Congressional Exodus

The media has been making a big thing about all the people saying they weren't going to run for office again. As far as I'm concerned this is a good thing. I have been of the mind for quite some time that we need to get rid of every one of them.

For far too long we have let these men and women get away with doing as they please without any oversight. We have not called them to account and we should have. The people are finally beginning to rise up and demand this of our leaders and this is certainly a good thing.

I do not believe that most of them can adequately give an account of themselves. I am not much interested in the reason these men and women are leaving office. I don't care. I'm just happy to see them gone and hope that we will find men and women of character.

We need men and women who have ethics. We need men and women who believe in the constitution and are determined to defend it not try to change it. We need men and women who are determined to shrink government.

Some think that income tax is something that has always existed in this nation but this is not so. Income tax is something that started in the early 1900's. Shortly after they started it we were seeing income tax of almost 75%. We were thrilled to see it drop to 25% and credit that with the roaring 20's when the nation took off financially. but no one seems to consider how much more it would have grown had we done away with the income tax all together.

We do not need to be taxed as we are. The government does not need as much to operate as they would have you believe. They do not need... We do not need all these entitlement programs. Consider for a moment all they are doing is giving you back the money they took from you in the first place. in many cases they are giving you back far less than they took.

We ought to be helping this exodus happen. If the incumbents we have won't leave office voluntarily we ought to be kicking them out with our votes. At the same time we need to look for people of value to replace them with.

We need to keep our government more local as it was meant to be. If we elect local leaders that we know and who are concerned about our local needs and work locally we may avoid some of the earmarks.

If we can get them to stop taxing so much they will not have the temptation to keep trying to bring the money BACK to our local areas. As I mentioned above they usually don't bring back nearly as much as they take.

We have come to think that we can't exist without the government. We've come to think that they HAVE to take all that money to provide for us. It is not their job to provide for us. It is not their job to provide education. It is not their job to provide retirement. It is not their job to provide health care.

None of these things are powers given to the federal government. Let's get back to the constitution. Let's find people who feel and obligation to defend the constitution and not change it as I state above. Those that feel a need to change the constitution are people we ought to question very carefully.