Why we have so many American problems

About the Book

After a life time of seeing this Country we love, developing problem, after problem, and not fixing any of them, some one had to speak out. Just stop and think about any problem that comes to mind, gas prices, health care, lost jobs, or a hundred others you could come up with. What caused them? It wasn’t the people, or a terrorist, business, or an enemy, it was the Governments actions, or inactions. Our government of the people, by the people, and for the people, is supposed to be a representative democracy. Represent is the word lost, the people we send to Washington think representing us, is them doing as they please.  From our President, to our Senators and representatives, they tell us what is good for us, and dictate what we must endure. Our political party system, has become like two Mafia gangs, trying to take the other out to run the show. No matter which is in power, the crimes are the same. We are to blame because we let these people who are our hired help, forget this fact, and think they are like exalted rulers. They have used politics to divide us, gave us divided Government, and divided and conquered us. A divided people can not stand, can we ever be one people, one nation under God, one for all, and all for one, as some men dreamed.

About the Author

James C. Barnes was born in the year 1944 in Erie Pa.  His father was killed in an accident during the war when he was one year old. He, and his sister were raised by a single mother, for years before she remarried. With a new step father, they moved to the suburbs of Erie, and lived a comfortable normal life through his teens.  After getting out of school,  he went to work moving from job, to job to better himself as time went on. He married his childhood sweetheart at age nineteen, and with both of them working they did well for a young married couple. He honed his skills, and held several supervisory positions, also running several small businesses on the side, while working full time for others. He went out on his own and started a trailer manufacturing, and welding business. One day a neighbor and customer asked him if he would like to move to a bigger shop, and start and run a second business along with the one he had. That second business was and oilfield supply store, to sell everything needed to drill and operate oil and gas wells. He knew absolutely nothing about this business, but was given a two foot thick set of volumes about the business. In a matter of weeks he was running a thriving welding business catering to the oilfield, and a store that supplied what ever they needed. His first year grossed three and a half million dollars, and the business was respected even by competitors. A move by Congress after three and a half years, caused it all to be lost.