Power To The People

This morning I discovered something interesting. I stumbled upon an editorial attacking the concept of recall here in the state of Michigan. Before I dove into the column of endless liberal banter disguised as neutral fact, I noticed that first off the editorial was uncredited. This got me to reading further.

As I read through, making sure to try and keep blood from filling up in my cranial cavity and uncontrollably squirt out like a garden hose, I was reaffirmed of two things. Liberals are absolutely paranoid at the concept of giving power to the people, and secondly they are desperately trying to do whatever they can to snuff that power out.

Now to give a little background to some of you that happily live outside the paranoia and grey clouds of the mitten state, last week the state Capitol here held a little slumber party and acted like they were trying to save Michigan from a major catastrophic crisis; that they (state government) would have been temporarily shut down. Yeah I know. What would we have done without them?

Needless to say at the last minute, creating as much Hollywood-esque drama as possible, they decided that the best way to solve the problem was to raise our state income taxes; to save us from the horrible fate of not having them screwing things up further on a daily basis, and from a growing deficit. Because we all know the best way to bring prosperity is to tax a tax base that is shrinking at a faster rate that the deficit is growing. Doesn't that sound like an excellent plan?

Needless to say, what they really managed to accomplish was put a little smiley face band-aid on a missing limb.

Now just as of this week we can hear the hum in the distance of an increase in sales tax as well. Because we all know the best way to attract people to come to Michigan is to tax the hell out of them. I mean businesses from around the country are lining up at our door, because they prospect the financial Eden that this state provides.

After all, we're phasing out the business tax...

We're just raising everything else and replacing that tax with about 15 others.

The one of many problems with this leftist wet dream, is that the majority of people aren't buying it. The threat of recall has been looming for quite sometime but now due to recent events it's become quite more appealing of an option to many. Add to that the fact that this state is very prone to recalling it's leaders as local levels so pulling a state level recall couldn't be too much of a feat.

So what does the media do when they see that there precious elite is being threatened. They print sensational editorials and hunt for loons that agree with them, to promote a "need for change". Right now as I sit in front of my laptop I have about five articles alone howling for either the elimination or restriction on the recall of an elected official. Two of them have no author, and the other three are really "neutral". When I say neutral I mean what their car is set in at the local NOW, CODE PINK, NARAL, etc., convention.

I could criticize them all but I'll go for the K.O. because I'm just that kind of guy.

One of the biggest arguments that the self-anointed elite has made against the recall is that it supposedly it can "undermine and hinder the purpose of democracy" and "defeats the purpose of a representative government."

Needless to say, I disagree, as do most that actually understand how this government is supposed to work.

In fact the claims made distract the reader from what is actually occurring.

When they say that a recall can undermine and hinder the purpose of democracy they actually mean...

Politicians can't get away with appealing to partisan special interests like MoveOn.org and corrupting government blatantly out in the open because they would be scared of you retaliating.

When they say that it defeats the purpose of a representative government they actually mean...

It forces politicians to actually represent you.

We all need to remember that the government in all theory and intention is supposed to be US. So whenever you hear some jerk tell you that something has been done in "your best interests" or that it "may be unpopular" but "it had to be done" look them in the face and ask them right out who they hell they think they are to know what your best interests are? Who in the hell do they think they are to decide against your wishes what can and can't be done? Who in the hell do they think they are to tell you what you have to pay more of when the solution is just the opposite? Who in the hell do they think they are when you pay their salary to say that you make far too much?

This country is not about them. They were not elected to have it made about them, and if they cannot represent the people, which is THEIR JOB, they have no right to expect to keep that job any further or receive a lifelong check provided courtesy of our tax dollars. In fact NONE OF THEM do. Last time I checked public servant wasn't a synonym for public expenditure or financial entitlement.

As the great Abraham Lincoln said during his Gettysburg Address, "this nation, under God, shall have a birth of new freedom--and that government OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, shall not perish from the earth."

So are you going to be the one to let it perish?