Washington just doesn't get it!

This administration has very few people who have actually held a real job or had to meet a payroll, the lowest number of any administration in history. I'd love it if we could march up there and physically kick their butts, hand them each a broom or rake and force them on park duty for minimum wage for at least a week. They'd have to find their own accommodations, no going back to their cushy houses, and buy their own food.

I would love to see that, and they just might get the idea that we want to be heard and need to be heard. I really think Obama started out alright but has caved in to so many of the ones inCongress. but the whole thing is we have not had any presidents or members of congress for ages who knew just what it is like to work at a real job where you actually get dirt under your fingernails and work hard for paychecks that are not always adequate. as long as we elect wealthy people who do not have the slightest idea of what we the real people in this country want or need we will not really get heard.sad but true as far as I can see, Dragon.

It's a sorry thing to say but I think this is going to be the most troubled administration in decades. As long as our president doesn't listen to the people he's going to have a lot of trouble. The more he spits in our faces, the angrier we will get and the less he'll be able to do. It's a shame. He had such promise if he would have just been in it to serve the country and not himself--same with the representatives. Actually, Mr. Obama's awakening of the people might just save the country. He may be a blessing in disguise.

I was going to post a separate comment but after reading your's lilwonders, I have to post here because I agree totally with your assessment, especially the first paragraph. Obama and the liberal left are very unhappy that the population has become aware of their shenanigans and are starting to speak out against them. They would like nothing better than to have us all go back to sleep and ignore them, but I don't think that's going to happen as long as they keep steering us down the path to destruction. And make no mistake, Obama was telling them to go and try and convince the American public that they are going to listen to us, but they will be lying. They have no intention of listening to anything we have to say, they just want to pacify everyone and then they will continue to spend money they don't have and put us further and further in debt. The only way we will make them hear us is through our votes. The Massachusetts election made them take notice, but not enough to make them change course. Maybe a few of the more moderate democrats will heed the warning but the radical left will not, so we'll just have to vote them out of office next November. We can't be deterred or swayed by their lies and you know they will try their best to lie their way back into office. We need to get rid of all the "career politicians" and elect more people like Scott Brown. Hopefully, there are some honest people willing to run for office to do good instead of for all the wrong reasons.

He might budge if we rein in our reps and get control of them once again. At least the nation has awakened to how we've been hoodwinked for decades.

Well then maybe it would take a year and maybe it would never make a difference. The point is, we have to start voting for people for their real qualities not because they blind us with charisma or they are good looking or make promises. I hope we learn something from this, if there is still an America by 2012.

I'm looking forward to November when it's likely liberals will be voted out of Congress by droves and the new majority will be able to block the assinine liberal legislation, maybe even to reverse some of the stuff that has already passed.

He and the prez before him have violated the Constitution and we let them get away with it. We're waking up and if he doesn't straighten up he could find himself impeached, as the president before him should have been.

"the economy is bad we turn to the government"--why are we turning to the government?! What happened to our independence? The constitution assigned the government the task of protecting the country and the constitution and everything else was supposed to be up to the people and the states. We've slowly given our power to Washington over the past hundred years and now we have to take it back--most of all, we have to grow a spine and take care of ourselves, not rely on the government to be our nanny. We've now seen what that does.

Exactly I agree, we as a country we have to demand that the things in Washington are managed with professionalism and intelligence. We should demand punishment for corrupted people and punishment for the incompetent people that have made the bad choices that have put us in the horrible economic situation that we are now. We should as a country realize that we are powerful as people. We should supervise and have the power to take those people out of there whenever we think they are disappointed or embarrassing us.

I'm convinced we need to go back to the Constitution. It assigned the Federal government the duty of protecting the country and the constitution and the rest of the governing was up to the states, for the most part. We've let Washington take away our freedoms and free choice for a hundred years now, because we wanted security without sacrifice. We wanted comfort without spending our own money, safety without putting ourselves in harm's way. We wanted to help the poor without getting our hands dirty or making personal contributions. So we let Washington control us and tax us and push us around in order to have entitlement programs. We couldn't be bothered with out old ones so we accepted social security and medicare and farmed them out to nursing homes. I could go on and one but we need to take back our power. First through the voting booth--if we have balls enough to face life without government subsidies--and if that doesn't work, through active rebellion.