You Are Not The Boss Of Me

I am BAAAAACK!!!

That's right you are not the boss of me...the you being the Government.  We are living in difficult times.  Ridiculous gas prices that affect the cost of damn near everything else are making people feel victimized.  As I talk to people about the economy, politics, and what not, folks invariably say 'Oh well...there's nothing we can do'.  They think that politicians are always going to look out for themselves at the expense of the people they are supposed to serve...that's right SERVE!

I see things differently (there's a surprise).  I think things should and CAN be exactly as they were intended to be.  The United States of America is a democracy (at least it was). Rule of the people, by the people and for the people.  Over many many decades we as a people have willingly surrendered our power.  We let politicians create laws and policies that serve their own narrow interests. We let them spend this country into a black hole of debt.  We let them take us into an immoral war in Iraq, and we let them refuse to do SOMETHING to restrain the price of fuel.  

Our elected officials have no respect for us for the same reason that an abusive husband has no respect for the wife he brutalizes...we let them do it.  As long as we are apathetic, as long as we feel there is nothing we can do, as long as we refuse to get involved...our elected officials will continue to abuse and neglect us.

Now I can't lie...I've only written complaints to a politician a couple of times so this smack down is just as much for me as it is for most Americans.  GET OFF YOUR BEHINDS AND DO SOMETHING!!!!!  If you are not happy with the state of affairs write to your congressman or senator.  Go to a town hall meeting and let your will be known.  VOTE!!!  Talk to your friends and neighbors about empowerment rather than mass victimization.  We defeated the mighty British Empire...What happened to us???  We got intellectually fat, lazy, and pitiful!

But we can change.  The government is not our boss...I am the boss and you are the boss.  Want lower gas prices demand it.  Do you hate the pettiness of political campaigns?  Write to that person and tell them they are going to loose their job if they don't cut the crap and do the work of the people. We are the captains of our own destinies.  The politicians are the deck hands that we hire to cut bait and swab the decks.  

Stop thinking that you have no choice...it simply is not true.  You are the boss.

Stay Fly and Fly High!

KLH