Has the government turned on the people and begun creating its own policy .?

Question

A politician wrote this once about the people . Read it carefully .I apprehend that excluding the people of the colonies from all share in the choice of the grand council will give extreme dissatisfaction, as well as the taxing them by act of Parliament, where they have no representative. It is very possible that this general government might be as well and faithfully administered without the people as with them; but where heavy burdens have been laid on them, it has been found useful to make it as much as possible their own act; for they bear better, when they have, or think they have, some share in the direction; and when any public measures are generally grievous, or even distasteful, to the people, the wheels of government move more heavily.


What better way to have a war and then continue it against the will of the people .
All I hear now is how we can not pull the troops out . I remember one day we had no troops in Iraq ;a day later we had as many as we do now .
Reverse this.

Answer 1

Thank you for the Benjamin Franklin Quote. For all of you who missed it, it's from one of his letters to William Shirley dated December 17, 1754 concerning Taxation without Representation. You know, one of the main issues for the Revolution (we had a nice little tea party in Boston over it too!)

Since 9/11 until just recently, it was taboo and unpatriotic to question where our government is leading us. The majority forgot that it is OUR DUTY to have a voice in our government and our country. Being patriotic is supporting the Country, not whoever happens to be running it at the time. A President once said "Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president." (That was Teddy Roosevelt)

One of the major problems with our government today is that Corporations and Special Interest Groups have more influence on policy than US Citizens. Are we really stupid enough to want policies that encourage our jobs to go overseas? Then we turnaround and buy things that could have put food on the table for an American worker if his/her job hadn't left the country for Corporate Profit. Wake Up People!

Another Teddy quote: "The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others."

Answer 2

One of the for term limits: when they make lifetime careers in the Senate or Congress they begin to feel 'supreme' and the will of the people is irrelevant and they will eventually change the laws so that the people are not informed about what they are doing.

We the people are not really electing our representatives; they are beholden to big business and are compelled to pass laws that will profit the big contributors to their campaigns. That is how they are buying votes and those of use who cannot contribute hundreds of thousands and only have one vote are being sold down the river.

Our Country is truly disintegrating due to this practice. They give themselves raises, up their lifetime retirement, don't show up for votes, lie to us to get elected and then ignore us. They count on us being too busy to keep track of them, they tax us for their pork-barrel projects and they continue to tax for things that are absolutely no benefit to us.

Answer 3

Through greed, corruption, coercion, and looking the other way, we now have in power, those whose only purpose is to continue to serve themselves as they see fit.

When the day comes (and it did), that over 90% of the country disagrees with an immigration/amnesty bill as written and we end up fighting our own representatives to vote for the will of the people and not against it.... We're in big trouble!

Answer 4

Parliament? You must be British

From what I can tell about your government, you people are the one who let it happen. You gave up your firearms for chrissakes! No wonder you people will always be subjects and not citizens.

If the gov't tried to ban guns in the USA, there would be chaos in the streets. Unlike you, we aren't going to let the state take away our freedoms.

Answer 5

Governments turned on their people ages ago. In fact, the essence of government is coercive force, so it's kind of unreasonable to expect anything good to come of that.