Health & Fitness
Homework For Our Legislators
Rasmussen's book "The People's Money" tells us how to wrest control from the political class and charts a course to budget solvency.
Homework for our Legislators:
Read The People’s Money, How Voters Will Balance the Budget and Eliminate the National Debt, by Scott Rasmussen.
Attention: Political Class Members (legislators, regulators, bureaucrats): you may want to ban this book. If voters read it, your job will be in jeopardy. It contains dangerous ideas about who is the sovereign entity in this country – the people – not the political class. It claims that politicians work for the people not for themselves! Outrageous thoughts.
On the other hand, if you read it and seriously act on the recommendations, you could be a hero. Make a choice, because if the voters read this book they will be demanding answers and drastic changes.
According to Rasmussen’s polls, voters are already aware and fed up: “only five percent (5%) of likely U.S. Voters rate the job Congress is doing as good or excellent. Seventy percent (70%) view Congress’ job performance as poor, just a point lower than the highest level ever measured. Rasmussen states: “politicians in Washington continue to blame the voters for allegedly wanting more government than they are willing to pay for. The effort of politicians to pin the blame on voters diverts attention from the real entitlement mentality that threatens to bankrupt the nation: A political class that feels entitled to rule over the rest of us. Government spending has gone up every year since 1954 because political leaders have pursued their own agenda rather than listening to voters.” It seems the “political class” has forgotten that taxes collected are the people’s money. It’s ours. We should have a say in how it is spent. Instead, the entrenched political class has led us through decades of more spending, increased taxes, corporate welfare and bailouts, reckless wars, fraudulent raiding of Trust Funds (Social Security, pension funds, Medicare) and a growing federal bureaucracy.
Rasmussen’s book will make you angry (if you are not already there), yet it is a most hopeful and encouraging work about what can be done to get us out of our financial crisis and lead us toward a brighter future with our founding values restored and intact. While highly critical of the “political class” for getting us into massive federal debt (much more than they admit to), Rasmussen insists that American voters have the common sense and belief in the founding principles of our country to lead us back to solvency and a healthy economy – if the politicians follow their lead – or voters elect new representatives who will listen to them. It is full of creative, constructive and logical recommendations suggested by American voters. He describes how his polls demonstrate voter wisdom and the seeds of strategies for making Social Security and Medicare trust funds solvent; cutting defense without jeopardizing our security; eliminating corporate welfare (separation of government and corporations, just as we have separation of church and state); reforming welfare and downsizing the federal government.
Voters: before you give candidates your vote this year, ask them if they read this book and did their homework!
If you read the book, what do you think?
