A lot of people are upset about “the government.” And there’s a lot to be upset about, from the lack of personal ethics displayed by state legislators like Sen. Phil Rockefeller, sponsor of the “title only” tax bill (that is, it’s blank—they’ll write it later) that had its “public hearing” in today’s legislative session, to every member of any legislature (especially the U.S. Congress) who votes for spending with no intention of seeing that the bills get paid.
But the worst of it all, is how these people came to power. Not one of them marched into a capital as part of a conquering army. And though some were born or married into wealth and power, no one can actually get to Congress that way.
These rogues and scoundrels were nearly all elected … by the people. Most of our worst politicians were elected fair and square, put into power by the people even as they compete to see how quickly they can regulate, tax, and indebt us into oblivion.
This is our crisis and our opportunity. Too many voters are suckered by candidates promising a free lunch and other too-good-to-be-true government “bargains.” Yet every politician is vulnerable at election time.
trent,
I fond you had a website! Awesome. I can’t wait for the updates.
Dog, you are right on. I read that bill and noticed there are nine other demo(n)crats with their names on it. What?!?!?! did they each contribute one word to that bill? Ha, what a crack up you are. I wish I had the time to look over all this legislation. Thanks for doing the hard work.
ps. Keep sticking it to that dork Walter.