Where has Common Sense Gone?

The night before President Kennedy's Inauguration was a bitter cold and snowy night. But as the sun rose over Washington DC that crisp morning, January 20th, 1961, President Kennedy spoke to a divided nation. The skies had cleared, and the day was a glorious winter morning. The election had been one of the closest in US history, and the new President understood the need to unify America. After taking the oath of office, administered by then Chief Justice Earl Warren, the young new President addressed the nation. JFK spoke these now famous and profound words: “And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country.”

As a President JFK understood the need for Americans to seek the best solution for those challenges that were in front of us, solutions not based on party rhetoric, but on common sense and the truth and what was best for America and Americans alike. President Kennedy also was quoted as saying: “Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.”

Our founding fathers, those greatest of all our lawmakers, understood that political service was not intended as a lifetime endeavor. One should serve for a reasonable length of time, then move on and let others serve the nation. Today living in the fantasy bubble of Washington DC limits the ability of any lawmaker to see the reality of life in the "outside" world. Our lawmakers today do not live in our reality. Many of them are millionaires, no more in touch with our lives than we are with theirs. This division between the governing and the governed has become pathological to our way of life. Working an average of only 3 days per week with lavish privileges the common citizen cannot imagine, they have no clue of our real lives; they have lost touch with any objective reality. Many politicians at all levels have never held a real job in the private sector.

The solution is to rotate our elected officials into and out of office; something they are not willing to do anymore. The argument of experience lost is hollow and self-serving. Only through the rotation of our elected, can the real voice of the people be heard and obeyed. The only way we can accomplish this is to put them on notice and then to vote them out of office. Simply fire them all for incompetence. It is really that simple, just vote them all out of office.

If we as a nation look in the mirror, and take an honest assessment, truth be told, our government does not seek the correct solutions anymore. Common sense is all but lost in Washington DC. Decisions today are not based on logic or what is best for this great land, but on party loyalty. Members of Congress are not civil towards one another, much less govern this nation with any real direction. One has to stop and ask themselves, is this the America that our founding fathers created? Is this the nation that President Kennedy spoke so passionately about? Sadly our government has become a cesspool of politics, contorted laws guided by money hungry politicians taking millions of dollars from outside interest groups, politicians not worthy of our trust, nor of the honored position of being members of Congress. Education fails our children, unrest worldwide endangers our freedoms, and our government fails the people of this great land in every aspect. It is time to fire those that created this mess; they are all guilty. Can you honestly think of any one thing that our government does right today?

It is time to vote them all out of office, join the voter revolution of 2010, it is just that simple, VOTE NO!