A nation, a state, a county without regulation

To whom it probably does not concern: A nation, a state, a county without regulation. Does anyone not see a pattern here?. Our nation is in an economic crisis because of deregulation. Our state just killed the Florida Department of Community Affairs (DCA) the only effective state agency regulating growth. And our county leaders do everything in their power to remove regulations from government and business. Human beings without limitations and structure wind up in mental hospitals or in jail; nations wind up covered in oil or broke, some speaking Greek. States and counties wind up looking like Broward orCollier Counties marching over the Everglades and Big Cypress as though they never existed when the function of the DCA is removed. And not a word in the Miami Herald about that; wonder why. When we allow lobbyists to populate our halls and offices of government, putting them closer to the people who make and administer our laws and rules than the people who live under them, what else can we expect? Due to apathy and disinterest or through misguided active support of such policies, we are too late to realize that no one is really flying the plane. We have lost control of our children through deregulation of them, abandoning them to raise each other instead of providing the traditional values and principles of our culture for them. They wind up in Congress shouting out to our president as the speaks. We can blame the Republicans whose platform and mission are deregulation and zero taxes, but they could not have achieved this dysfunctional level alone. Every elected official and every citizen who acquiesced along the road to our present state of affairs is culpable. What happened to campaign finance reform?; too painful a pill to swallow? If you don't take your medicine, you'll stay sick We didn't, and we are. Maybe I should write these words on a tenement wall so others can look back like we can to Simon and Garfunkle and Dylan's words warning us that we would be where we are now, without the morals or values to recognize when our major financial institutions have perpetrated an unregulated multi-trillion dollar derivative market swindle for their own benefit. And the 9/11 hi-jackers were able to pull off their disgusting attack because they knew no one was watching the store; it was full of a swiss cheese of regulation and administration. No one was watching the store. That is how those who would see us fail will succeed; they will facilitate our lack of control, whether inside or outside of our great but stumbling nation. Time for a reality check my friends. The piper will be paid.