Category: Social Issues

IMPORTANT/PLEASE give me your feedback!
For quite some time I have had the feeling that I, as a citizen of this great country, have failed to take action because I didn’t know what action to take to get our legislators to truly be the voting voice of the citizenry. I voted, but that is not enough. How do we take back the power that is actually ours as citizens? USA is supposed to be a democracy not a bureaucracy!
Who are the foxes that are in our henhouse? Our legislators! We voted the foxes into the henhouse. Our failure to monitor their self-serving ways allowed it to be. So, how do we undo this mess?
-We cannot allow legislators to have more than one term. It was never intended that legislators in a democracy would have a lifetime occupation.
-We cannot allow legislators to be paid more than the average salary of a working US citizen.
-We cannot allow legislators to give themselves raises and benefits that exceed what what the average of a working US citizen.
-We cannot allow legislators to exclude themselves from medical coverage that the working citizenry receives in favor of a plan they create for themselves.
-We cannot allow legislators to be paid benefits for life other than those offered to all US working citizens.
-We cannot allow legislators to give themselves pay when their job is not done and they are not even present to do their jobs. (Working citizens lose their jobs if they don’t do their jobs.)
-We cannot allow the power to be vested in legislators without accountability to the American public.
-We cannot allow Washington, D.C. to write their own laws and exclude their territory from legislation commonly enacted in all other states.
-We cannot continue to add new laws without actively removing those that are no longer being enforced. (Perhaps repeal two that are no longer enforced for every one that is passed?)
With elections coming soon, the executive branch will be what it will be, the least offensive to the majority. For the legislative branch, I only will vote for those who agree to pass an amendment within 6 months that specifies those items enumerated above are supported. If someone else can provide a better idea, I would love to hear it! Right now, I can almost hear our forefathers turning in their graves-we must take action!