Commitment Issues?

The New Media Journal ^ | August 11, 2009 | Lady Liberty

[NewMediaJournal]

We've got a problem in America, and it's not just our politicians. It's us. We like to blame the politicians, of course, and sadly, they usually deserve it. We even like to chastise them by reminding them that they work for us, not the other way around. And yet we all to often forget that fact ourselves.

One of the reasons I think we tend to let things slide is because we don't think about it until it's our own ox being gored. We're committed to our own interests, but that's as far as it goes. Sometimes we can't even say that much.

In recent months, we've seen an unusual number of people get fired up about taxes. Tea Parties are being held across the nation, and with good reason: taxes are going up, and proposals currently on the table in Washington make it likely they'll go up a lot more and soon. On April 15, I attended a local Tea Party and was thrilled to see so many people ready and willing to take action. Faced with a hard hit in the pocketbook not to mention the debt their children would owe, it seemed plenty of people had plenty to say.

[jimt]

While I understand the point of the article, and it’s practical, it’s also sad.

It’s sad that politicians feel the need to rip me off to help their buddies, to constrain my freedoms for their benefit, to try to control every aspect of my life.

Do we really need 10,000 pages of federal regulations ? Do we really for there to be a crime of “possessing a firearm for unlawful purposes” ? I’ll bet you money that you can’t live a normal day without breaking some of Big Brother’s laws.

This is supposed to be America, the land of the free and the home of the brave. When I have to spend a significant amount of time watching the damn politicians, there’s something wrong.

Politics may be a fact of life, but it’s one I intensely dislike.