We elect corporate servants

America, where are you now? There’s a problem with our collective memory.

Chief executive officers of multi-million dollar corporations still laugh in the faces of congressional inquiries while they continue to bilk hard-earned money from people, dodge their tax responsibilities with inversions, loopholes and other subterfuges not available to the common man, and get legislation passed that gives them even more power and profits while weakening the rights of voter/consumer.

So-called public servants should be renamed corporate servants because they greedily accept donations and gifts provided by Wall Street, PACs and company bigwigs. Then they have the unbelievable gall to tell the public that they’re working for the common people.

With the political circus getting into full clown mode, I have yet to hear real solutions to the problems here in this country; no real reform for the abuses of the powerful and corrupt. Candidates are just too busy bickering.

John Kay of the group Steppenwolf penned lyrics 45 years ago to a song called “Monster.” To those who read this letter, look up the lyrics to this song, then ask yourself this question: Have we learned anything since 1971? Doesn’t seem like it to me.

Jeff Nelson

Veradale