"In the Course of Human Events, We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident"

-It is time to throw off the shackles of this sham of a current government. These men and women and Washington do not represent "We the People" but themselves and their own ways and means. They sit in complicit gridlock, shaking sticks of ideology at each other as a means for justifying their complete intransigence. They define greed and sloth, avarice and pettiness. To use the old adage, they are "not worth the salt they are made of" and certainly not the value of our hard earned vote.

-When will we, as a nation, realize that our differences are less than our commonalities? No one is arguing for socialism, but clearly blurred have been the lines of fairness where an hour worked, earns an hour's wage. Too many assume, as has been nurtured by the "lifers" in D.C. and other capitols, that wage and benefit is a right, nay a guarantee, stapled, not even to citizenship, but mere presence within our borders. "Taxation without representation", should never have become representation without contribution through taxation. 

-When do we band together to throw out the savagely self-aggrandizers who claim to represent us while lining their own pockets with crooked contracts and backroom dealings? Why do we spend so much time shouting at each other in support of individuals who care nothing for us, save our ability to keep them ensconced in the hollow halls of our democracy? Have we not learned from the past?  

-"The Declaration of Independence" reminds us that our revolution was not a one time event. It states: "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends (Life Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness), it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government". Furthermore, our founding document states: "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government".

-Let us not pick at the scab of Republican or Democrat. Let us just recognize the whole wound that festers under their incompetent rule. Let us amputate the gangrene. Let us send a message that they are subservient to "We the People" and not the other way around. If they choose to serve, they do so at our pleasure and not for theirs. And, let us not, when they stray, allow them a long rope; but rather demand they be hanged as we would hang those within our communities who violate our laws and sacred trusts.

-Mediocrity is unacceptable. It is time to stop allowing it to pervade all aspects of our lives as an acknowledgment of futility in changing the course.  

-It is time to demand change. It is time for "We the People" to take back our rights and thus our Government to ensure it serves us - "The People".