Tuesday 13 November 2007 - You have probably noticed the strong rhetoric.
I don't say things to simply get a reaction. If I am saying it, I mean it.
That doesn't mean that I don't think about how to best word things in an effort to have maximum impact.
Example number one, "Congress has harmed the American people more than Al-Qaeda." Let's look at that one a little bit. Al-Qaeda is responsible for, for arguments sake say, ten thousand American deaths. (3k on 9/11 and up to 7k via other since 1996...severely OVER estimating) Congress has acted to "help" the American people, now at 300 million plus, thousands of times since 1787. Congress can be held responsible to dozens of harmful actions to the American public by JUST looking at their use of the powers they took from us with the Sixteenth Amendment. For those of you who don't recall, the Sixteenth Amendment is what what brought "We The People" the federal income tax that we have ALL come to know and love.
Example number two, from yesterday's "Partyline" on KLIK, "We have gotten to the Congressional Equivalent of the 'Blue Screen of Death'...Control-Alt-Delete is not enough. Need to reach down and hit that power button for a hard reboot." Congress is at the point now where main thing that they can do is protect their own positions for the next elections. Look at opinion polls on Congress. If you ask a general question about how they are doing their job, the response is below twenty percent approval. BUT, if you go back and ask the question about how Americans feel THEIR Congressman and they like their guy. The other 434 are idiots, but my guy is fine?? What? I say, throw ALL of them out and start over. Easier to do in the house, but with six year terms, the Senate will take more work.
I am sincere in these feelings, but I acknowledge that this is a very far fetched concept. Not a pipe dream, but really a CRACK-Pipe dream. But it does help me shine a light on a problem.
Congress, and the White House, have lost focus on why they are there. They have all forgotten that "We The People" gave them these powers that they have abused. And "We The People" have been too damned lazy to do anything about it. That has allowed THEM to take more from US. Because they KNOW that "We The People" won't do anything about it.
We are too busy with the real important things in life. Like worrying about who will remain on "The Biggest Loser", "Dancing with the Has-Beens" or "American I-Dull"!!!
So yeah, I blame them. But I blame US more. We allowed it to get this way.
Starting back in 1790 or so.
