Politicians today, Instead of listening and responding, show up with a plan that must be sold to voters. Instead of paying attention to the priorities in our communities, the goal is to convince us of a centrally planned, Washington-knows-best approach.
I call bs on this approach and its time voters get the attention of both parties.
John Maxwell said at his International Maxwell Conference (IMC) last week;
“We have no leadership, both parties are guilty, it’s time to furlough Congress, without pay, for four years and see how we do without them.”
Time to retire the “career” of politics and think about term limits, publicly funded elections to eliminate big-money influence, end lobbying, and for all of us to think of being an elected official for one term as service to our country.
Congress could meet one month a quarter while they hold jobs (whoa now they’re scared). My guess is with campaigning they aren’t serving much more than this anyway. No retirement except social security and their own private pension at work, etc.
Mostly we would discover States can do the heavy lifting of the day-to-day and we could downsize the Federal Bureaucracy and there are lots of open jobs for the bureaucrats whose job is eliminated.
Do you see why “career politicians” want to “sell us something?”
We’ve fallen into a monologue which is defined as the “story one tells one’s self” vs a dialogue which is defined as a “joint creation of reality.”
Something to think about.
Einstein said, “ the definition of insanity is to keep doing what you are doing and expect a different result.”
That defines where we are unless we do something very different…
It’s time.
Gratefully yours, Steve
