I understand your frustration, but the issues we face as a people are larger than politics or personalities. We have a bloated, wasteful, arrogant, and intrusive federal government that has been in the making for several decades. I am not saying it doesn't matter who we elect, it just feels like it. Bush was supposed to be a fiscal conservative, but he helped the Congress spend like drunken sailors. Obama was supposed to be "liberal/civil liberties" president, but he seems to want no boundaries set on gov. power or control. The federal government seems to be at war against the Constitution. Their arrogance is amazing, and unless they are somehow "reigned" in, Americans will soon find themselves as subjects instead of citizens. Here are my suggestions, some have already been mentioned. 1. term limits 2. a "what's good for us is good for them rule" -- in other words, ALL government employees including the Congress, President, Judges, etc. are under the same programs we are under, no exceptions. Now, they cleverly exempt themselves from all the "crap" laws, programs, and policies that they stick on us. 3. the creation of a bipartisan commission made up of unpaid citizens (no government officials) to study and report on government waste. Make their report available on the internet. I will volunteer to serve. Take all the organizations that now exist to study this issue and have each send one representative and then have them pick 50 more, one from each state. 4. a Balanced Budget Amendment. The fed gov. by law could not spend more than they collect in tax revenue. This would revolutionize America. 5. Have a reaffirmation convention in which the U.S. Constitution is read, honored, and recommitted to. Let all government officials and all citizens reaffirm their allegiance to its strict interpretation and application, without exception. More to come
