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2006 Soap Box Archives The Only Way 05/26/06 Our system of government was not designed to accomodate career politicians. It was meant for a person to devote a few years to public service and go back home and become part of the rank and file, and let someone fresh off the streets who has first hand information about how the issues are affecting the ordinary citizen go to the capitol and serve the people who he or she is not some twenty years removed from. It has never been more obvious that our congressmen and senators are so out of touch with what is going on in real life that they just aren’t able to relate to it. It’s like trying to represent a group of people who you have nothing in common with. They have different insurance plans, different retirement plans and an absent landlord attitude about what is going on in their district. So they sit within their secure little cocoons and pass watered down, meaningful and sometimes stupid pieces of legislation, having no idea how it is going to affect the man in the street because they haven’t been one of them in so long they’ve forgotten how the other half lives. Oh they’re big on fact-finding missions, but guess who they spend their time with when they go on them? They cozy up with the local politicians and big shots and have no more idea how that extra tax on gasoline affects ol John Q. than a mule has about the internal workings of a jet engine. It seems that no matter how many stars they have in their eyes when they go to Washington they soon forget the campaign promises in an attempt to become part of the old boy’s network. After all, isn’t that where the power is? Hell yes that’s where the power is, in the hands of a few jaded old caricatures who have spent the last thirty years of their lives wasting the public’s money and struggling, at all costs to stay in Washington. And no this is not just a federal disease. It also affects state and local politicians. They make sure that they send enough pork back to their districts to insure that they stay in office until they can’t walk up the capitol steps. I tell you folks, it’s a sad state of affairs. What do we do about it? It’s simple, so simple. We need term limits. Make these relics go home and get an honest job. Oh, I know what some of you are going to say. "If you don’t like a politician, just vote them out of office.” Well the truth of the matter is that I can’t vote in West Virginia or Alaska or any other state except the one I live in and the people in their state are never going to get rid of them as long as the pork train continues to come into the station fully loaded. In my opinion, eight years is long enough for any person to stay in elective office. Two four year terms for the president, two four year terms for the senate and four two year terms for the congress. People we need some fresh blood in Washington, some people who have not had a bevy of lobbyists to insulate them from what is actually going on in the United States of America and the only way to do it is through term limits. I think we should insist on it. Pray for our troops. What do you think? God Bless America Charlie
Daniels
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