Had Enough?

If you are worried about the direction of this Country you are not alone. As Gallup reports, "a record-high 81% of Americans are dissatisfied with the way the country is being governed, adding to negativity that has been building over the past 10 years."

Source: Gallup Polls.


Look at this chart. If you hold any political office in this country you should be ashamed. You should do as I have urged my Congressman, Barney Frank, to do, resign (perhaps he listened). These results are dreadful and I wonder how long it will be before we throw all the bums out and fix this? Consulting the words of our founding document, The Declaration of Independence, we seem to be getting pretty close to the breaking point:

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, – That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security

(exact quotation, underlining added by author of this paper)

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