So here's the first thing that I wanted to share with you as something we should all be thinking about...
It seems to me that our country is struggling. Badly. We are buried under a mountain of debt. We seem to have adopted the philosophy that personal responsibility is for someone else. Freedom is a only a word on a bumper sticker, or something the Iraqi's don't have.
Here is a chunk of some text from 545 PEOPLE By Charlie Reese. It can be found in its entirety on the Republicans for Obama.org website. It was emailed to me by a friend and I found it to be an interesting treatise on how we got where we are...which I will admit, I believe, is a very bad and dangerous place to be.
545 PEOPLE
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems we face in this country.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they WANT to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.
If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone, have that power. They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people, who are their bosses
....provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
What you do with the obvious truths of this article, now that you have read it...is up to you.
Since this is my blog, and my opportunity to opine...I would like to suggest that we stop voting for our own selfish interests (and these power grabbing individuals) and begin to put the collective good of this country and our children ahead of our immediate personal interests. These individuals are bankrupting what was once the most prosperous and successful country on the planet - not bankrupting you and me...we have a little time (on the backs of our parents and theirs, and yes, even the chinese...all of whom gave us a heck of a head start), but it is clear they are bankrupting our children. And we are letting them. We do so by continuing to vote them in to office despite clear evidence that they have created the mess we are in. We do it because they promise us another benefit, entitlement, or social program - and we wait for them to provide us with social security, or health insurance, with medicare, or cash for clunkers and a home tax credit bail out... When will we retake our country? When will we accept personal responsibility...for our own security, our own health care, our own car or a place for our family to live...and for our own country.
Please consider how you are complicit - and make a change.
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