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.