They Work For Us

As social media starts getting fired up for the next election complaining about issues not discussed in debates over the blah-blah-blah of campaigns, you stand at the voting booth and choose ‘Eeny, meeny, miny, moe’, then continue to complain when the chosen arrive for his or her SoundBits.

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America”.

We have forgotten, these folks work for us. We pay them with taxes. We give them cars and nice offices and pay their phone bills and travels expenses. We pay for their meals and their holidays. We pay for their security and their haircuts.

They should be thankful for what the American public gives them, but they want to keep their job and feeling of privilege (as anyone would in that position) so they are constantly campaigning rather than doing what their job description requires.

Perhaps if We The People only gave candidates a fixed amount of cash to spend on their campaign could balance the presentations and messages? We The People all know there will always be the under-the-table deals by corporations as a promise of rewards.

If our representatives are not doing our bidding, what is there to do?

We The People can wait until the next voting session to select another person to fill the office and then cross our fingers. We The People can walk the streets with placards and chants. We The People can post memes on social media hoping to become influences.

Those who have been chosen must feel like too many plates spinning trying to cover all the topics, but that is what the job requires. Every agenda from global warming to local pipelines and streetlights has to be dealt with. War, education, hunger, money, violence, religion, the list goes on and on.

So if We The People decides what they voted for did not deliver, what is the return policy?