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I’ve been hearing, and then reading in today’s paper, about various of our representatives and senators who are being threatened by members of our populace. While it is regrettable, it should not be unexpected.
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
When there is talk of overhauling anything, you will never hear our federal government mentioned and yet the federal government is probably the most antiquated, out of touch, cumbersome, greedy, chaff-like bunch of blowhards grouped together anywhere on earth.
While they depend on us, their constituents to elect them to office, often that is the end of their relationship with us. While they are trying to be elected they say things that they think we want to hear. However, there is no connection between what they say to us and what they actually do for us. Doing for us is the least of their concerns once elected to office. Making bigger and larger government, lining their pockets with lobbyist dollars, and living a lifestyle only they are privy to is what consumes them once in office.
It is paramount these days that if you plan on walking into the Capitol Building you must automatically leave your integrity and the desires of your constituents outside the door! It doesn’t matter how many of your constituents jam your phone lines or how many thousands of emails you get asking, no begging you to vote a big fat NO on a subject, your seem to think that your job as a representative of the people is only to do whatever the nearest lobbyist or senior senator or representative wants you to do.
Regardless of how many times we vote you out and vote someone new in, we fail to effect any change and that’s because there is no longer even one good person who can stand firm, stick with the constituents, do as they ask. To a man, everyone can now be bought. Every man has his price and isn’t afraid to ask for it. Constituents? Who are they?
“States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.” ~ Noam Chomsky
To our discredit, we, the voters have sat back infinitely too many years allowing these shenanigans to go on. I think we did it because we weren’t so much affected – we still had our jobs, our bank accounts. Life was comfortable.
Well, life is changing. Life is no longer comfortable for us. Suddenly we see what you’re doing over there, how well you are living. We recognize, even if you don’t, that the $1.5 trillion that you’ve thrown at cheating, lying banks and car companies is coming out of our over picked pockets. Now, against all sanity, you’ve managed to throw another gazillion billion at a health care plan that is past the ridiculous – even though we asked you not to. Next on the horizon? Taking over the educational system and loans for higher education!
Other countries are getting tired of your approaches for more loans, more money. Your interest rates are going higher as you pass out money you don’t have. You think you can just tax us; but we can no longer afford to give you our money because you’ve worked it out wonderfully that most of our jobs, and our income, have evaporated into the Chinese, Japanese, and Mexican air through the world treaties that you’ve created!
“It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” ~ Samuel Adams
Americans are holding tea parties because we are now angry: angry at ourselves for having allowed you to hoodwink us for so
long; angry that we’ve let you get away with it all. Americans want to take our country back, out of your misshapen hands and darkened minds and put it back on keel before we all find ourselves as the first of a new form of third world nation – the bankrupt, bereft, 300 million victims of choices made by 535 men and women!
You won’t listen. You won’t pay attention. You don’t vote according to what your constituents desire. In your pit of avarice you convince yourselves that you know better what we need here in the Mahoning Valley (or Anywhere, USA) than we do. Well, you don’t and in the current climate, sooner or later, you will pay a price. There is a consequence for every action; the choice of that consequence is yours.
“You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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