Almost every time someone pops up and says they're the person for the job, from one or the other party. Most of us choose at some point hoping it's really going to be different, hoping there will be a cleansing. We expect corruption to be rooted out and a realization of accountability. But when has that happened? When's the last big hauling in front of Congress major government officials ending in actual accountability? Which party will do that?

Failing to exorcize corrupt officials is merely one manifestation of the nowhere we've been moving towards. It's failing to stand for the good of the majority of Americans. This failure extends to our growing income gap. The middle income to lower income populace is the simply lacks financial growth. For many of us we've seen a steady downward slide even before this recession.

"For much of the post-World War II era, workers were rewarded when their productivity improved. (Productivity is basically output per worker per hour.) The numbers tracked quite closely until the recession of 1973. Since then, wage gains have failed to keep pace with productivity.

'At least within this past decade, employers didn't feel any pressure to have to hire more workers and entice them with higher wages,' says Harry Holzer, a former chief economist with the Labor Department now affiliated with the Urban Institute and Georgetown University.

'Even before the recession started, you had almost a complete [business] cycle where you had very high productivity growth and virtually none of it showed up in the wages of the median worker, adjusted for inflation.' " (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124003086) Tax cuts and deregulation did not help neither did the personal morals or patriotism of corporation's CEOs and Trustees.

We've been sold on a bill of goods over and over with the butts of the folks responsible for so much corruption being allowed out of the sling. We had hopes for something new a change so we gave the people who said they could deliver the tools to do it. It would not last like everything in a Democracy, but we expected results. We had already seen what the promises of the other guys did.

Oh boy we do not want a repeat of that. For those of us middle to lower income Americans we're either still digging ourselves out of a ditch or bailing the water out of the bottom of our boats depending on our situation. Before things really began sliding trends were worse than our lifestyles led us to believe. Credit bought us golden shovels and golden oars only slowing the digging process and quickening the sinking.

"In fact, the long-standing trend of growing income inequality accelerated between the late 1990s and the mid-2000s (the latest period for which state data are available). On average, incomes have declined by 2.5 percent among the bottom fifth of families since the late 1990s, while increasing by 9.1 percent among the top fifth. In 19 states, average incomes have grown more quickly among the top fifth of families than among the bottom fifth since the late 1990s.

In no state has the bottom fifth grown significantly faster than the top fifth. For very high-income families — the richest 5 percent — income growth since the late 1990s has been especially dramatic, and much faster than among the poorest fifth of families.

Similarly, families in the middle of the income distribution have fallen farther behind upper-income families in many states since the late 1990s. On average, incomes have grown by just 1.3 percent among the middle fifth of families since the late 1990s, well below the 9.1 percent gain among the top fifth." (http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=255)

We know things are only worse now and most economists agree no matter who's in power the current unemployment rate may be slow to recover. That is not the fault of all charged with fixing our economy now as not all were a part of the cause. The current figures are rooted in poor policy and lax enforcement going back years we are now paying the price for.

There are those now bringing fresh voices to the table. It is new faces we need and fresh voices ready to bring real change and speak up when there is something stopping them from doing so instead of acquiescing to well… letting go. That's what people want to see. We need something beyond bipartisan thinking. We need non-partisan thinking. We need thinking beyond either one party or the next.

We need the "for good of the majority of all Americans" thinking. Though the Tea Party doesn't speak for all Americans they have revitalized a voice from a segment of America who's voice was lost invested in someone else. They showed cracks in a party they once followed. People are fed up with the current arrangement people can respect the Tea Party for that.

We don't all agree with them, but we hear some of their message loud and clear. The country needs more of that. Though the Tea Party are very closely aligned with Republican lobbyists like Dick Armey (http://www.teapartypatriots.org/AboutUs.aspx), the country needs more spirited independents from left, right and center. Voices showing they are free from party affiliation, have inspired many to speak up about how they feel. Frustration and feeling let down permeates America now.

They say the minority party is usually the "do nothing party" however the Democrats were the "do nothing Dems" then, and for some reason are known as the "do nothing Dems" now. They could change that by working hard now and campaigning ubiquitously and intensely to the point of sweating to show they represent working women and men as they say they do. Otherwise, just as conservatives sought a new place so will those center-left.

Ron Paul recently warned the Tea Party he helped form of weakening by moving from independents to being a co-option of one or another of the other parties. Recent elections wins pushed by them displayed if an independent you cannot rely on other parties to do things for you. But, imagine where would that election have gone without the Tea Party?

We need a message like theirs whether we agree with it or not to inspire more folks to do the same. Sometimes change comes because a perpetual state of disappointment reveals itself for what it is. It happens whenever those doing the disappointment get too comfortable.

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