fractions speak louder than words

As the occupy movement readies itself for what looks to be a long cold winter, support and opposition seem to be taking form in strange and confounding ways. I know that the people who live and work in the Wall Street area, even those who support the action, are rapidly tiring of all the drum beating and saber rattling. And even without a well defined message coming from the movement, the rest of the country seems to be queueing up to either allign with or disassociate themselves from the protestors. And the media doesn't know what to do with a news story that lasts for more than a couple of cycles with very few updates on which to report. But the first step in any recovery program is admitting that there is a problem. The problem however, resides not in lower Manhattan, but in Washington. The President's approval rating is somewhere around fifty percent, which given the state of the state of the economy, is not surprising. Congress, on the other hand, is not so highly regarded, with approval at only about 10%. People seem to be displeased with the White House, but far more displeased with the House of Representatives. These are all people who work for us. They were all elected to serve the people of the United States, and the people who elected them are largely dis-satisfied with the job they are doing. Or not doing. With the global economy faltering, and public confidence dwindling even further, the Congress of the United States last week could find nothing more appropriate to do with it's inherent power, than call to a vote a re-affirmation of the motto IN GOD WE TRUST. With an array of important issues facing this nation, some of them dire and immediate, this is how Congress chooses to spend it's time. As irresponsibly as the financial sector has acted, the political system is doing far more damage. The message out of Washington seems to be; Trust in God, because we aren't to be trusted.