Governments not for the people.

To win in the elections in November Republicans are resorting to any kind of dirty tactic that they can get away with. States with Republican governments have passed laws to stop early voting because that helps black voters who vote for Democrats and will vote for Obama anyway. Indeed polls show that Romney attracts 0% of black votes. Republicans are also insisting on photo ID cards such as driving licenses which would rule out the poor, the traditional base for Democrats. A vigilante group calling itself True The Vote descends on polling station, ostensibly to check fraud voters, but in reality to bully voters who are likely to vote for Democrats, such as young people, many of whom leave without voting. In March 2012 James Jett, a Clay County clerk in Florida alleged that Republican Congressman Cliff Stearns paid him $25,000 to withdraw from the primary in his favor. Stearns was hoping to draw votes away from his real opponent, State Legislator Steve Oelrich. In one of her shows Rachel Maddow of MSNBC reported that the FBI is talking to one Justin Lamar Sternad who was third in the race for a Democrat primary to chose the candidate against Republican Congressman Dan Rivera. Rivera financed Sternad with $64,000 to upset his real opponent Joe Garcia. If politicians resort to immoral means and intimidation to win elections surely it is not to serve the people. At the very least it is totally undemocratic and therefore undermines their own legitimacy. However, Republicans are not the only ones who are sympathetic to the rich. On 12 December 2009 Obama declared," I did not run for office to be helping a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street." But on 14 December in a meeting with the same bankers he said," My administration is the only thing between you and pitchforks." He did nothing to punish bankers, reduce risky trades or control excessive bonuses. Both Greek and Spanish governments are passing ever increasing austerity budgets, without any regard for the suffering of the people, just to survive within the Euro. Greece is suffering its third year of contraction and has youth unemployment of 50%. The suffering is so acute that mothers have been known to leave their children at orphanages where they will be fed. All this pain would have made sense if there was any hope for the future but every expert says that they will be locked in a cycle of very poor growth, low earning, leading to low tax collection, poor social services and severe poverty for decades. So why are the governments punishing their people? They say that leaving the Euro will lead to collapse of their currencies, hyper inflation and loss of markets. But it maybe because they want to cover up the responsibility of politicians of previous governments who are responsible for the debacle. There is a disconnect between governments and the people they are elected to serve. They have become businesses of exploitation.