History has a funny way of looping back on itself. For example, our Founding Fathers were faced with a terrible problem––the problem of taxation without representation. A hot issue at the time, it made a lot of people very mad. Today we face another terrible problem––representation without taxation.
The problems are mirror images of each other. One is as bad as the other. Representation without taxation is just as wrong as taxation without representation. The pendulum has swung completely the other way.
Now, instead of being oppressed by a foreign monarch, as our Founding Fathers were, we are being oppressed by a bunch of big-money corporate moochers. These greedy leeches don’t want to pay their fair share of the cost of doing business, yet want total control the country’s legislative agenda. They want all of the rights and privileges with none of the responsibilities. What a disgusting lot of slackers they are!
They can shower an endless supply of money on our elected legislators, but are too selfish and greedy to pick up their part of the tab when it comes to keeping the country running. They want everything for nothing, for themselves, and the rest of us can just die quickly.
As Sharon Angle so aptly put it, “I hope that’s not where we’re going, but if this congress keeps going the way it is, . . . then (we must ask ourselves), what can we do to turn this country around?”
Here’s what I think we can do. We can keep the fight going. We can keep the pressure on the Republicans. All we need to do is to keep reminding the country what this bunch of greedy hypocrites really stands for.
We don’t need any second amendment remedies. All we need is the unswerving will to achieve true equality and justice for all Americans.
Our Founding Fathers thought it was something worth fighting for, and I think it’s worth fighting for again. That’s what I think we should be saying.