Posted by
Charlie on Thursday, June 14, 2007 1:46:46 PM
Where to begin? Illegal aliens? The trade deficit? Johnny Sutton's persecution of the border Patrol? No, let's get right to the root cause of our problems: Our un-representative government.
Anyone who thinks our government represents the average American, as it should, is living in a fool's paradise. Because of the obscene amount of money needed to run an election campaign these days our politicians have become captives of big business.
The businessmen who supply the financing for these campaigns are not patriotic Americans. Their only concern is profits. They will move jobs and even whole industries out of the country not because they can't make a profit here but because they can make bigger profits by having their products made by cheap foreign labor.
The latest polls show that both the president and congress have approval ratings below thirty per cent. It's hard to see how congress could have a lower approval rating than George Bush. I suppose that just shows that 535 cooks can screw things up worse than one incompetent.
So how do we change things? I believe the answer is to throw out the 535 old farts we now have running things and start over with a clean slate. Nothing puts the fear of God into these louts like the possibility of losing their cushy jobs. Once they see that incumbency and loads of campaign cash are no guarantee of re-election they might pay more attention to their constituents instead of the campaign contributors and ethnic groups.
It's true we might lose some of the few good people in Washington and some of the bums will be re-elected but if a large number of incumbents are defeated even the arrogant thick heads will get the idea that it might be their turn next.
So my advice is this: DON'T VOTE FOR INCUMBENTS!!!!
Next to a bloody revolution, as advocated by Thomas Jefferson, this may be the only way to regain control of our government.
And this makes me FURIOUS!!!