Once upon a time around 236 years ago, our forefathers were saddled with the job of devising a form of government that would provide for balance of power in the legislative, judicial and executive needs of the country while retaining the real and supreme authority for the people and for the states. From their endeavors, the strongest and most reliable and long-lasting governmental constitution ever devised by man in any country at any time emerged and became the law of our country 234 years ago.
Our Constitution has served us well in this country, far outlasting those of other countries in times of national and world peril, through good times and bad. Here we are in 2010 with an economy that is in very fragile shape, with national security that is strained to keep us safe, with declining morals and ethical values, with high unemployment, with the old pangs of racism freely flowing and with a government that has gone far astray from the core principles and guidelines set forth in our great document.
We are all very worried in this country about what tomorrow will bring. If I have heard it once, I’ve heard it thousands of times in the past months: “I don’t know what or who to believe or what to do.”
The answer, my friends, lies within the great Constitution that our forefathers belabored over for weeks and months trying, as best they might, to devise a document that would stand the tests of time; their strongest challenge was to retain a balance of power between the branches of government while retaining the real power and authority for the people themselves. What we have is a situation where the Executive Branch of our government is exerting far too much control over the Legislative Branch and we have a Legislative Branch that has turned its backs on the will of the people.
That’s the whole problem in a nutshell. Now what?
Since the real authority and power of our government lies with the people, it is time for us to exercise our responsibilities and to right the wrongs that are being perpetrated upon us. We must at once command our Legislative Branch, the Congress, to listen to and obey the will of the people. Those who have failed to do so must be sanctioned and removed. It’s just that simple.
We have set ourselves upon the course of restoring the power and authority of our government to the people in accordance with the provisions of our Constitution. The members of Congress who face reelection in November are scurrying around like nervous Nellies, spinning their misdeeds and trying to convince us that they have acted only upon our concerns and directions. Yet, we all know that they have not. If you sit down at the kitchen table and make two lists, one of all the things they have done which are good and we wanted them to do, and another list of the things we were against and did not want them to do, it will quickly remind you of the despicable disregard they have had for what we think and want. There should be no doubt that they must all be removed, regardless of how much they whine and tremble in fear.
We must prepare ourselves and steel our nerves against the onslaughts of protests that will raise their voices louder and louder in the remaining days before the November elections. We must be firm in our convictions that the power and authority of our government must be restored to the people. And, in the dust that will arise on November 2nd, we must rise further to the occasion and begin to prepare ourselves to finish the job in 2012 by removing those who were not up for reelection in 2010 and by resolving the issue that remains in the other branch of our government, the Executive branch.
This is not the time to draw a deep breath. This is not the time to allow the incessant voices of those who have violated our trust to wear down our resolve. This is the time to stand firmly together, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, and to finish the job we know fully well we simply must do.
That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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