Blogbat

I saw your comment on my blog and came over to look around, well, I see you have the link to the Minutemen up as well, so, I am going to link you in the blog burst thing I am trying to organize...

Glad to see you and glad to know you're a supporter too...

What the hell is going on in Washington?? If the Republicans get tossed out, they'll have no one to blame but themselves. Then Rush Bimbo (as Savage calls him) can complain when the Dems ram through the Fairness Doctrine, & knock half of talk radio off the air

What irks me is the way in which the sellout members of the GOP are patronizing the American people telling them to act nice or else the evil Dems will take over.

It sort of reminds me of the way a husband who beats his wife will blame her for causing him to hit her and then blame her again for splitting up such a great marriage when the cops come to carry him away.

If the Dems are so evil and the sellouts really care that much, then they'd better begin listening to the people.

Voting is the only means of creating accountability; and if the voter does nothing, he’ll face an even more certain and undesirable fate.

You know? Maybe because I'm on the inside looking out and things are not quite as they appear to me from where I happen to be sitting, but it seems like I'm seeing more and more sites like this, that is, whether they're blog sites, news sites or even whistle blowers and "conspiracy theorists," It also seems a to be a bigger percentage every day that seem to be posting comments that agree with us that think the government is getting way out of hand. I guess that's why I figured I'd be the annoying guy on the soapbox for a minute or two...

I agree totally with the last entry, more specifically the part that beautifulatrocities mentioned of the importance of voting and how important it is. I would disagree with one point of it if some would take it more literaly. I don't think voting is the ONLY way to create accountability. There are a few others, the most effective of those is something I really don't want to see. But there is another, in my opinion that would be about the second most effective method, which is another reason I thought I'd write. It's kind of appropriate that this blog pertains largely to taxes.

There's always a good way to put an end to kids' misbehavior... cut off their allowance. Like I said, voting is important. I'll also add that it's completely USELESS to vote if you're not willing to get the facts and be truly discerning when you decide to vote for someone. More or less, we've had a lot bigger increase in the importance of getting to know your candidates and get out and vote it seems in the last several years. But for all the lip service, it seems the real important point of that campaign isn't being focused upon... because we're still electing the same type of politicians.

And look at the news lately. Do you think this isn't about to come to a serious head. You know, we have troops enought and technology that we could almost (maybe we could) have troops standing arm-to-arm across both northern and southern borders of the U.S., yet they're all halfway across the world, where it could be argued that from a constitutional standpoint alone, that they probably shouldn't have to be. Ad to that, the Katrina snafu, the fearmongering over a so-called bird flu, which is so serious that our "leaders" feel it necessary to declare martial law to handle... before it's even been confirmed anywhere in this hemisphere?

What I'm suggesting is a tax revolt. It's really pretty dumb and irresponsible of us as Americans that we put up with this and allow our government to do what they're doing. But it's even dumber to keep funding it. And we keep funding it, although the simple truth is... we don't really have to.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

I think we're getting to the point in history that Jefferson and Washington would have surely given the nod to this course of action if they wouldn't give it the green light right now. It looks like our "democratic" government has just about stepped across every line that King George (the old one) did in the Declaration of Independence. I good first step would be to eliminate the funding.

It is a frustrating thing to be sure.

While I think there is a time and a place for everything (as our Founding Fathers demonstrated), I think revolts of any kind are for use only after civil government has completely broken down. We are yet a long way from that. Besides, as citizens (rather than illegal aliens) we don't get an exemption card allowing us to disregard the law at will without consequence.

At the same time, were we to pass significant tax reform in the fashion of a national sales tax in lieu of our current and intrusive income tax, such a "revolt" would be as simple as staying home from the shopping mall -- and quite lawful (which is why politicos fear it and why we need to push for it).

But all actions should be measured. We can't en masse refuse to involve ourselves with the inner workings of our political parties and then act surprised when those political parties don't reflect us. And we certainly can't become so angry that we call for a revolt when we haven't done all that we yet could do to stabilize the situation. The Founding Fathers devoted much of their lives showing due diligence exploring every political avenue first before they with deep regret came to the point of declaring independence from the crown. And I think we should do no less, if not even more.