On May 21, the executives of the big oil companies were given a public tongue lashing by a committee of U.S. senators. My response to this is that if the oil executives deserved to be pilloried, then Congress deserves to be publicly executed! I don’t believe in capital punishment though, so life in prison will have to do.

Our country is governed from Washington, the President and Congress are both responsible for not only our energy crisis, but also our debt crisis and our health care crisis. Their idea of an energy policy is to subsidize the production of corn ethanol. As a result, we not only have the price of gas approaching $4 dollars per gallon but we also have the price of food skyrocketing.

We have two ruling parties in this country and when they are not blaming the oil executives or banking executives, they are blaming each other. The ruling parties are very successful at making us believe that the struggle for our nation’s future is between the Democrats and the Republicans. By doing so they perpetuate the two party system and their domination of our government. However, the real struggle is between “We The People” and our ruling parties. It is time for the citizens of this nation to hold our ruling parties responsible by voting them out of office. The Democrats and the Republicans have failed this nation. It is time we elect independent candidates who are free of the domination of our ruling parties

Sincerely,

Stephen Williams

Candidate for U. S. Senate, Independence Party of Minnesota