While
trying to get my representative to listen to what I had to say
about the unconstitutionality of the health care bill, I met up with
a brick wall. And the main substance of that brick wall was the term
anti-government. Whether Congresswoman Louise Slaughter really
believed it of me or not, she made me out to be a right-wing
anti-government nut.
Louise
Slaughter clearly knew she could write me off as such and use
that excuse for those who asked her about her reason for not
listening to me and others like me. Try as I might, I could not
get anyone to get through to her.
I
took people in her office, into confidence and told them of the job
that my own mother had retired from, a job with the federal
government, in the very building that Louise Slaughter has an office
in. I told them other things, like some about my
household, to show them that we are as American as apple pie. But
nothing I said mattered, because it didn't really matter if I was a
nut or not.
Slaughter only
had to paint me as anti-government. This was easily
done because so many conservatives openly claim to be. So
I ask you, are you for less government, or are you actually for no
government? Are you anti-government? If you are
anti-government, please consider the
following.
Our
federal government was meant to be small and non-intrusive into our
states' and our personal business. At this time it is
a mess and not as our founding fathers intended it to
be. It is not protecting us from foreign invasions, while
along with other take-overs, it is taking over our health care.
It is allowing those who are to serve us, to instead,
dictate to us and live as royalty on our dime. The last thing that
we should be doing is pulling away from our government or acting as
if we don't need or want a government to do the job
that is supposed to be done.
We
need to stand up to our government and take control of it. Being
anti-government is basically saying that one is fearful
of the government. We want our government to fear us, to
realize that we can and will remove them. We should never retreat
from our government. Nor should we ever say "no" to
governing that actually is constitutional. It is not us against
our government. It needs to be us for our government, for the taking
back of our government. The people in our
government are just people, just regular one pant-leg on at
time, people.
Debra J.M. Smith - © 08-03-10
Updated with audio on 02-17-11
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