This past November, the citizens of this great country voted to take control away from the Republican party, and give it to the Democrats. No one was greatly surprised at the outcome, for there was good reason to look for a change.
Actually things weren't all that bad . . . the economy was in good shape, the bottom had not yet dropped out of the housing market, unemployment as a percentage of the total populace was not all that bad . . . we had several million unemployed, most of whom were unemployed by choice, but that could have been handled easily by a few simple laws that would set limits on how many relief checks an individual could collect over a reasonable period of time, and by prosecuting those who were receiving more than one check at a time. The war in Iraq was being badly mismanaged, we were allowing Iran to spit in our faces in the Mid-east, and the Columbians were shipping drugs by the plane load into our markets. The biggest problem that most of us were concerned about, aside from the war, was the influx of millions of Mexicans across our borders, which our president said he found no fault with, because we had no labor force to do the kind of stoop labor that the Mexicans were willing to do. Of course, we did have millions of citizens drawing relief checks who were not even looking for jobs, and could not have found them anyway, because they hadn't learned the three R's in school . . . that is, they couldn't have found jobs that paid what they would have liked, but they could have done the same work that the Mexicans were coming over here to do!
Be that as it may. We just kicked out the Republicans and hired the Democrats to clean up the mess in Washington and now, here we are, going into the second quarter of the first year the Democrats have controlled both houses of Congress, and what have they accomplished? Why, instead of working on the problems mentioned above and others not mentioned, they are sitting up there drawing big salaries to argue among themselves, and to conduct a big political investigation into why 8 prosecutors were fired a short time ago!
Let me ask each of you a question: Do you believe that an employer does not have the right to discharge any employee for good reason? When air traffic controllers refused to go to work, tying up the nations primary transportation system, and all over a wage dispute, President Reagan fired the whole lot of them! Do you believe that the man who invests his money in a business has no right to run that business in the way that he feels he needs to, if he wants to stay in business? Did we hire 400 plus Congressmen and 100 senators to sit up there on their posteriors and haggle over the jobs of 8 prosecutors who were fired by their boss for what he thought was good reason. If any of the 8 felt that he had been wrongfully or illegally fired, why hasn't he sought protection under the laws of the land? I seem to recall that, during the election campaign last year, that everytime we asked the Democrats to define their plans for running the country if they were elected, none stepped forward to offer a plan! Please understand that I am not saying that we should have kept the Republicans in office. I am simply pointing out that, having thrown them out, how have things improved? As a matter of fact, once any politician gets into office, he seems to forget everything that he was supposed to do to improve things when he got elected, and so he sits up there, each of them shooting at the members of the other party, and leaves the country to run itself! And we, poor fools that voted them into office, cannot do a thing about it!
Well, now wait a minute . . . I have allowed myself to get slightly carried away! Here I sit at my computer, blogging away, hoping to arouse some enthusiasm on the part of fellow bloggers to stir things up, and get these misguided politicians back to work! Now, it is an accepted fact that bloggers have become a major influence on events and such in just a few years. If you think, as I do, that when a person is hired to do a job, and he doesn't do it, he should at least be strongly reprimanded by his employer, and aren't we the employers of those politicians? And if we speak as a unified voice loudly enough, does it not seem reasonable that we can get them worried about the next election? After all, that is only a year or so away for many of them, and so why don't we just speak loudly and say that if they do not get their act together, we will fire every incumbent who runs for election in the next four years, and in every election thereafter? And, beleive me, if we get them to really understand that this is not just idle talk, but exactly what we will do, they will get their act together, and they will handle any miscreants amoung them who do not toe the line!
What do we want them to do? Well, how about closing the borders of our country, and if the president of Mexico doesn't like it, then we can revoke NAFTA, as well. And what about doing something real about the Social Security mess, instead of just talking about it? And how about firing all the incompetent federal judges scattered around the country? And how about either putting a large enough force of troops in Iraq to do the job, or pulling all of them out? And how about throwing the United Nations out of our country . . . they are trying to get us to agree to a sort of one nation rule in the world, with the UN running everything. They want to have the right to raise taxes on the citizens of this country, when we are already paying most of the costs of operating that den of two-bit nations who always vote against us, no matter what! And what about giving the President the line-item veto, which would bring a halt to a lot of the taxpayer money that is being used to get these politicians re-elected?
So have I rattled your cages long enough? Is there anyone out there with the courage to stand up for his rights, besides this 85 (almost) year old man? And do we need to run our own candidate for president and congressman and senator in future elections? Hey, if you want to do big things, you have to think big!
O.K., now it is your turn . . . let's see what you are made of!
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Henry, I think you're being unkind to those 8 U.S. Attorneys who were canned. They were not fired because of incompetency. They were canned because they refused to cave in to Republican demands to pursue cases that had no merit and had only partisan political implications. That's not the way our justice system is supposed to work.
mortart, mi amigo,I didn't say that they were incompetent, just that they were fired by their boss, and that the boss ought to have the right to fire any employee if he thought that he needed to do so to stay in business. My big pitch was that our senators and congressmen were sent to Washington to handle big business, and there is no way that the firing of 8 employees of the government can be considered reason for between five and six hundred high paid employees of our governement sitting up there arguing about it when we have real problems that they should be working out solutions to correct.
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