When I was in 3rd grade my 2 best friends got into a fight over a dollar. Best friend #1 wanted to spend the dollar on candy while best friend #2 wanted to save the dollar for a future purchase all the while both of them knowing that the dollar belonged to me. This is my dumbed down version of politics!
We have in this country 2 major political parties (sorry Tea-partiers.. not quite there yet) who have very different ideas on just about EVERYTHING. The problem with this discord of ideas is that these people are supposed ro be representing the will of US! Very recently we have been hearing of government shutdowns and debt ceilings and of course ELECTIONS. The Democratic party as a whole have a "spending spree" mentality that funds just about everything from studying a manure farm in Kentucky to helping Iowa farmers grow Cocoa (I wont go into too much detail why these are just useless ideas but take for granted that they are). Republicans on the other hand think this spending is FRIVOLOUS and want to cut spending drastically. Nothing would make me happier than balancing the budget and gettting spending under control...BUT before we think the Republican party is the greatest thing since sliced bread and are totally magnanimous in this goal, we have to realize that even they would want to spend well over their means if it suited their ideals. Whereas the Democrats would love to pump millions of dollars into funding public transportation, the Republicans would love to throw a billion dollars at the development of a stealth aircraft that may or may not help the military in the near future.
A little history lesson for us all, our 1st president (commonly listed as one of our greatest presidents) despised political parties for these very reasons.. The leader of this country 200 yrs ago knew what we seem to have a very difficult time grasping, that political parties are in fact more bad then good.
While the issues with the parties seem almost impossible to fix, there are simple solutions available. Politicians could LISTEN to their constituents. They could actually act on our behalf like they are supposed to do, if they choose not to then they are removed from office after 1 term. If we increase referendums on ballots and require politicians to vote in line with the answers given. Until the elected officeholders start listening to the voters the policies that are currently have this country in flux are doomed to continue. We need to have people representing us that have our ideals, our backgrounds, our needs in mind. When the only 2 people on a ballot are a lawyer who lives in a half million dollar house and makes $250,000 a year and a trust fund baby that has never worked a day in his/her life.... how can they possibly represent us, how can they possibly know what we need? They can't !!! Until the political landscape improves to a point that Joe the Plumber can run for office and WIN, no improvements seem likely.
I myself toyed with the idea of running for office in the 2012 elections but through research I found that it would cost me nearly a half million dollars to run for Congress.... a half million dollars, absolutely crazy money!!! We need someone like me to get this country back on track, back to its heyday, back to normalcy.
In the end I'm left with this... POLITICS, it's what is wrong with MY AMERICA
I'd vote for you:)
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