If elected officials ever wondered why many taxpaying members of Main Street USA (i.e., voters) have become (or have been) disenchanted with politics they need only view their commercials that are on the air.
The American public get bombarded with 30 and 60 second high-impact tales smearing opponents with non-stop ads blasting the opposition and few that tell the real story behind a candidate.
Who is this person? In what do they believe? What are their goals? Why should they be elected (instead of why not to vote for the other party)? Will they sign in blood not to add earmarks to legislation just to get the actual bill passed? What are their real, workable ideas to stop wasteful government spending?
Truth be told, politics has become nothing more than smoke and mirrors.
Once elected, few people seated on Capitol Hill really give a damn about what becomes of Main Street USA.
Yes, most politicans say the right words, create the proper sound bite, but each and every piece of legislation has earmarks and pork attached to buy votes.
Thus, the cycle is:
1. Politicians (and their backers) buy our votes to become our representative.
2. Politicans buy votes of other politicans with earmarks to pass legislation.
The substantial problem with point two above is that the money used to buy votes within the walls of Congress are taxpayer dollars...dollars that do not exist...dollars that simply create more and more debt.
All in order to buy a vote and where the purchased voter (i.e., senator or house member taking this bribe) may visit their people and show how they enriched the community with a new $100 million dollar hospital, or any of countless examples that earmarks provide.
Unfortunately, our elected reps at the national level have forgotten that the states created the federal government and gave that body a specific mission.
Those mission orders have been trampled and swept under the proverbial carpet.
The bigger question remains: can this mess be fixed?
It is probably not possible for anyone to answer that with certainty.
However, one thing is abundantly clear: the federal government must not be allowed unlimited and uncontrolled spending.
And, one way to curb that is completely eliminating earmarks and excessive pork on any piece of legislation. A bill should be enacted solely upon its merits, nothing more, nothing less.
Anything else masks whether or not something is actually good for the populace, good for the future generations who must attempt resolution of massive debt and obligation created in the here and now.
Over For Now.
Main Street One
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