Fight fire with fire

Big money and special interests certainly have their voices heard, but what about us?  you write your senator, congressman or woman and you get a nice form letter back thanking you for your input.

The big boys get their pet projects put in front of the proper people by throwing money and favors at the people they want to impress.

Although we pay taxes, we have no control over what or where those hard earned tax dollars go to.
It may be time to form a citizens coalition that we can use to put our everyday and pressing problems front and center before those who have the power to do something positive about them.

You already have coalitions formed by groups like the Black caucus, the Hispanic caucus, a very power lobbying group representing the LGBT community.  You even have groups who are pushing the issue of legalizing illegal aliens who broke the laws of our country to come here.

Do you see anyone missing from that group?  Well it all of those hard working taxpayers who get up every day go to a job they may or may not want to go to.  They pay their bills, take care of their families, and do all the right things.  You will never hear most of them complain, but they are victims just like the rest because their voices have been drowned out by those who wave big money in the faces of the powers that be.

I'm sure Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin would go ballistic if they were to come back today and see how the county they helping create has been turned into a den of thieves.  We have the IRS who is supposed to be responsible for collecting and distributing the tax revenues for all of us.  They have lost billions and billions of dollars that can't be accounted for.

This can no longer stand.  The debt clock setting at 19 trillion and change will consume your child and your grand children if something is not done.  It may be time to ring the bell of freedom once again and fight the Tirane coming from the very body who was created to destroy it.

How this election will affect us here on Main st. USA

The presidential election of 2016 may be one of the most important election we have had since the great depression.  The stakes are high and the risks are great.  The problem is we have two presidential candidates who couldn't be farther apart regarding ideology and style of management.

This could end up being the perfect storm where factions all collide at the same time leaving a reeling and unknown future.  The fact is in this age of instant news and communications voters are able to tune into the matters that not only affect them, but also the entire planet.

In the case of the United States, the government you see today is hardly visible from the one created some 250 years ago.  The idea of government was to set up a governing body that kept the laws, protected personal freedoms and helped grow this nation.

Today our country has morphed into a behemoth with has become unsustainable and unmanageable.   There is some much bureaucracy that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

Couple that with the fact that the power of big money and special interest groups have left little time or attention for the work the people need done desperately.  Elected members of government use the electorate as a spring board into the Washington power base and spend more time bickering and arguing with others to leave much time to do anything.  Our national budget is spinning out of control while the spend thrift members of government think they have a money tree back behind congress that supplies an endless supply of cash for  whatever project they can come up with.  We cannot sustain the burden of those who expect the government to be there to provide for all their wants and needs.  And who gets stuck with all these costs?  You got it the American taxpayer.

The fact is both political parties have had their time at bat and the results usually aren't all that different.  It ends up being a bunch of rich and powerful who had to be wealthy just to put up the monies needed to compete for the office they sought.  And if large donors are part of that mix, then they expect something in return for their gracious gift.  Where does that leave all of us?  The same place we have been for some time.  Waiting outside our government for whatever scraps they happen to throw our way.

What we can do!  It seems to me that one of the biggest problems is once there people get elected you have to pry them out of their chairs to get them to leave.  The only way for us to affect change is to change the effect that we get from government by way of electing all new people until someone gets the message that we the taxpayers of this country are your boss and you work for us.