It seems that many people are concerned in this election over who will best represent them as President.
The sad part is elected officials stopped representing us decades ago and not just at the highest level of government but pretty much across the aboard.
Take the Presidential election for starters. It appears that Hillary Clinton has close to 20 million of her own money in it. Now, the last time I checked, the average American doesn’t have anywhere near that. Certainly Hillary is not the exception. – Politicians need to be multi-millionaires to even think about running for office.
If that were not enough, once there, they still won’t be any closer to understanding the average American’s plight.
Politicians don’t have to worry about Social Security (they have their own plans that seem to be paying very well). A lot don’t have to worry about medical issues (their bills are 100 percent paid for life).
The result is that we don’t (and won’t) have people in office that represent the people because they are not typical people. They will continue to represent oil companies, insurance companies, drug companies, etc, etc.
Fine, I suppose this is where you look for some witty insights to my mind. A "bio" of sorts. Here is the deal... I ride motorcycles, smoke cigars, golf, kayak, fly, race my car through the mountains, write (a lot), and travel extensively. I am almost old enough not to care what other people think about me...almost. ~Godfadr
Which is exactly why you need to start pushing my name around for the election in 8 years (when I’m first eligible to be President)…I’ll appoint informed regular people instead of career politicians to my cabinet. (and don’t forget, i’ll support the reintroduction of transfatty acids into your frying oil for much more delicious cheesesticks!)
I’m guessing Mike will have have the South’s vote tied up with the promise of reintroducing transfats in our oil. Those french fries just aren’t the same.
I have to agree with Fred. The politicians are not a representation of the average (or even the above average) American.
I will vote for you Mike!
I’m not sure you can criticize everone in Washington for the likes of a few bad eggs. It seems to me that when people get disgusted with life, they always blame the politicians for it. It would be easy to lay the whole ball of wax on Mr. Bush’s lap, but I am not sure any one person is ever at fault. It is a mighty big place we live in.
It has pretty much been proven that the current administration is largely dealing with the good (or bad) that was created by the previous administration. It is also not the President that has the greatest impact but the Senate and Congress.
That said, I believe most people enter in to politics with good intentions. Special interest groups and concessions make it difficult. In the end, I think the politician has to make a choice on what to put through. Kind of like not wanting to make the same mistakes your parents did when raising a child – but you will just go and make your own.
Check out the book, “The Great Derangement” that has recently come out. Part of it is an eye opening look at the inner working of the corrosive Washington system and the myth that there actually are “two parties”.
Much of the money these people have to run, are given to them, sponsered money. Sure they may have some to start with, but much of it has to do with whom they can get to donate money to their cause.
Our only hope is that whomever is elected as president, or in any area of politics for that matter, is that they remember what it was like to be an average everyday American citizen.