Friday, September 30, 2011

We all Know Politicians Suck...

... But was mostly just sit on our butts and bitch.  I know we feel petty helpless and figure there is nothing we can do.  Isn't that what they want us to feel?  Look, this country is still a Democracy.  Yes, most of the politicians are in the  pocket of special interests and nobody seems capable of kicking them out into the street where they have to earn an honest living.

There is a reason for this.  Too many of us are content to sit at home and bitch and not willing to do anything about it.  It seems to big a mountain to climb.  Seems like they are all the same anyway.  All promises and hype and the same old shit when they get in office.  Maybe worse.

There is a reason for that.  They expect the American people to accept being screwed over all the time.  They are so used to the citizens of this country being apathetic about demanding the public servants they elect to represent them actually are doing that job instead of rushing to put both feet in the troth and gobbling  up everything they can get.

Apathy.  That is our biggest enemy if we want to change the way things are in our country.  I'm neither a Democrat or a Republican.  I hate them both equally.  But they seem to be a necessary evil until we have the intestinal fortitude to create a centrist party dedicated to the working, middle class and get rid of both of the old guard parties who have forgotten what America really means. 

There are some things that just should not be allowed.  The first is 'earmarks'.  The Good Ole Boy network at its finest.  Every PENNY spent by the federal government should be approved by Congress with every vote on record.  But the earmarks are just back door deals between politicians to bypass the right of all Americans to know how our money is spent and why.

The second is the gross inequality of the Congress of the United States passing laws which only apply to them and not to all Americans.  These laws give them a full retirement after one term.  Where else can you  hold a job for two years and get your full pay for the rest of your life?  Where else can you have the wonderful health care they have given themselves? 

Then there is their ability to pass laws that apply only to themselves and, boy, do they pass themselves some doozies.  And, then, they can pass laws that apply to US but not to Them.  Again, they have passed some doozies.  Don't take my word for it.  The Internet is there and free.  Use your favorite search engine and look into it.

It is wrong and the ONLY reason they get away with it is because WE allow it.  We're too lazy to find out what is going on and too apathetic to try to do anything about it.  As long as that is true the people who say it will never change are going to be correct.  It will only change when enough Americans take action and demand it change.

Write to  your congressmen expressing your opinions of their behaviour.  And if they either ignore you or send you some bs form letter.... kick their lying butts out of office.  And keep on doing that until somebody gets elected who actually has a clue  and the balls (metaphorically speaking as it sure could be a woman) to stand up to the status quo and special interests and fight for what is right for all Americans.

Also there is a movement for a twenty-eighth amendment to the Constitution that I believe should be supported.  If we can't kick enough of them out to make a difference maybe we can force this amendment to be put out to all Americans to approve or disapprove as they feel is right.   I think there are not nearly enough people aware of this and the more that know the better off we will all be and the more the politicians will worry that the American Citizens may finally get pissed off enough to actually take back their own country.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/28thamendment.asp

Take a look and make up your own minds.

1 comment:

  1. Technically, we are not a democracy, but a republic. That always makes me shake my head, as we try to force democracy on other countries. We have a semi-democratic process but congress makes us a republic.

    Really, I think we are an empire. A crumbling one.

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