BY: NCViking

President Obama’s honeymoon is over so he needs to get his head out of the clouds and see what is happening on the street. Its 1992 all over again – this time on steroids. Back then, the public was fed up with the irresponsible deficit spending of both parties and was very concerned for the future. It was the main topic of concern that allowed an off-kilter, fiscal-minded third-party candidate (Ross Perot) to shake up American politics to its core, eventually leading to reform and budget surpluses. Even my Republican-for-life grandfather cast his last vote for Perot in protest to the irresponsibility of government. The anger crossed party lines. Déjà vu?

Today, a similar storm is brewing with the public. Ordinary folks are simply fed up with the government 1.) Spending recklessly; 2.) Institutionalizing corruption; and 3.) Treading on our freedom. What the current administration and down-and-out Republicans are not recognizing is that this anger crosses party lines. Protesters are not tools of some Republican conspiracy. Alternately, Obama was not elected because Americans wanted a leftist, socialized country. Americans are fed up with the government status quo – Republican and Democrat. People want real ‘hope’ and real ‘change’. Obama tapped into this with a nebulous, platitude-type pledge and won convincingly. He mistakenly believes this to be a mandate for liberalism, which it is not. Most Americans just want the following three things from their elected government: 1.) Fiscal responsibility; 2.) True honesty and public-centric efforts; 3.) Absolute, uncompromising protection of our freedom and liberty. Neither Democrats nor Republicans are offering this and the American people are getting quite restless, just like in 1992.

Most people are OK with paying taxes to government as long as it is reasonable, fair and see the benefits of doing so. Most would like government to function within its means. Though federal income tax is relatively low as compared to our neighbor Canada or Europe, this is not the only tax forced upon us. Americans are growing tired of an earned dollar being taxed from multiple directions into oblivion. This dollar gets federal tax, state tax, and local tax. Spend that dollar and it is taxed again. Die and leave the dollar to your kids, it gets taxed yet again. Own land? Tax. Ever rent a car? Tax, tax, tax, tax. Want to fish, own a gun or just camp? Need a license – tax. Own a car? Licensing and registration tax, gas tax, town sticker (tax), etc. Smoke? TAXITY TAX-TAX!! I own a small business and needed to register it with the state – tax; in my county three times (divided into three districts = three taxes, one county); and town for a home office fee (tax). My company’s main office is located in another state with a whole other set of taxes. All of these taxes and governments still need lotteries, bond offerings and out of control borrowing to make ends meet and of course to fund political payback, like expensive airports to nowhere.

Something is wrong here.

Good analysis rom Examiner.com:

The Libertarian National Committee spokesman Donny Ferguson expressed that the former community organizer, President Obama, must reconsider approving a government-sponsored marketing campaign which assaults communities for organizing, regardless of target. If he does not, he does not represent the will of the people.

Ferguson said; “Libertarians find it ironic a community organizer is now using the government to try and stop people from organizing their communities. Instead of using official edicts to smear, slander and intimidate everyday Americans into silence, Democrats should listen to the majority of Americans and drop their plans for a radical government takeover of their health care.”

While the Republican and Independent Parties may appear to lead representation of the people in this instance, they are not above reproach in this debacle. Many of their own have ignored basic American wants and needs and jumped on board the unprecedented legislation now coming out of Washington, doing so purely to add to their stores of political capital or to ensure their own re-elections.

The story here is not the Republican, Independent or Democrat side of the argument, as they are all sullied; it is an unquestionably legitimate reaction by the American people to retain their sovereignty over a government put in place to represent their will.

Our message remains unchanged; Sirs and Madams of the legislature do your job, the job we sent you to do. Represent out choices, read the bills you have written and without question do not forcibly fast-track legislation that will outlive our children and have wider reaching ramifications than you can possibly comprehend.

I just pulled out one part to keep this entry from being a novel, but the whole piece is good. I encourage all to follow the link and read the whole thing.

Americans are inherently rebellious and what you are witnessing is a growing rebellion against government and politics as usual. Democrats run the risk of getting booted and/or forcing another legitimate third party into the fray by their dismissal of dissent and lack of understanding its roots. Republicans run the risk of wrongly believing the movement is instep with them, which is not the case. More and more (now former) Republicans I speak with are loosely calling themselves Libertarian – could this be the third party movement that the Reform Party was not? Maybe, but what is apparent here is that this grassroots movement is getting much larger and much angrier at our government’s waste, corruption and elitism. The sooner Obama recognizes this and ‘actually’ unites instead of giving it lip service, the sooner he can have a popular, successful presidency. Pushing a liberal, government-growing, debt-exploding agenda, while ignoring and ridiculing the no longer ‘silent majority’ of Americans that object, is akin to pouring gas on the flame that may lead to a single-term, forgettable presidency.

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