We The People

Original Oil Painting by Will Cooper

In the past two weeks at least 15 to 18 of you have sent me an email titled We The People.  Below are excerpts of that email.

For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress.  Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they didn’t pay into Social Security, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws.  The latest is to exempt themselves from the Health Care Bill in all of its forms.  Somehow, that doesn’t seem logical.  We do not have an elite that is above the law.  I truly don’t care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever.  The self-serving must stop.  This is a good way to do that.  It is an idea whose time has come.

Each of you asked me to forward this message to 20 people and if everyone does it will reach the 300 million in a few weeks.  It’s a great idea, but there is one problem, 217 of the Members of the House, 61 Senators and the President would have to think it’s the right thing to do.  I think we might get 10% who would do the honorable thing, but you are not going to get a majority to cut themselves off the government tit. You are asking them to have the honor of our founding fathers, but unfortunately few of those kind of men seem to exist in our government. Most of those we now have in office are elitists and see themselves above the law. That’s a fact that we can’t change.

As a friend from west Texas said to me, “I’ve never known a pig to intentionally topple it’s slop trough.”   He is right.  Why would Congress and the President want to lower their perks to our level?  What’s in it for them?

Has this Obama Health Care mess not taught you anything? We wrote millions of letters, made phone calls, sent faxes, sent emails and made personal visits to our Congress-people trying to Kill the Bill. No one listened to us on the health bill and it didn’t take money out of their pockets. We the People couldn’t win that battle, what makes you think Congress will suddenly have a spark of decency?   No matter how much we lobby they will keep what they have. A few like Senator Tom Colburn of Oklahoma would change, but he and a few like him couldn’t force a turn around.

I suspect this ploy was first started by a Democrat to get us so riled up in changing Congress we forget the battle we can win. Instead of pouring energy into making Congress do the right thing, we MUST take the fight to November. Our real battle is electing fiscal conservatives in the fall. This where real change can come to Washington, but it won’t if you spend your time chasing rabbits. Stay focused on electing good people this November and in 2012 we need to get us a real president, not some man-child playing the part.

Email: willcooper@senkarik.com