"I cannot for the life of me understand how as a nation we stand by and let this happen."
I'm not trying to intentionally be a d-bag about that statement, but what have you you personally done to prevent this?
No problem Slingshot I am constantly making the very same statement
I am one of those annoying people you see with signs outside voting places, call your home from the phone banks while you are eating dinner or sitting at the reloading bench as well as last November I personally spent $685 to run a 1/4 page ad in our paper begging the local population to vote a more conservative thought process.
I too subscribe to the philosophy, either do something about it or dont beach... I did enough to complain.