CRITICISM

We have become a nation of critics.  Everyone is telling everyone else how to do this or that.  The worst culprit is the government.  We have senators and congressmen conducting investigations.  This is "in aid of legislation" supposedly but what laws have really impacted the majority of the country because of these investigations?  I wonder how they prioritize which laws to pass?  With the moneyed lobbyists all over congress and the senate, the ordinary citizen doesn't stand a chance.  We are on the brink of chaos and our so-called officials seem to be oblivious to the poverty, crime and corruption around them.  They need to become exemplars of integrity, fairness and honesty, yet which official can claim even a smidgen of these?  Our new president is trying hard but if the people around him don't start "walking the talk" he'll be left with the herculean task of changing the country on his own.  I say break the circle of mediocrity and corruption.  Let's stop complaining and start working.  Do your job to the best of your abilities!  The time for criticism, protests and activism is past.  Now is the time to work together to bring our battered country back from the edge.