The Common Good

The common good, isn't that what we all want for America? I know there has to be debate, and that can be constructive. However it is no longer about debate. It's about power, selfishness, and even hatefulness. We have moved so far from working for the common good that we no longer expect anything but divisiveness and therefore we except the rhetoric from both parties as the way it is, and we cannot do anything about it.

We must interject ourselves into the debate as well as the processes. We can no longer trust in the representative government. Congress no longer listens to us. They live in a world of their own, alongside special interest money that is pouring into the system with a devastating effect.

What's in the public interest? Energy policies! Why don't we drill off our own coast? In Alaska? In the Gulf? China is in the process of drilling in the Gulf with Cuba! Who has the best record for clean technology, China/Cuba or the United Sates of America?

How about refineries for gasoline? How about nuclear energy? Can the environmentalists have that much money and power to block it? Something doesn't add up.

"We the People" must take control back from the "me first" crowed. Get involved, demand our country back. It is after all our responsibility to safeguard the governmental structure set up more than two hundred years ago.

We are off course for sure. Many people are pulling us toward socialism, not learning the lessons of Canada, France, Sweden, Great Britain and others. Our system is a good one. Let's preserve it. Send the politicians home, cut their pay and for Pete's sake elect common people to Congress. There are plenty of people with the smarts and patriotism who could and would step up for a one or two term commitment.

There are way too many special interest groups claiming to have our best interests in mind when they lobby the folks who work on the hill. You know that's not true. It's all about massaging the laws to work in their favor. It has nothing to do with our best interest. We tell our representatives what we want and need. We don't need a go between. We need politicians who will listen and act in everyone's best interest.

Anyone in their third term, vote them out!

Stranger

Ninety Five Dollars A Barrel

The speculators are having a field day. The environmentalists are smug. The lobbyists are celebrating. And we, well we are digging deeper and waiting for our representatives to protect the goose that lay the " golden egg". Gold is at $800 an ounce, and the dollar is declining. Congress is so involved in the struggle for power that they started a year early. I'm not sure they are aware of their surroundings.

We have oil and coal. We also have the technology to build and operate nuclear power plants. There is oil shale in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming and we now know how to process it. Opposing that will probably be the next environmentalist movement and perhaps foreign interest groups will be spreading cheer throughout Washington, D.C.

Some way, some how this cycle has got to be broken. We need to vote "better". We need to get involved and demand "better". We are "We the People". It is up to us -- our responsibility to manage congress: to elect selfless people to serve, not so many lawyers, a term or two and make room for new thinkers.

Let us take our country back. Let me know what you think.