I’ve not posted in a while. I’ve really been afraid to post. I don’t want to be political though I know a lot of my posts lean toward the conservative side of the aisle. I lean toward the conservative side.
What scares me more than being political in one of my posts, however, is where we are going. Recently a state governor made the following statement:
“You have to have more ability from Congress, I think, to work together and to get over the partisan bickering and focus on fixing things. I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that. The one good thing about Raleigh is that for so many years we worked across party lines. It’s a little bit more contentious now but it’s not impossible to try to do what’s right in this state. You want people who don’t worry about the next election.”
I understand her concern. She’s trying to take politics out of our economic problems. Unfortunately politics ARE the problem. And what she’s advocating is very dangerous. You can’t spend more money than you have, but yet we do. A WHOLE LOT more.
The answer to the Governor’s statement lies in another post I read today; TERM LIMITS. That, and no pension. Serving in Congress was never meant to be a life-time job. You were supposed to go to Washington, serve your country by representing your home state, then return home to your FULL time job. Whatever that may have been it certainly wasn’t a politician.