It's about time!

It's about time someone with some punch stepped forward and said "this needs fixing." Thank you, Mr. Pickens, for your interest. The rest of us need to write not just our federal senators and congressional representatives, but our state and local legislators, to make them understand the urgency of our situation. And maybe we should take a cue from the group that met in the Applebee's restaurant in Georgia, and get some grass-roots voices hollering!

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Permalink Reply by R. S. Sherrod on July 11, 2008 at 3:07pm: Perhaps the Sleeping Giant majority is beginning to stir from a long sleep. T Boone Pickens has the unequivacal respect of everyone in the oil business. To invest millions of his own money to awaken the American people serves to prove that he is truly an American Patriot in times in which corporate America has reduced the individual to a quiet shadow. I congradulate Mr. Pickens on his genius to provide a reasonable plan to bail out the American people and wake them from their gratuitous slumber.

Permalink Reply by Mary on July 23, 2008 at 11:19am: Government seems to forget they were chosen to represent us. When they stop doing what we the people pick then to do they are no longer acting for use but become tyrants. We only give them the power for a short time and they have to give it back. So I say take back our voice and sound out loud. They are suppose to work for us.

Permalink Reply by Mary on July 23, 2008 at 11:23am: Another thought I heard somewhere. Liberty is easies to get than to keep. Also any liberty taken away after the threat, disaster etc has passed has to be given back.

Permalink Reply by Wishin' and Hopin' on July 23, 2008 at 5:05pm: It is soooo important for us to be involved in our own government! I have written my senators, my congressman, my state representatives, and talked to one candidate for state legislature. Based on my conversation with the candidate, I will vote for him come this fall. I have heard back from one senator, and I accept his efforts. I have not heard back from the other senator (except an automated email), and I have not heard from my congressman or either state representative. Guess who I'm not voting for this fall? If I don't know your position on an issue, how can I support it?

Permalink Reply by Mary on July 24, 2008 at 8:51am: The only elected official I ever trusted and liked here was Tom Dashel. He was the only one who ever took the time to answer my letters and not a just short thank you note either, but ones that were quiet long. I have never missed an election.
I was one of the first 18-year-olds who voted when 18 years olds were given the right to vote.
Now this years primary election some one forgot to give my daughter and I the complete ballot. We were only give the presidential ballots and not a single ballot for local elections or those running for senate or congress. I don't know which it was as I was never given the ballot.
I didn't question it at the time because they do things very strange here. When I asked earlier this year when the primary eletion was going to be not a single person in our city hall could tell me the answer. Now I wonder if they just didn't want me to know.

I did meet one person who was running and after my talk would have never voted for him but I was denied that right. Small town corruption. And are not small towns a example of the bigger picture?