Who is Responsible?

Jeffrey St. Clair, of the Counter Punch blog, blogged this weekend about our government: “The Empire of the Senseless.” http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/18/empire-of-the-senseless/. He described our government as one “that doesn't sense, that doesn't feel, that is immune to the conditions and desires of the governed.” St. Clair’s main argument is to convince America that our country is no longer ran by a government that’s ‘for the people, by the people,’ but instead is now  a government that seeks to only please itself and is “menacing” to the public.

St. Clair asks the people what it is that should be done about it while telling them that the problem is the left wing politicians and their denial to see what our presidents true agenda is, is the problem. His proof comes from the fact that most of our economic gains have gone to the top one percent of the people… the rich. He also tells his audience that Obama has brushed aside the affects the bad economy has had on the already impoverished Americans and has picked Jeffrey Zients to head the National Economic Council as a way to humiliate the political left.

I disagree with St. Clair’s argument. I don’t believe that the government is solely out to do what they want for themselves and I don’t believe that our president purposefully set out to hurt the American people and not care what his actions did to us.  Yes, our government isn't doing the best job it could be but I really think that they are doing what they think is best for its people; no matter how skewed their idea of best for us is.