No, 545 is not the number of people who participated in my survey last week. It’s not the number of calories I consumed by devouring that chocolate chip cookie a few minutes ago. Nope, it’s not even the number of times I’ve told my sons to put the toilet seat down this week (although it’s pretty close). It’s the number of people columnist Charley Reese declares are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
Specifically, they are one hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices.
He claims that the mess we’re in is precisely their fault since they are the ones who ultimately have the power to enact legislation in this country. Is our government really “of the people, by the people and for the people” or do a few hands control all of the strings regardless of what we, the people, really want? My questions to you this week are not in the form of an online poll, but were certainly spawned by my last one.
steven
February 29, 2008 at 02:46 PM
The down side is when the canidate you support is being blown off by the big media, so no one even knws they exist... :(
Dave
from Oceanside
March 04, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Most people don't wanna know anything.. they want it all to just happen and leave them alone... it's like an old DEVO song.. Freedom of choice... Freedom FROM choice is what people want.
They want to be able to complain about the crap.. they want things to go well.. but don't want to put in the effort to be good citizens... lazy humans practicing a game that requires they care and keep involved...
It truely is a grand experiment.
