Michael1942's Blog

Politics-as defined in most dictionaries-the art or science of political government, another definition: the conducting of or engaging in political affairs, often professionally. Looking at the current Congress we have professional politicians who have no clue as to the needs of ALL of the people. These so called representatives of the people are swayed by either the loudest or most influential segment of the public. With the advent of mass media they have become devotees of sound bites and headline grabbing blurbs which do not give a full view of what is really needed to solve the massive problems we the little guys face daily. Someone mentioned that we should recall all of our representatives, my reply to that is that we can but only in the voting booth. It is unfortunate that many of us lose sight of the whole picture and concentrate on our own immediate needs and situations. Benjamin Franklin stated during the signing of the declaration of Independence :”We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately”. This still applies as the American public is as oppressed as the our founders were, while we can not be as easily “hung”, we are still being treated as second class by our very own elected officials. Our Congress over the years has enacted laws to their benefit while ignoring for the most part the needs and right of the voters. Why is it that Congress is not subject to the same retirement and medical benefits as their constituents ? This is due to their quietly enacted laws controlling their annual COLA, retirement and other perks that would be envied any Private sector manager. The question is: “Will we hang together or hang separately”?