Taking America Back

           The world is becoming more volatile. Weather is tagging along. The flaws that produced worldwide economic disaster remain untouched by those who could fix them. The stage is set for the next trickle down bailout and congress is dithering—punching all the emotional buttons it can in order to avoid solving problems. It’s all reminiscent of Disney’s “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” with Mickey in his little pointy hat, furiously waving his wand, while the world swirls out of control around him. What’s a poor boy to do?

           Around here, we have to consider the possibility that congress is doing exactly what its owners want it to do—mostly spending its time seeking their money and promising those little inconsequential “adjustments” and “omissions” that have brought America from the 1970’s to today’s brink of squalor. To the place where two jobs are no longer enough to provide for families. Where some among congress feel secure claiming that a minimum wage is not needed. And where poverty wage employers routinely steal from their workers.

           But the present owners of congress are not unstoppable. They can be beaten. When we see candidate Osborn say, “Let’s take it back,” we can’t help thinking that a 90% turn out in primary and general elections might just do the trick, albeit not in the way he probably meant. It could be the opening salvo in an evolutionary change to truly conserve America’s core values. That’s what a poor boy should do, become a REAL conservative.