Editor:
Maybe I’m a little off in center field here, but consider how Congress has acted – or not acted – on both sides of the aisle.
The Democrat Party leadership has conspired with the Clinton campaign to mock their members who supported Bernie Sanders; and the Republican Party leadership’s inability to get behind any reasonable platform leaves us with Donald Trump (a man a year ago I didn’t even give serious consideration to).
I have come to this conclusion: Neither party from the DNC to the RNC, throughout Congress into the president, Department of State, DEQ, EPA, NEA or any other department of the federal government, other than our uniformed soldiers, gives a rip about what the people of the United States desire for our country.
I remember when the federal government was an occasional blip. Now it would appear they have complete control of our everyday lives. From our healthcare to what we drive and how we take care of our children.
This is not the America I grew up in and I will quote Hillary Clinton from a statement she made last month: “We must get a Democrat in the White House so we can complete the transformation of this country.”
Who asked for a transformation?
The Federal Government was not created to “transform” anything. It was created to represent the people by following the guidelines in the Constitution as written! It was designed by a group of people who had just escaped the tyranny of an overbearing government. They understood that a free people, with the assets this country had available, could become great. They gave the states the power so that the individual had access to a governing body that would represent the particular peoples of a particular region, with its unique assets.
The blackmail has been successful, folks! Our state, county and city governments are financially strangled by federal rules and they can now transform our lives into whatever “they” determine is best.
Those of you who like the direction things are going have seen how little your leaders really think of you while you still have the right to say what you think.
Don’t believe for a moment that will improve when they no longer need your opinion.
The federal government needs to be put back in its Tiny Little Box.
Tim Riley
Sweet Home