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Get OUR Government Back

Posted by Redhead on Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:43:00 PM

To return to the ideas that the founders advocated we must begin to return the power to the people of this country. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are full of Limitations on Government, not to the people. We must return to this idea. This will take three steps.

1) Term Limits.

We must return to the Citizen Senator. Or actually the Citizen Representative. Term limits for Senators should not be necessary if we enact Number 2, below.


2) Repeal the 17th Amendment.

The States no longer have any representation in the U.S. Government. They are being trampled over by those that could care less about their home state, or state’s rights, and only care about getting elected to power.


3) Fair Tax.

This will not only create a tax system for the federal government that is more fair, encourages savings, and benefits the economy, it will return much more power to the people. Much, if not most (I’m sure someone could come up with a number), of the lobbying that goes on in Congress is for changes in the tax code. Under the fair tax, there would be no lobbying for tax breaks for one lobby group, or lobbying for tax increases for another group.

To be fair, these are not entirely my ideas. I think that Neal Boortz has advocated all three, if not just the last two, for years. I also don’t think that this will ever happen. It would mean OUR representatives turning over their power back to us, the people.

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