We the People

I'm fed up! I'm fed up with what our government has become. What is wrong is that our government is no longer here to serve the people. "Main Street" America is not who is the interest here. Probably for many years now, this country has been run and controlled by special interest groups with deep pockets and loud voices (or maybe sneaky behind the scenes voices!) but never the less, they control this country. Politicians no longer have a back bone or sometimes it seems even enough brain cells to function and string some common sense thoughts together. That is both sides! But especially the liberal side. What has harmed our country tremendously are moderate and soft Republicans that are too worried about their next campaign to stay strong for beliefs they spout but do not back. A man has told me repeatedly over the past couple years that it was always said years ago that if this country ever went to a two party nation it would be the beginning of the end of this country. I believe we are surely headed there for the USA has become a country run by the "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" philosophy for way too long now and people are so hungry for power and money that they compromise their souls to the devil for it! We the people -- even those of us who try to be EDUCATED voters, can't seem to make any headway toward getting this country back to where the Founding Fathers intended it to be. I truly believe deep in my heart that if the Lord tarries, the only way to return to the former glory is for there to be an uprising of the people. I read The Declaration of Independence a little while ago. Quite interesting (I've read it before but wanted to refresh my memory and also to allow each word to sink in).

Here is what this document says....
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. - Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
(the rest is the list of tyrannies and the names and states who signed)

BTW, just a side note/rant...Remember when during the last election the campaigning was all about "Main Street America VS. Wall Street America"? Bad rich people and Wall Street yet when the market is up there is always a picture shown on the news with everyone clapping as the bell rings!!! Just for those who don't get it....RICH people pay more taxes to the government than anyone. Even if they get a cut rate they still are what keeps the government flowing in money! Their 5% brings in more than a middle income or lower income who pays in 8%! (Just throwing out numbers ... like the liars in Washington do...don't know the real percentages) The point is RICH people are the ones who have businesses to create jobs and revenue. Most politicians are rich! Democrats too though they try to pretend that they care about the little working man and woman. They really are only generous with other people's money! Why don't they quit trying to run other people's lives and give all their money that they use to get elected and work deals to the poor if they are so concerned?!
I think everyone should do it God's way and pay 10%! That would fix the squabbling. Tell me, how is it that people who are on welfare get $3000 tax returns back when they never paid in a dime all year?!? Just saying!

Maybe it's time for a throwing off of the government that has overstepped their bounds and become tyrants controlled like puppets by the special interest groups making deals and "paying to play".