Our system of government is established to protect us all from those who would violate our rights to a life of political respect and the ability to live a life of fulfillment, free from any form of political bondage. Those who are elected to represent us, have a job to do to create ways to address and meet our needs within a framework of Constitutional rights and institutions. We are to be able to vote for individuals to choose what course we are to take around legislation that is to provide us with solutions to what needs to be addressed for the benefit and good of all of us.
In todays’ political world, instead of having such representatives who are to protect our rights and democratic way of life, we have a handful of elected people who are only concerned about their needs and their maintaining political power. The potential for a government shutdown that is looming before us, is an example of this breech of responsibility for the good of we, the people. ‘Speaker’ McCarthy is more concerned about maintaining his position than he is to insist that the House meet its responsibility to provide necessary funding to keep the government open to address the needs of citizens. Instead of dealing with business, the House has gone on a long weekend break and in so doing has cut the time available to avoid a government closer to but four days.
We have still others who do not care about closing down government because they feel that people going without social security payments, Medicare support or food assistance would shake things up and that would be a ‘good thing.’ The fact that those in the military would go without pay and that the poor among us would be penalized makes no difference to the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene, James Jordan, or Matt Gaetz. The fact is that it only takes a few self-centered people to violate the trust of the American People for their own selfish ends. We deserve better than this and need to address the removal of all such self-centered members of government who play with the welfare of us all.
