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Citizen Legislators or Political Hacks?
Jun 2, 2008 | 9:30 AM
Category: Political
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Liberals and environmentalists have been
brainwashing the public and Congress for 25 years,
intensively and unceasingly, about 'manmade' global
warming, which has prevented us from using America's
rich natural resources of oil, gas, coal, and
uranium, for the production of energy.

(By the way, who made the Earth's 'Ice Age' go away?
It sure wasn't 'Man' !)

The American people are not dumb, but the steady
drumbeat of environmentalist strategy to thwart the
harvest of energy resources has had its effect,
especially on the career politicians in Congress,
who rely on the financial and electoral support of
this special interest to get reelected forever.

There is little question that the country is
suffering a dire shortage of leadership, a shortage
of people who are willing to confront these enviros,
who don't feel a need to be 'liked' by their peers,
and who are willing to take a 'pro-energy' position
which might cause them to be attacked by fanatical
liberals and 'greens'.

Free market principles AND ample energy supplies is
what enables this country to continue to lead the
world in prosperity, standard of living, technology,
medical progress, low unemployment, etc. Without
cheap, plentiful energy, our advances will shrivel
into a mediocre, even backward, way of life.

I have nothing against wind, solar, etc, but they
will always be puny, almost negligible, compared to
what the future will need.

One of the principal areas of activity stifling our
country's overall vigor is the ever expanding
federal government and its leviathan of regulatory
bureaucracy, (i.e. EPA) of which the restriction of
energy development is a prime example of how our
creeping loss of liberty is a drag on American
progress.

The chief villain in this story is the US Congress,
which creates and empowers the stifling
bureaucracies, and which has long since been
corrupted into two chambers of sinecures, where the
principal occupation of its members is to guarantee
perpetual reelection and lifelong tenure, the
well-being of the country be damned.

So how to end this shortage of leadership? I suggest
one way: create a 100% turnover in the US Congress
in the next few elections. Since Congress is a key
factor in proposing laws, policy, and debates in our
country, and provides its members with the
visibility to reach all the people (thru C-span TV),
shouldn't we strive to make it available to citizen
legislators instead of career political hacks?

I'll bet that 535 freshmen in Congress would be a
great seedbed of REAL leadership!

And how do we do that? Simply never reelect anyone
in Congress!

I'm Nelson Lee Walker of tenurecorrupts.com
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