We the People

In the United States of America, government is not a foreign entity seeking to take our money and impose its will upon us. From the rhetoric floating about you would think it was, but it’s not. In the United States of America the government is us. When our government spends money, it is really us spending money on us. When government gets it wrong, it is really ourselves we have to blame. Now, you don’t make all of the decisions. None of us do. You probably don’t draw a federal paycheck either. You do, however, vote … or at least it’s highly likely that you could. You could also write a letter to your representative, sign a petition, write in a blog, march on Washington, or attend a school board meeting. You could bring attention to the failures of government and try to fix it. You might let your representative know you’d like them to work on real tariff reform or explain the benefits of our obsession with ethanol. You might even let your representative know that rather than shrinking government, ultimately taking power out of your hands and giving it to a minority of individuals and corporations masquerading as the free market, you’d like them to try and work together with their fellow representatives to fix it. If you don’t, you will only have yourself to blame.