Lately the phrase “We the people” pops up in discussions regarding political decisions, and I’m amazed at how often it never is emphasized in the proper perspective.

Even the lifetime tenures of some representatives and senators are continually ignored even though they fly in the face of the original purpose of limited terms . You see, representatives were supposed to represent the people and at the end of their terms they were to return to the communities they came from to share their learned government experiences thus giving that knowledge back to their neighbors and help to return benefits to those same communities.

How did we allow that concept to morph into lifelong careers at the expense of the citizenry? God knows that these days even nepotism gets a blind eye turned toward it.

When your President would throw the Police Department under a bus because his buddy got arrested, I guarantee you that he wasn’t thinking of the American People. You should have immediately realized that your own President had a corrupted opinion of Peace Officers, and that should have sent a stench out of the White House to be smelled by everyone no matter what color.

But, getting back to “we the people”, please refresh my memory as to when the government takeover and gifting of the auto industry to the United Auto Workers received its birth at the hands of the American People? Can you tell me when you first heard the People say, “We want our medical care doled out by the White House”? When the financial institutions got their handout, how many of you can recall the idea of infusing billions into bailouts came about because of the desire of the American People? And do you really expect me to believe that the People are saying, “Let those that enter this country illegally get medical care and social security at my expense!” It’s awfully quiet out there. No answers? No examples?

Well that’s why I’m scared shitless! I know I’m not the only one that realizes when these concepts begin at the top there’s already been an anesthetizing of the American People. The voices you hear today of other scared people at town hall meetings better serve to bring you to your feet. You better get those letters written to your representatives and senators now. It’s only a half dozen or so. It really will only take an hour or so to get a thought put to paper (yes, including two or three tries to get the body of it to read the way you’d like), and to get it to the post office. Why in that amount of time you could get a couple telephone calls off to the offices of those same folks. You’d better get used to their names now, because it will seem the time has flown by when election day rolls around again, and my goal when that happens is to remember each and every one of them. They allowed this to happen! They allowed your power to be usurped by the idealists that know better than you. Please reach back to recall the lessons learned earlier on in school when we had teachers that truly understood the basics of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and knew the value of teaching us how our Government is supposed to work. It’s been taken away, and we both know it. Start cranking the volume my friends, because you’re being suffocated by forces that don’t get their strength from “We thePeople”.