


Generation Y 1982–2001 0[1] 0D, 0R

State Senator Party Birth Year Generation Noted for:



West Virginia Robert Byrd D 1917 GI

Hawaii Daniel Inouye D 1924 GI

New Jersey Frank Lautenberg D 1924 GI

Hawaii Daniel Akaka D 1924 GI

Pennsylvania Arlen Specter D 1930 Silent

Kentucky Jim Bunning R 1931 Silent

Indiana Richard Lugar R 1932 Silent

California Dianne Feinstein D 1933 Silent

Iowa Chuck Grassley R 1933 Silent

Utah Robert Foster Bennett R 1933 Silent

Alabama Richard Shelby R 1934 Silent

Michigan Carl Levin D 1934 Silent

Oklahoma James Inhofe R 1934 Silent

Utah Orrin Hatch R 1934 Silent

Wisconsin Herbert Kohl D 1935 Silent

Arizona John McCain R 1936 Silent

Kansas Pat Roberts R 1936 Silent

Maryland Barbara Mikulski D 1936 Silent

Ohio George Voinovich R 1936 Silent

Illinois Roland Burris D 1937 Silent

Mississippi Thad Cochran R 1937 Silent

West Virginia Jay Rockefeller D 1937 Silent

Delaware Ted Kaufman D 1939 Silent

Iowa Tom Harkin D 1939 Silent

Missouri Kit Bond R 1939 Silent

Nevada Harry Reid D 1939 Silent

California Barbara Boxer D 1940 Silent

Tennessee Lamar Alexander R 1940 Silent

Vermont Patrick Leahy D 1940 Silent

Montana Max Baucus D 1941 Silent

Nebraska Ben Nelson D 1941 Silent

Vermont Bernard Sanders I 1941 Silent

Arizona Jon Kyl R 1942 Silent

Connecticut Joe Lieberman ID 1942 Silent

Florida Bill Nelson D 1942 Silent

Kentucky Mitch McConnell R 1942 Silent

North Dakota Byron Dorgan D 1942 Silent

Georgia Saxby Chambliss R 1943 Boomer

Idaho Jim Risch R 1943 Boomer

Maryland Ben Cardin D 1943 Boomer

Massachusetts John Kerry D 1943 Boomer

New Mexico Jeff Bingaman D 1943 Boomer

Texas Kay Bailey Hutchison R 1943 Boomer

Connecticut Christopher Dodd D 1944 Boomer

Georgia Johnny Isakson R 1944 Boomer

Illinois Richard Durbin D 1944 Boomer

Wyoming Michael Enzi R 1944 Boomer

Alabama Jeff Sessions R 1946 Boomer

South Dakota Tim Johnson D 1946 Boomer

Virginia Jim Webb D 1946 Boomer

Delaware Thomas R. Carper D 1947 Boomer

Maine Olympia Snowe R 1947 Boomer

New Hampshire Jeanne Shaheen D 1947 Boomer

New Hampshire Judd Gregg R 1947 Boomer

New Mexico Tom Udall D 1948 Boomer

North Dakota Kent Conrad D 1948 Boomer

Oklahoma Tom Coburn R 1948 Boomer

Oregon Ron Wyden D 1949 Boomer

Rhode Island Jack Reed D 1949 Boomer

Colorado Mark Udall D 1950 Boomer

Michigan Debbie Stabenow D 1950 Boomer

Nebraska Mike Johanns R 1950 Boomer

New York Charles Schumer D 1950 Boomer

Washington Patty Murray D 1950 Boomer

Idaho Mike Crapo R 1951 Boomer

Minnesota Al Franken D 1951 Boomer

Mississippi Roger Wicker R 1951 Boomer

South Carolina Jim DeMint R 1951 Boomer

Maine Susan Collins R 1952 Boomer

Ohio Sherrod Brown D 1952 Boomer

Tennessee Bob Corker R 1952 Boomer

Texas John Cornyn R 1952 Boomer

Wyoming John Barrasso R 1952 Boomer

Missouri Claire McCaskill D 1953 Boomer

North Carolina Kay Hagan D 1953 Boomer

Wisconsin Russ Feingold D 1953 Boomer

New Jersey Bob Menendez D 1954 Boomer

Virginia Mark Warner D 1954 Boomer

Indiana Evan Bayh D 1955 Boomer

Louisiana Mary Landrieu D 1955 Boomer

North Carolina Richard Burr R 1955 Boomer

Rhode Island Sheldon Whitehouse D 1955 Boomer

South Carolina Lindsey Graham R 1955 Boomer

Kansas Sam Brownback R 1956 Boomer

Montana Jon Tester D 1956 Boomer

Oregon Jeff Merkley D 1956 Boomer

Alaska Lisa Murkowski R 1957 Boomer

Nevada John Ensign R 1958 Boomer

Washington Maria Cantwell D 1958 Boomer

Massachusetts Scott Brown R 1959 Boomer

Arkansas Blanche Lincoln D 1960 Boomer

Minnesota Amy Klobuchar D 1960 Boomer

Pennsylvania Bob Casey, Jr. D 1960 Boomer

Louisiana David Vitter R 1961 Generation X

South Dakota John Thune R 1961 Generation X

Alaska Mark Begich D 1962 Generation X

Arkansas Mark Pryor D 1963 Generation X

Colorado Michael Bennet D 1964 Generation X

New York Kirsten Gillibrand D 1966 Generation X

Florida George LeMieux R 1969 Generation X

Incongruent Township, Defining Justice as Intolerance

The national landscape is fettered with little towns comprised of citizens with value systems out of the 1900's.
They are outraged with government spending. They believe we should all honor our debts. They believe in hard work, honesty and a days pay for an  days work.
If only local, state and federal government practiced the same way.
If only banks, businesses, Wall Street and major corporations played by the same rules.

The town of Incongruence believes God will smite those who do not pay their debts-
oh! yeah - it doesn't count if you are a major corporation or a business owner.

The citizens of Incongruence would define themselves as "christians"
-you know, the ones who believe God chooses who goes to Heavan, and it isn't you my black, muslim, jewish, islamic, hindu neighbor

Home grown Incongruents believe more "christianity" should be in the schools, the government and on our money.
They send money to Haiti but allow the poor in their hometowns to live without electricity . They still have poor neighborhoods full of black, unemployed men (they consider them lazy, when in reality the unemployment rate for black men is double the national rate), yet they send "missions to poor countries".

Hang the poor- if they worked harder they would not be poor.
Incongruents believe poverty is chosen.
They believe their wealth is a gift, a reward, perhaps, from God, for doing the "right thing"

And last but most important?
Incongruents believe abortion is murder.
Abortion is murder, but having a child out of wedlock is a sin and should be punished.
For all you women who chose birth rather than abortion, you are to be commended-
but once you have that child-you are a whore-

Incongruent citizens will turn their backs on you and ensure you suffer like the slut you are..along with your bastard child.

Incongruent townships dot the USA like McDonalds.

Are they any different than the close minded, intolerant religious fanatics of other nations?










Incongruents believe the poor deserve to be poor. If they

Step Up to the Plate, States-if the Feds can't do it..

We aren't totally helpless in this morass created by our federal government. Their lack of cohesion, paralysis created by both parties, bickering, posturing and pontificating can be and should be overridden by individual states.

New Mexico's idea  of moving money out of big banks and placing it in community banks and credit unions is a step in the right direction. Other states have provided health care for residents. Others have worked to create jobs for its citizens.

If the Federal Government and our legislators are so over run by lobbyists, so polarized , and so weak they are unwilling to take a stand on any issue, states need to step up to the plate. Democracy in the United States was created with many levels to provide autonomy and opportunity.

Let's seek alternative methods to deal with credit ripoffs, bank monopolies, price fixing and job loss.
States can do it. Show courage-United States of America.
Don't let your citizens down.
Seek out your best and brightest to solve these issues.

American Anger-the Two Year Old's Temper Tantrum

When Americans get angry they get destructive. Like two year olds we stomp our feet and break our toys. We don't much care what destruction we leave behind, we want what we want and we want it now!
Perhaps we weathered the great depression with greater aplomb as a younger country because we had the experience of citizens from other countries. Other countries with hundreds and sometimes thousands of years of experience as civilizations. Civilizations which learned hard lessons, some disappearing from this planet because they refused to listen, learn from mistakes, or considered themselves "too big to fail"
Our government is on a quest to destroy the very fabric of democracy built over the baby years we have been in business. We are babies compared to France, Spain, England and Italy. All major power players on this planet at various times.
Perhaps the wisdom of experiences and the lessons which can be learned by observing history would be helpful to our quest to grow and mature as a country.
Two year olds, as we know, don't have the maturity to reflect. The two year old's tantrum wreaks destruction, out of control, not understanding his own anger, only the desire to remove whatever pain or discomfort creating the chaotic feelings from within.
As citizens, we behave  much the same,
pointing fingers, yelling and screaming, crying and stomping our feet, willing to vote for the biggest, most destructive bullies, much like us, who will express our collective anger, without reason, forethought or maturity,
We don't want to just blame others for our immaturity and destructive behavior, we want to destroy them so we don't have to accept responsibility for our own destructiveness.
For this reason, we will vote for those with the biggest bully voices, ignoring our own destructive and irresponsible behavior. We will applaud the destructivness of politicians who obstruct that which will guide us, care for us, lead us or protect us. We look for the bully with the biggest stick, the loudest mouth, the greatest ignorance to lash out, destroy and make us all feel powerful-for the moment.

That moment, that tantrum, when completed, is the great threat to our nation.
Our refusal to grow up and take responsibility for ourselves, our  own lives,  and our country's health and well being .
We have no one to put us in the corner to cool off, to get control, to learn to control our anger.

Let us hope we can learn to do it for ourselves. Right now, it doesn't look so good.

A layman's perspective of politics

I think I can speak for most citizens when I say we are sick of politics as usual.
Politics as usual seem to encompass an insidious, blatant corruption at just about every level-local. county, state and federal. Layer it with an arrogance reserved for the wealthy, the greedier than thou corporate bonus slackers and the laugh in your face wall street /bankers using their blanket mandate from the prior repubulican government to take every dollar possible from the citizens of the US while off shore banking profits, using tax shelters and outsourcing jobs, I guess you could say we are not only sick of it but cynical, angry and outright hostile.
Yes Americans still want to believe in something. Thus the finger pointing at specific political parties.
As if all of them aren't responsible for the current state of affairs.

Our destructive devisiveness does nothing to force change in our country's manner of doing business.
In fact, spinning our wheels states it mildly.
It seems as if we are on a path of self destruction, our anger loose, our beliefs staid, stubborn and sadly, ignorant.
Those who could put us back together, those we believed would change the direction and destiny of our country -are those we elected, hoping change, change which would address the ills of our country, our economy, our civil rights, our very democracy, present themselves as charlatans-lying with aplomb, brazenly twisting truth, and no longer caring if citizens call them on it-because we no longer have  consequences for unethical behavior, hypocritcal acts, yes, even illegal behaviors are acceptable in our hall of congress and government seats of power.
How did we get here? One of the greatest democracies in the world? The doors to opportunity are now in India, perhaps other countries which, while having problems, still have a dream of a better world.

I keep waiting, pollyannish though it may be, for my fellow citizens, waiting for their anger, sense of justice, hope for the future of their children, and yes, that old work ethic Americans have proudly adhered to in eras past, to wake up, to notice and take on the brokenness of our country-one crooked politician, one greedy bank, one selfish lobbyist at a time-to vote-to speak-to let the two party system which is  curently failing us, which has failed us and will continue to do so unless we vote-not for the two party system, but for the mavericks, the independants, the ethical outspoken eccentrics and innovators-who will speak and act on the truth.
This nest election, we need to vote for neither party.
Remember those signs from the last election? "Anybody but Bush?"
We need new slogans-anybody but democrats or republicans.
They are destroying our country.
Continuing to vote for them as if we have no other option is not the democracy our country founded.
Let us change our own destiny, as citizens of the United States.
Begin by listening and then send the message to all parties-you are failing us.
Remember us? The citizens of the Unites States?
You are failing us and we can do something about it-
We can vote you all out. Both parties. All of you.
We can, and we will.

Bernanke-We Don't Care Who Broke It-FIX IT!

Politicians don't get it.
We don't really care who broke it anymore.
We don't really want to sit around and point fingers at parties.
Fix it.
Quit with the partisian politics and fix it.

We don't see any miracles in the sky when it comes to the economy.
The 10% unemployment rate is a number-a joke.
More than 10% of our workforce are out of jobs. Many quit looking. Many keep looking -now struggling to live without unemployment benefits.

We watched the bailouts of wall street, the big banks, we agreed to the millions of dollars poured into  Workforce for job trainings.
What do the American people get in return?
More empty words. Millions of dollars to wall street fatcats and bank parasites while our credit lines have dried up, interest rates soared, banks and credit card companies inventing more ways to take our dollars.
Utility bills rising, grocery bills soaring,-
We are disgusted, disallusioned and fed up.
The Republicans may feel they have the answer.
Fools.
We see our government turning their backs on us for their own greed.

Fix it.
Create jobs.
We supported the bailouts and the "too big to fail" corporations and financial institutions have let us, the American people out on the streets. literally, in the cold.

Those of us who supported President Obama feel just as disallusioned as the angry tea partiers.
Fix it.
More of the same doesn't help us.
Until the financial institutions of America understand their fatcat dollars come from one source-US- the American people-and evenutally, if the government doesn't intervene, we will find a way to circumvent the current system, and we will develop another way to deal with our economic rape by financial insitutions.

Congress, fix it.
We have lost trust in you and the United States government.
The deal making, the trade offs, the greed, the corporate payoffs, the donation game, the corporate trips and overflowing coffers?
We are sick of them and we are sick of your behavior.
Paul Wellstone truly was the last of the great altruists.
Our government is overrun with moronic, greedy, carpetbaggers and we are sick of them.

Old Rich White Men Run Our Country

What did we expect? When rich old white men run the country? Did we expect them to relate to the United States rainbow of citizens in our country?
Every time I click on a news article about Wall Street, big banks, health care corporations or big business a sea of  old white  male faces surround me.
Who runs our country?

Old white men.
Who allows it?
Why do we keep voting this way?
When will we learn ?
Is this a country of rich old white men?
Sure looks like it to me.

Can you guess who these white men are?