I'm not answering my phone until November 5th. (quite probably a political rant)

[Joe Valencic]

THIS IS A GENERAL RANT, AND NOT DIRECTED AT ANY INDIVIDUAL POSTING TO THIS THREAD. I JUST GOTTA GET THIS OFF MY CHEST.


We have no stones in this country, plain and simple. We elect people to office then allow us to trample all over us by creating laws which put a burden either on us directly, or our employers or suppliers of goods and services, then WE allow them to exempt themselves from those laws. The Do Not Call list is a prime example of this. Every politician now has a playground from which every other organization has been banned (under penalty of law), and from which they can annoy us for months on end. And we are foolish enough to allow this go on, and even more foolish when we send the same foxes back into the henhouse.

Until we demand accountability from our elected officials, and until we start removing these deaf leeches from perpetual office and replacing them with people who will genuinely represent their constituency, we have no right to post complaints like this thread. America, we have allowed ourselves to be duped, and we're too lazy and gutless to pull ourselves away from out TV's and hit the pavement to start a grass-roots program of systematically removing these over-burdening politicians and taking back our rights that these politicians on both sides of the aisle who removed them from us. In every other country in the world, including the most politically oppressed, the people take to the streets to voice their displeasure with political oppression. Hell, I remember years ago the French farmers drove their tractors up the steps of government buildings to draw attention to some form of mistreatment they were receiving from the government. When was the last time we did that here? In America we pop another beer, curse the TV, and change the channel. We deserve the treatment we get and we have no room to complain until we demand change. Remember this in a couple of weeks when you go to the polls. Ask your self what your elected representative has done for YOU lately, then decide who gets your vote.

Joe