“We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
I open with the preamble of the United States Constitution to remind all what our government is supposed to do. With this in mind, we posit the following:
Why is it when our country is in a conflict with no apparent end in sight is our Congress holding hearings on Major League Baseball? Last time I checked determining if a baseball player did or did not use steroids does none of the above-mentioned duties of our government.
Why is it when our country is heading towards an economic crisis do we have members of Congress requesting a hearing on the Super Bowl?
And most importantly, why is it that we, the people, allow our elected officials to run rampant and not address those issues which are under their proper purview? Our Founding Fathers set up a system in which our Government derives it power not from business, political machines, or special interests but from the consent of the governed.
If you feel like I do, that Congress has gone off the reservation that they are no longer in touch with the “will of the people” I urge you to write your representatives and let them know about the issues that matter most to you. You can find your representative and their mailing address here: http://whoismyrepresentative.com/
I leave you with the following excerpts from the Declaration of Independence:
“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.”
“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.”
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