When
I posted last week’s column one of my readers offered a comment that
they had never known a politician that could be trusted. This reader
opined that they were all dishonest crooks.
To
some of you that might seem harsh. Yet to others it might seem rather
tame. The problem comes when people are put into position where they can
harm others by their dishonesty. It also seems that regardless of the
ethics of an individual when they are elected, they appear overcome with
their new sense of power and all the money that flows around them. In
just a matter of days, they become Washington elites with little or no
regard for the voters of their district who put them into the office in
the first place.
I
myself am a bit of a skeptic. Now I know most of you will find that
difficult to believe, but it is true. This is what I think must happen
when a newly elected legislator gets to Washington. He or she is brought
before their party leadership and told the following. “Welcome to the
best job you will ever have. You have just hit the lottery. You
basically now have the ability to print money. You have all of this not
because you have been chosen by the voters to serve your constituency,
but because we are going to allow you to continue in that position. All
you have to do is follow instructions and don’t rock the boat. You have
been elected to serve a two year term but if you have any intention of
being re-elected, you will have to do as you are told. We have the
ability and the means to see that you are re-elected and we also have
the means to get rid of you. Oh, and by the way, all that nonsense you
told the voters to get them to vote for you in the first place, forget
about it. We will decide how and what you will vote on from this point
on. You are now a member of the most exclusive club on earth, don’t mess
it up.”
Rarely does anyone dare to mess it up.
The
only way this is going to change is for the voters to take their
country back. The first and most obvious way is term limits. Believe me,
Congress will never pass any term limits because it would kill the
goose that lays their golden egg. We the people must exercise term
limits by refusing to re-elect anybody regardless of who they are. The
idea of career politicians is repulsive. The idea of Congressional
leaders being selected because of their seniority is ridiculous. I don’t
believe our Founding Fathers ever conceived of career politicians. Ours
was always supposed to be a citizen legislature.
Today
the majority of this country has little trust in their elected
representation. Let’s face it, politicians have done little to earn that
trust.
Look
at the scandals infecting the Obama Administration. The primary role of
Congress is oversight and funding. Where have they been? Did you know
that Obamacare cannot go forward unless the House of Representatives
funds it? Did you know that the House also funds the IRS? In fact it is
the job of the House, currently controlled by Republicans, to fund all
of government. Today we know that the IRS blew eighty million dollars on
“conferences and team building.” Are they crazy? Where is the
oversight? It does little good to lock the barn after the horse has
already escaped.
I
truly wish we could once again trust our government. I wish the liars
in Washington were prosecuted and run out of town. Our republic is
fragile and it won’t continue to hold up under the strain of dishonesty.
Wouldn’t it be great to feel good about government? Wouldn’t it be
great to trust once again?
Ron Scarbro June 5, 2013
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1 comment:
Ron, my opinions are beginning to awaken in another direction and more douer than previous. As I observe the acts and attached results of the country's rulers, I'm beginning to see repetitive evidence of brash arrogance, unafraid subtefuge, open deceit and a fullblown, disregard for consequences. And why not? NO ONE...NOT ANYONE, other than us choir members, are holding them to any responsibility and we're just talk! The media shapes their message (and the battlefields where the inept Right falls daily on its sword) and protects the Rulers from harm. Meanwhile, they run roughshod over our Constitution without fear and continue unabated, while we gnash our teeth in hearings, without any affect. obama puts Rice, "THE LIAR", above reproach as his NSA, all for carrying his & Hillary's (our next Thief-in-Chief) murderous lies. Holder makes his own laws, abuses our freedoms and when called to account, says, "I'm not stepping down" (and basically, you can't make me...and we obviously CAN'T!) His underlings and administration IRS colleagues (you mark my words) will be exonerated and ultimately rewarded. The destruction of this Country is their collective goal and the evidence is mounting. I don't care what you're political beliefs, intelligent people don't enact the strategies this administration has initiated for any other purpose and can only do so successfully within a climate of collusion and malicious agenda, period! Printing money with no end, spending money with no end, disregard for rationale, disregard for convention, enacting policies and laws that are ABSURD and openly denegrate our society & economy, flaunting without fear of consequence and with no regard for opinion, sewing discord between races & groups for personal and policy agendas...and the media shapes all and these assertions aren't opinion, THEY'RE FACT!
Yesterday, 'Kerry the ketchup King' issued a statement that we (OUR COUNTRY) will sign the UN Gun Treaty, whereby the UN will dictate to us, AMERICAN CITIZENS, our gun laws. Our 2nd Amendment, in the stroke of a pen, will go away. We, as citizens, will NO LONGER be able to repel, nor defend against, our government. After the 2nd Amendment falls, the rest that separates us from other cultures, will topple like dominos, as they re-write our role in the world (as well as our history for future generations) and marginalize our effects. I've never been a conspiracy theorist and have laughed and rebuked when approached with such because I believed I lived in the country of Eisenhower, Truman & Reagan. My resolve is cracking, as I'm beginning to reconsider the ruling shadows behind the curtain, 'globalists', the creation and continuance of the Federal Reserve system, the IRS, the self-important supremecy flaunted by Congress and the comments confidently made over open mike by obama to Medvedev, back to Putin (paraphrase) "Tell Vlademire not to worry, I'll have more room after the coming election". He knew he was going to win and it wasn't bravado, HE KNEW! I'm becoming more and more 'concerned-to-convinced' that our view of our government is a farce, our elections aren't ours and our representatives are self-indulged, larcenous, self-important and our rulers! And like the email I forwarded recently of the German's view of Muslims, contrasted against his memory of the Nazi's overtaking his country when he was younger, we will be, or I'm concerned, ARE lost before we wake up and even know it! And soon, we're gonna sign the UN GUN Law Treaty and drones are being introduced in our skys and 'Big Brothuh' has been tracking phone communications for 7 years now, all while we're distracted by this media crafted diversion or that government smoke screen and focus our collective interests on Hollyweird's crap. Convince me I'm a damn fool.! Can I please take the blue pill???
Jwo-
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