It's All Too Much!
With Cap and Trade barreling down the tracks to crush us with a tax hike the likes of which we can only imagine, government-controlled health care casting a shadow on our future, and the peccadillos of our elected officials making front page news, our congress has the gall to observe a moment of silence for a dead pop star. I love the comment from one of Glenn Beck's readers:
I really don’t see a problem with the House having a moment of silence for a person that represents many of the same moral ideals as they do. To honor one of your own is only fitting.
Now that says it all!
Meantime in Detroit, things are going from bad to worse. Home to John Conyers and his wife Monica, it appears that MI Senator Debbie Stabenow is also going to get her buttskie dragged into the ongoing corruption. I've been watching lil' Debbie for quite some time, and not just because her hair is really, really ugly. NB That was not an attack on Debbie's person but only a reflection on her ugly hair style. Sort of like the really, really ugly clothes that Michelle Obama wears.
Blogprof is doing a great job of keeping the players straight for us and we thank him. Who needs soap operas on TV when we have Michigan?
Check out what government regulations are doing to the health care industry now and try and imagine more of the same. Does something need to be done with rising health care costs? You bet! But the people of this country are not going to like giving up anything they deem to be "free". What none of them understand is that getting rationed or sub-standard treatment for free is not a great bargain.
What the Average Person Knows
I'm leaving the grocery store the other evening and bump into a friend. I ask him how he's doing and he tells me he's having to work twice as hard for the same amount of money.
So I say to him, "you think it's bad now wait until Cap and Trade or government-controlled single payer health care gets passed."
And he says, (are you ready?) "what's Cap and Trade? I'm so busy working I don't have time to keep up with these things."
Folks, that says it all. We are so busy preaching to the choir that we, just like our elected officials, have lost touch with the average American. I gave him the short form of what's going on and told his computer savvy 14 year old stepson to hop online and email our senator. All he needed to say was NO on cap and trade and NO on government health care.
As I was driving home, it occurred to me this is being repeated in parking lots all over the country. These are well meaning people who work hard, but are utterly disconnected from the real-time shenanigans of our elected officials. I also realized that if this guy was going to try and get up to speed on current events, his first stop would be the corrupted MSM that would feed him lies.
The Plan
After being seriously depressed for the rest of the evening, my plan started to hatch. We have tea parties that are public and advertised, but there again, we are preaching to the choir. Mr. or Mrs. Average American is probably not even sure of what we're protesting.
It behooves us to reach the unaware citizen and somehow get them to understand what is really going on. Today, I will be printing up link sheets to give to people I run into at the grocery store. On it, I will have links to myself, Hot Air, Gateway Pundit, Memeorandum, The Blog Prof ('cause he's cute), RightKlik, American Thinker, and Left Coast Rebel (he's cute, too!) If you're not listed above, it's not because you are not doing a good job. It's only because these folks have the links that will lead to you, or to any other pertinent information they may need.
Listed will be our representatives and senators with their phone numbers (here and in Washington), plus mailing and email addresses. I will list the local radio stations with their call letters that carry Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, and include the times of their broadcasts. That will cover the folks who aren't computer literate.
Most importantly, I will tell them that as citizens of a free country, they need to be informed, and that they have a right and a duty to protect and defend the constitution.
A suggestion for anyone reading this is that you do the same thing. I also suggest that you either link to this plan or reprint it on your blog. I don't even care if you give me credit. This isn't about my hit counter. It's about doing the right thing.
Sometimes we get so caught up in our blogging, checking our site meters, and thinking we are making a difference, in reality we are the equivalent of that famous tree falling in the forest with no one to hear.
Meantime, I have 3 acres of gardens waiting for my attention.
I will be back later as I have received awards, meme's, and other fun stuff to deal with.
So Lola, Mighty Mom, Joe of St. Therese, Subvet, and all the people I hold dear - I will return after some back-breaking work to properly acknowledge all of you.
God bless you all and God bless America!
5 comments:
I'm going on record stating that I did not vote for l'il Debbie. Hopefully, if she's found guilty of any wrongdoing, she can hold on until after the 2010 governor election - maybe we'll have a Republican in office then, and she can get replaced with an (R) rather than a (D).
You hit the nail on the head. I was talking to people last week and they had no idea what cap & trade was. They have no concept of the sheer corruption in Washington. We are lucky Walt voted no. I posted his statement on my blog. I think it is important to keep up on what our reps and senators are doing and and ADVERTISE to NPWANOWP (normal people who are not obsessed with politics:) Thanks for the great idea adrienne.
...a MOMENT of silence? How about a YEAR of silence? Then Congress would really be doing us a favor.
...thanks for the continuing support!
I can think of someone who needs to be "Capped!"
Good work here -- thanks for putting all this information together. Be of good cheer, though. Remember the words of St. Paul, "Rejoice in the Lord always!"
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