2000 Soap Box Archives

Government For Sale

Anybody with sense enough to get out of bed in the morning knows that The Clinton Administration has taken national politics to new heights of corruption. The myriad of offenses have been so numerous and well documented that I won’t even bother to go into them. Unfortunately, Bill Clinton and his posse are not the only ones who are guilty of selling out their constituencies for campaign dollars and personal perks. Democrats and Republicans alike shy away from doing anything really meaningful about campaign finance reform. Oh they talk a good game but they would only like to see things change if it was to the detriment of the other party and the advantage of their own. Let’s face it folks, our government is for sale to the highest bidder. To whatever special interest group who can contribute the most dollars or bring the most pressure to bear, while the working people foot the bill for substandard education and massive social programs. Even when there is a projected surplus they scurry around trying to spend it before they get it instead of giving it back to the hardworking people who it belongs to in the first place. Whatever happened to “By the people, for the people and of the people”? Whatever happened to, “We the people”? Do we no longer have a say in the direction our country takes just because we don’t fatten the campaign coffers of politicians? Does our opinion not count just because we can’t send a powerful lobby to Washington or to our state capitols. Why can’t these people come down out of their ivory towers and spend some real time with the people who elected them and find out what’s on their minds, instead of getting their information from some high priced influence peddler? Why can’t they spend some time at the sale barn in Lebanon, Tennessee and learn first hand about how N.A.F.T.A. affects the price of livestock in this country. Or walk the streets of the housing projects where drugs are commonplace. I’ll bet the people there could shed some light on cleaning up their neighborhoods. And how about touring Pittsburgh where all the closed down steel mills stand as a monument to imported steel, subsidized by foreign governments. I’ll bet you the ex-steelworkers could shed some light on our trade policy. And how about talking to some parents who have lost children in school shootings. Can you guess how they would feel about school vouchers and being able to send their children to a school where they would be safe? And how about hanging out with some of the sage old boys who fought in World War II. I can guarantee you they’d have some ideas on foreign policy. You continue to come up with more and more ways to tax us. I think Clinton’s tax on social security is downright cruel. After a person works all his life what right does the government have to take back part of the money they’ve paid in all their lives. Besides it’s not their money, it’s ours. It’s not their country, it’s ours and it’s not their government, it’s ours and it’s high time our politicians started acting like it.

Pray for our troops.

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God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

 

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