Political — warning
This one is about politics. You have been warned.
I have been thinking and talking and listening. There is a lot of grousing about how things are going. Unemployment is high, the economy is bumping along but not recovering as we would like it to. Politicians are making promises about health care that our grand children are going to have to pay for. If you listen to the news you can get really depressed so I don’t listen. Some would say I am playing ostrich and burying my head (they don’t really do that you know :)) but I would say that I am taking the only path I have open to me.
I am planning for election day!!!
There are 435 congressmen, 100 senators, 1 president. 536 people. People just like you and me and we have the chance to fire them. Technically we could fire almost all of them at once. The senators and the president are on a different schedule but ALL of the congressmen and a third of the Senators are up for ‘renewal’ in November of 2010.
I have decided on one thing and on one exception. I will vote AGAINST any incumbent (already in office) UNLESS they are signed on to the FairTax bill in their house. Congressmen can sign on to HR25 for the House of Representative and S296 for the Senate. You can check on them at www.FairTax.org of you want to know who is in and who is out.
Getting the FairTax in could solve a whole bunch of problems. Our economy would flourish, unemployment would plummet, new businesses would start and we would be the economic powerhouse we once were. It would also remove much of the power in Washington DC by limiting what the special interest groups could do limiting corruption so they do a lot of speaking out against it.
If you want to know more (you’re going to have to do some reading on your own) you can go to www.FairTax.org and learn. It is possible TO read it because it is not nearly as complex as our current tax code.
If you want to make a real difference, stop watching the news and start reading for yourself from their sources. Don’t let them just report ‘all the news we think you should know’ (that’s a quote from a news anchor). Read some history from books like The Forgotten Man (by Amity Shlaes) about the Great Depression and what the politicians tried to do and plan your own vote for next November. It is really the only thing you CAN do. Everything else is just grousing.
My choice to replace an incumbent will always be a Libertarian if one is running but I will vote for anyone that will make a change. We need to upset the cart for these guys and gals that have gotten so comfortable that they think it is about them.
It is not about them. It is about this country and what it stands for. We do not want to conquer the world. We want to bring freedom to choose who your leaders are and how you live your life. We have not acquired land for ourselves from another country except to bury our dead. (check out Normandy and some of the other sites sometime)
I got a little long on this one and there is more to come. If you disagree with me that is ok. That is the way things are supposed to work in this country but we are still friends and we still respect each other and our opinions.
Our government has gotten out of hand and I don’t think there is all that much difference between the Democrats and the Republicans. We really need a third party if we are going to get this fixed and it might not be the Libertarians but they have a better plan than the other two. If you have another option I would love to hear it. Call me.
Alright, I’m done for now.
Thanks for listening,
Jerry W. Robertson