Most of the time Americans make me proud. But it is times like this were I just want to find the whole lot of you and give you a good throttling. Ok, maybe not the whole lot of you but definitely the majority.
I am going to try and make it through this post without blowing a gasket but I am definitely certain that I am going to offend a great many of you who are not thinking at all much less doing so clearly. When that happens, go ahead and feel free to write me and tell me how stupid I am for point out how stupid you are and tell me how you will never read my articles again. Go ahead, do it! Because I know that you will be back because the truth is compelling even if you try desperately to refuse delivery.
Ok, so why am I fuming at my fellow Americans? What has me ready to commit unspeakable acts to them? Well, the answer is a new poll from Rasmussen which sports the title, “Voters Say Congress Should Ask Permission Before Changing Social Security, Raising Taxes“. See, those of you actually using the brains God gave a turnip already know what is wrong with this idea. The rest of you, 71% of you I might add, need some intelligence beat into you. I am sorry, that is the politest way I can put it.
If Congress wants to change Social Security, 71% believe that any proposed changed should be submitted to a vote of the American people. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 21% disagree and 9% are not sure.
Sixty-one percent (61%) say Congress should be required to get voter approval before raising taxes. On this topic, 33% disagree and 6% are not sure.
Hello? Wakey-wakey! America is not a democracy! That is what you 71% are asking for though!
Ok … I can keep calm …
SIGH
Listen, people, my fellow Americans … America is a constitutional republic. What does that mean? It means that every couple of years, two in the House of Representative, six in the Senate and four in the White House, we get to go to the polls and vote for the people we want to represent us and vote on our behalf in Washington.
That means that in those intervals Congress and the White House already ask for voter approval for anything they want to do! And too many of you … dare I say what I am thinking at the risk of insulting people? Yeah … I dare! Too many of you yummy brains out there either do not go to the polls or vote for even bigger yummy brains, whom you have not researched what their stances are on issues, to public office to represent us. Lots more you goof balls out there do not even know what the Constitutional limits of our government are or why they are what they are and head off blissfully ignorant to pull the lever for the villain who has promised you the most money in your pocket and paid for out of the Treasury.
Here is what I see this poll as saying. 71% of you out there, even if you by happenstance happen to vote for a good, honest, and Constitutionally literate representative, are trying to shirk your duty to know who the Hell you are voting for and then act all surprise when they do things you did not think they would do.
That is how we got in the mess of having albatrosses like Social Security hanging around our neck in the first damn place! This is what I have talked about for years.
This poll also points out something else that I think I have regularly expressed a fear of. This fear is that while Americans are starting to wake up and realize that our big government ways of taxing, spending and regulating above and beyond any powers found in the Constitution is bad, they are scared that the correct actions when taken to solve these problems will not meet with their own personal desires and they want final say over vetoing any plans that might kick them in the teeth.
Americans, inanely, want veto power over their legislators because they either don’t want to take action they know must be taken or because they cannot be bothered to learn important things about who they are voting for. You know, like those hordes of you who rushed out to vote for Barack Obama because you wanted to say you voted for the first black president even as the rest of us were telling you about how radically to the left he is. You poo-pooed those claims. You called us racists. You pulled the lever for him anyway. You wanted to be part of history.
Well, you got it! There was a perfectly good black man by the name of Alan Keyes on the ballot in most states that actually has a brain but instead you picked the phony constitutional lawyer who does not know that document from the toilet paper in his bathroom. Now you realize how, if I dare quote the President, “stupidly” you acted and wished you could have your vote back or at least a veto of your own over bad policy he and his comrades in Congress are dreaming up.
Sorry. Not going to happen. I will fight you tooth and nail over this concept because I know how bad direct democracy can be. You want to loose your rights? You will never loose them as fast as you will when democracy comes to America. I guarantee you that!
November is coming though. And that is your chance to change course. That vote you better be planning on casting will be the referendum on the policies of our Congress this time around. But you will have to research the people you are going to vote for. And if, come Election Day, you decide that the prospect of having the government teat removed from your lips is just too painful and return to power the same cads we have now? Well, then you will be at even more fault than you are now.
Then you will whine and you will moan and you will once again call for your own little personal veto.
Here is a better idea though. Do your job as a voter. Show some responsibility. If you do not then do not start whining about how you want veto power over the actions of those that you sent on your own behalf and by your own free will.
And those of you that do not show up to vote on election day? Well, I would seriously suggest you turn in your citizenship and get out. There is no excuse for ambivalence anymore. And you definitely do not a right to complain.
Let the hate mail begin!
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