Representative Democracy

     The fact that Americans are largely uninformed and disconnected with government has been an issue from the beginning. It is why the founders of the constitution instituted the electoral college and formed a representative government, instead of a pure democracy. Political parties formed to organize and inform the public about who to vote for and to bridge the gap between the everyday citizen and the government. Political parties are really just minority groups who have risen because of a disorganized, apathetic public.

Many Americans today are fed up with the division political parties create and the distraction from issues that need to be dealt with. Congress cannot seem to get anything done because each party wants to have it's way. Even worse, the president bipasses congress to make laws through executive orders.This is unconstitutional and in my opinion, leads to the downfall of the American government.  So, the point of this blog entry is to take a look at what is going wrong here, not to see the symptom of the problem but to get down to where the problem really lies. 

How do we inform the public, and get a better system of Government? To begin with throw out the two party system! Todd Phillips has some great ideas in his article, Local Electors,  Phillips states, " We should view political parties as a symptom of an underlying problem—a disorganized, apathetic, uninformed, and disconnected public—and as a “solution” that conflicts with the core value of democracy—that the people shall govern themselves. Government by political parties is government by minority groups, which is contrary to the intentions of the Framers of our Constitution and contrary to the central premise of democracy."

I think the reason our government is no longer functioning as it was ment to be is because we have become too big. We need smaller, more manageable, more local governement. Communities need to be represented on a smaller scale, and those representatives need to be the public's way of being informed. Our country has grown, we are huge compared to when the founders wrote the constitution. We are still trying to run it without enough representatives and without a better form of communication. This two party system is not the answer, it only divides and polarizes the country.  

Liberalism vs Capitalism

In the 1800's anti-monopoly laws limited growth of corporations, but there are no laws limiting growth of the Federal Government. This is an issue in America today, government workers make an average of 78% more than the private sector.

America is no longer a capitalist economy. Capitalism means the countries trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit rather than the government.

Liberalism uses the power of government by transferring wealth from one class of people to another by exploiting the incomes of the private sector through local property taxes, high income taxes, and high college tuition.

Liberalists do not create jobs in the private sector, they only create jobs for more liberalists, or more government jobs. 2.1 million people work for the American Government, costing over 260 billion in wages and benefits. Government workers make an average of 78% more than the private sector, according to the US Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Now, obviously, it is important to have some government employees, and to have good ones, but really!! America is going broke paying high government pensions financed through taxation of the public sector. America cannot afford liberalism!

In my last blog I wrote an article about Welfare. It just doesn't make any sense that here we have 2.1 million people working for the American government, making great incomes and getting even better benefits all the while shouting, "look at how selfish this country is, look at all the poor, raise taxes on the private sector, businesses and corporations and give more to the poor," while they are not creating money, only using money taken from tax paying citizens, to pay their own paychecks.