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What has me so disgusted, disgruntled, and disturbed, is that "government" these days means protecting us from ourselves. When this country was founded, the role for government was not to insert itself into every aspect of our lives, but rather to be there for issues of infrastructure (roads, postal needs, regulate community property, law enforcement) and national security. Unfortunately, what it's become is a monolithic body of self-interest. No longer are elected officials about representing their constituents; instead, they are all about pleasing "the people" (whoever they are...I don't remember the last time I felt like my government was trying to please me) enough to get re-elected while carving up the rest amongst themselves.

If you need proof of this, consider the legal bribery that our House and Senate engage in to convince others to vote one particular way or another. Just look at the "stimulus packages" passed under Presidents Bush and Obama's watch in the amount of nearly $2 trillion. To get votes, it is common practice to throw millions of dollars at the pet projects of those certain representatives who need some convincing. This money is simply tacked onto the bill in question as it makes its way through legislation. That is exactly how the $1 trillion health reform bill that just got signed by President Obama ended up being 2700 pages! 2700 pages? Really?

Big politics is filthy, no two ways about it. And I am truly sorry to those honest local politicians who get smeared with the crap that rolls down Capitol Hill. Look out below!