Step up and show your outrage

We are sick and tired of the corruption of the politicians, both Republican and Democrat. We are sick and tired of the Government and big business alike not living within their means when we, the ordinary citizen, must. We are sick of new taxes, fees or whatever they want to call it just because they can't control the spending. We are sick and tired of the greed, both from the politicians and big business. We are sick and tired of CEOs getting paid multimillion dollar salaries and multimillion dollar bonuses for doing the job they were hired to do and then going bankrupt or getting a government bailout. We are sick of Pay to Play in the Government, because we all know that they all do the same thing - they just haven't gotten caught yet. We are sick and tired of our politicians turning a blind eye to all of this. We are sick and tired of having to fund countries only to turn around and borrow billions from other countries such as China. We are sick and tired of seeing our jobs go overseas or to illegal immigrants. Bring the jobs home where they belong. We are sick and tired of the war in Iraq and seeing our young men get injured, or God forbid, killed. Bring our boys home.

Fellow citizens, I urge you to write, e-mail, phone your Congressman, your Senator, your local politicians and tell them we are sick and tired of being treated this way and want reform now. No more excuses. It is time to clean up our country and give it back to the people.

Karen Loos

Prospect Heights