What Do You Speak Out About?

You can tell a lot about someone by what they are passionate about. The flip side is also what they are not passionate about says something also. Let's start with Haiti and the Americans who have been arrested. This is not the time for nice diplomacy. The Secretary of State, who is responsible for Americans travelling overseas, should be on her soap box demanding their release. She should be backed up by the President if her words are not heeded by the "government" of Haiti. Both have been largely silent on the subject.
This situation is even more important since it involves American citizens but is similar to the Guatemalan constitutional crisis, where our administration sided with Venezuela, against the Guatemalan constitution and with a fascist. Completely baffled on this one, and no hard questions were asked or answers given as to why.

President Obama has chosen to speak up about the bonuses on Wall Street but continues to pay out bonuses to federal workers. USA Today pointed out the fact that 18 months ago there was 1 (one) employee making more then $170,000 working in the Department of Transportation, today there are 1690 (one thousand six hundred ninety). That is $287,300,000 ($287 million) in payroll just for those 1690 employees not counting benefits as health & life insurance, along with paid time off which is convertible to cash PER YEAR. Where is the outrage?
How much of a raise did you receive this year? Are you just glad to be working? The disconnect between the political elite and the average American has grown so wide it is not sustainable.

If it was not so real it would be funny department- a comment I read referring to the Obama Administration as a remake as a reality show of the West Wing. ( a masterpiece of a series)
For a group that bills itself as so smart they sure do stupid things regularly. We should always question the intelligence of someone who is bragging how smart they are. They tend to over emphasis the importance of intelligence in running the country (see Welcome Back Carter).