i've been so happy/busy since i got my new puppy that i haven't had much motivation to write. but thanks to snakebite's latest post, i'm back on the ranting bandwagon!
snakebite opens with concerns about his tax dollars being wasted. he proposes the retaliatory idea of voting against incumbents across the board, with no exceptions.
oh, come now.
let's think about this for a minute. these people are being paid with our tax dollars. do we really want 100% rookies in their positions? i personally don't want my tax dollars being used for ojt.
completely cleaning house means bootstrapping a government. surely, anyone can see that this would not be cheap or easy. but now that i think of it...heck, if we start all over, we could just axe democracy altogether. since democrats and republicans can't get along*, we could test the waters of totalitarian-ism and see how that goes? or better yet, anarchy! to heck with any government at all!
okay, recall if you will the saying about throwing the baby out with the bathwater. necessarily, those parties whom you feel are doing a good job would also not be in office. [shush! don't tell me that nobody in office is working toward goals that match your social or economic belief system.] i personally wouldn't trade amy klobuchar in. maybe you (erroneously ;) feel the same way about michael jackson's twin in congress. snakebite, as a cyclist who has eschewed automobile ownership, would you really want to dismiss denny rehberg, who is backs the bicycle commuter bill?
pffffft.
there are a lot of things wrong with our government, but there are plenty of things right with it, too.
*we're a 2-party system, no?
Monday, September 29, 2008
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I base my clearing house of the entire congress on a few things. Too many are career politicians. I don’t believe our founding fathers (and mothers) ever thought in their wildest dreams anyone would be in congress for very long nor want to be.
Our founding parents also made no provisions for political parties. They just sort of happened. That is a bummer. You’d mentioned a two party system. A two party system really sucks. It’s way too much of us versus them with only two. I’d suggest Americans would be much better off with a no party system, which is possible, or a at least a three, but better more than four, party system. (I realize there are other parties, but wouldn’t it be super cool if all were major parties?)
At any rate things are too much us versus them and maneuvering for future items than getting done what’s best for America. By doing a clearing house and changing congress much more often this pretty much takes lobbyists out of the picture.
I’d gladly give up Denny Rehberg if there were a fresh, new congress more often than not as the newbies are far less likely to be in bed with big business such as big oil and the Detroit car makers. Bicycle friendly legislation is likely to occur much more quickly if we have actual representation of the people than special interests.
I stand by my request that everyone vote against incumbents across the board always and forever. Being America, you do what you want to do and I’m going to do what I want to do. That is what great about this country – we’re free to speak our minds and to vote how we like.
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