Who's side is the U.S. government on?

The federal government of the United States, in theory, is supposed to represent the people of the U.S. Yet, recent items in the news make me wonder if that's true in practice.

For example, how can the President, the head of the government claim to represent the people of the United States when he openly calls for the Congress to expanded the H-1B program to allow more foreign workers into to our country into the field of computer engineering and software development while their U.S. counterparts remain underemployed?

And along those same lines, how can the executive branch of the federal government claim the enforcement power of our nation's laws when the head of that branch of government wishes to reward lawbreakers who cross our borders illegally with employment and other benefits?

And speaking of borders, why does the government feel the borders of another country thousands of miles away from the U.S. are more important to defend than those right here at home? Would Mexican drug gangs and their military puppets make incursions into the U.S. and violate those borders if the military that's currently in Iraq was suddenly stationed at the border it swore an oath to defend?

Those troops, of course, are trying to help with the reconstruction of societies damaged by the so-called War on Terror. And yet, some whole neighborhoods in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast remain in ruins from recent hurricanes. Why does the government feel it more important to rebuild foreigner's lives but not their own people's?

And why does government that has billions of dollars taken from the people of the U.S in the name of that representation get to spend such monies each year in aid and assistance to nations and peoples not our own. Don't they have governments in such places?
How the can the government say we’re at war and yet refuse to make it official with a Constitutionally mandated Declaration of War and then not ask much in the way of sacrifice for that war? What a strange way to fight.

Then you have a government that deems it necessary to intervene in a private medical case to keep one person alive. But then why won't it do anything to protect the millions of lives of the unborn?

And why does a government that claims free speech and democracy as a universal rights suddenly ask foreign newspapers to censor a cartoon that offended many Muslims? Is that being hypocritical (or being a suck-up more likely)?

Here's another brain teaser: Why does government write laws to regulate the safety of the nation's minds and doesn't even bother enforce such laws? What does the regulating body, MHSA, do with itself all day, play paper football in the office? What does it do with the money it receives to do they job they apparently are not willing to do? Spend it on take-out?

Here's the biggest stumper of all: Why does the government insist that Iran given up any aspirations of having nuclear weapons but does not require the same action from Israel, nor ask for similar inspections at Israel's nuclear weapons complex at Dimona?

Actually, that last question is pretty easy to answer once you get to know the neocons. The rest of the questions leave a lot to ponder.

- Sean Scallon