Daily Prompt: Dear Leader

This is for the Daily Prompt for 12/19

If your government (local or national) accomplishes one thing in 2013, what would you like that to be?

Dear Leader

I have one request from you for 2013. Unite.

Why do you have to worry about crossing the aisle? Get rid of the aisle. Why two parties, how about one nation. Instead of listening to the lobbiest, listen to your constituency.  Don’t raise money for your own cause, raise money for a cause of your choice.  Your job is to govern defined as to control and direct the making and administration of policy in.  Govern for the people, not for the powerful. 

Unite. 

One Nation.  Under God. Indivisible. 

Are we THE UNITED STATES?

Thank You

Concerned American 

Shall we stop this bleeding

Senseless.  Through the sadness this is the only word I find to describe yesterday.  We live in a time when money and power are more important that human life.  And that is human life of the average man, not the wealthy and powerful.  We can find ways to fix our nation.  We can find ways to protect our children.  But we continue to let matters of the powerful keep us from fixing our nations ills.  We know the answers but our division blocks us.   Why are we a nation of red and blue instead of red, white and blue?  Why are our elected officials “representatives” of a party instead of the people?  Are we one nation? As the father of a 4th grader I look around and say we are not.  We are a nation divided at the highest level.  We have the knowledge, the intelligence, and the resources to fix it.  But money and power block it.  Just as it did years ago when our country we divided by civil war.  Most who lost their lives were common citizens.  Just as yesterday.  Americans can find the answers.  But those in power chose not to seek it.  Isn’t it worth one human life?  Shall we stop this bleeding.