Promote Conservation: A Short-Term Solution

[Matt Timion]

Originally Posted by DaX

I must disagree with you - believe it or not, we the people hold the power to turn this all around through voting. It's just as much our fault for not voting these big spenders out as it is for them doing the spending. I love America and wish to see it succeed for long years, and I think it's going to take what's happening to get people to wake up and take the power back away from the huge government and chop big parts off to minimize the government, then we can run the country as the people want it. It sickens me to see how many things big government has it's hands in where it doesn't belong (can you tell yet that I'm a huge proponent for pivatization? ).

The unfortunate reality is that when you vote you can either vote in a party that spends a lot, or a party that spends a lot more.

IMO the only way to solve this problem is at the legislative level, which would require a Congress who was 1) not crooked, and 2) not getting paid tons of money to remain crooked.

These guys are never going to change the system, and they are the only ones with the real power to do so. They just make too much money and get too much power.

I'm pretty certain that the people wanted to vote in a president with a conservative fiscal policy, but they got Bush instead. He has outspent any Democratic president even, and that's not even including the cost of the war.

I honestly have no idea how giving the people the vote is going to make a difference when they only get to choose between a bunch of evil white guys.