"I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and ...More we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad.
...I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore." - H. Beale (P. Chayefsky), 1976
You shouldn't have to put up with this. However we do not have a national legislative body that will do what MUST be done. Even worse, they fail to OVER AND OVER. New handout? New earmark? New tax and inflation assault on the soft targets of society? Watch our Congress. Because they "get theirs," and the soft targets are robbed. Yes - those who pay their bills instead of running away, who save, who don't extort credit cards, mortgagers and governments because of inability to pay. And those who are children or even unborn will be stuck with this horror, this nightmare Congress has permitted.
All I know is that there is a simple step that will fix a countless number of corrupt and irresponsible economic actions, which are killing us now and will kill us FAR WORSE down the line. And it's simple, laughably simple.
VOTE OUT EACH AND EVERY INCUMBENT FROM CONGRESS. You thus impose by order of the people a mandatory one-term limit. For all of them. No exceptions. Everyone of you needs to be together on this. If e.g. you think Republicans are okay, well, sorry, that's tough - EVERY INCUMBENT, OUT OF CONGRESS, as soon as the next vote occurs. EVERY incumbent - OUT. Not just Pelosi and Frank. EVERY incumbent - OUT - all the way down to even Dr. Ron Paul.
You cannot imagine what a paradigm shift that will cause in our representation and our future. But try *to* imagine it. And join the cause. It's simple. Laughably simple. You can save the world.
Every incumbent out of Congress. EVERY. No exception. Yes. It's that simple.
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"I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and ...More