Monday, I faxed my Senator who voted to continue pork barrel spending a letter of reprimand. John Stossel writes today that "What Congress Did Is Disgusting" and cites some of the same abuses I did.
I think we as Americans need to take this issue to heart and start holding our leader's feet to the fire over it. The problem is that everybody thinks that what the other guy is doing is wrong, but think that their representative or senator is just fine. When the money is coming home, it is hard to vote against the guy who brought it in. This attitude shows that most people don't have principles because principles make something always right or wrong. Pork Barrel spending is always wrong, whether it is in Alaska or Alabama. More people need to be enraged over this.
Of course, the self-defeating attitude is "I am mad about it. But I feel powerless. How can I change the entire atmosphere of the U.S. Congress." You know, change is never easy. It does take effort. It takes getting to that point of I am sick and tired of living this way and I just won't stand for it anymore. Yesterday, Rosa Parks passed away, but her life embodies the power of the powerless. Ms. Parks was a seamstress, not an activist. She had no power. She had no pulpit. She just had two weary feet from a hard day of work and conviction that the way she was being treated was wrong. That conviction changed the course of a nation.
We need to emulate Rosa Parks. I wish we could have a tax boycott like she had a bus boycott. That is how our forefathers actually got the attention of the British Empire. They simply refused to acknowledge the taxes placed upon them. The "Tea Party" was a tax revolt. Unfortunately, our government has set up the perfect system to keep this from happening. They have our paychecks garnished by our employer and sent to them. We never get to even get the money to keep it. Employers who have refused to act as an agent of the state in this manner have been forced out-of-business. Big companies who form a symbiotic relationship with the current leaders will never revolt, because they are in cahoots with the government. Small companies and individuals are too easily crushed by big government.
I'm not sure I have an answer. However, I am sure that this a fight worth fighting. We have an inalienable right to life and an inalienable right to be masters of our own destined. We exchange a portion of our life for cash, therefore our salary, our money is a symbol of our life. When government forces us to give up a portion of our money (which is just a symbol) to them, they are actually forcing us to give up a portion of our life and refusing to acknowledge that we have the right to determine the fate of our income. That is one of the great things about the "Fair Tax" is that it places the power of my life back in my hands.
We need to change. Our government is too big and too powerful. We need to return power to the people, power to the individual. Now can someone please tell me how (preferably without a bloody revolution).
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