One person's opinion of all the lost freedoms that are occurring in the US over the last century and the difference of how elected officials are viewed in the US and Europe. Our elected officials do not seem to have the same fear of "not serving the public" as is the case in Europe, even when it comes to health care. BD
Even though I am not a big Michael Moore fan, I am a believer in providing universal healthcare for all Americans. For that reason, I decided to see Michael Moore’s new movie “SiCKO” over last weekend. What surprised me after seeing the movie was not just the realization of the poor US healthcare coverage issues or how the drug and medical insurance companies are skewering the average American. Unfortunately, this reality is already being made public regularly in America on a day to day basis. What struck me even more than all of that was the stark realization of the major loss of freedoms that have slowly taken over the American middle and working classes in the past half century.
In Europe, the attitude of elected officials is also very different from those in America. The British and European government representatives tend to work more for the public, as they are continually in fear of being accused of not taking care of their citizens. In America, it is just the opposite. The citizens have instead learned to not trust their government politicians, much less expect them to provide support for the citizens. Today’s US citizen’s approval rating for the current US Executive is the lowest in US history. The only US citizen approval rating that is lower, is for that of the US Congress.
As wealthy, world-wide corporations continue to be allowed to acquire American companies and to ship their jobs overseas, the American middle class has become highly demoralized as it also continues to shrink. The financial divide between the upper and lower class in America continues to expand every year. And there doesn’t appear to be anything coming in the future that will change that situation.
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