Why The U.S.Creates New Problems While Trying to Solve Old Ones and How We Can Break That Cycle

By Bruce Anderson

Some of our politicians seem to be in a constant state of "What's in it for ME?" mode. On the campaign trail they represent themselves as being the champions of the people...always there for us and always doing what's right for the little guys who seem to have lost their voices. But wait, the political champions will fix all of our ills and right all wrongs. They conduct focus groups and take tracking polls to ascertain our concerns. Then they spew out well crafted speeches, campaign slogans and promises which they never intend to keep. All of these things they do to get elected. Once elected they turn from being the man or woman of the people to their natural state...a self serving self promoting politician. It was never their intention to serve their constituents; instead it was just the means to an end. And that end is to gain power over their bosses, you and me, and to get whatever they can from whomever is offering it. This is how Earmarks are passed through the system. "You scratch my Earmark and I'll scratch yours." Don't be angry with them over their actions, they can't help themselves! The story of the scorpion and the frog explains it all.


A scorpion wants to cross a river, but it can’t swim. It asks a frog to help. The frog is worried, but the scorpion promises "I won’t sting you, because if I did I would drown." In mid river the scorpion stings the frog. The dying frog asks, "why?" and the drowning scorpion answers "that’s my nature."


It's in their nature just as it's in the nature of the scorpion. If we continue to ignore the nature of the politicians who run our government, then we too risk drowning with the scorpions.

This way of doing business or governing is not governing at all but rather systemic corruption (worthy of a RICO investigation) which results in diminished: representation, freedom of the citizenry and a declining civilization. Let's not forget the lessons of the fallen civilizations of the Greeks. Romans and the Soviets. It was corruption which brought down those empires. We can plainly see that ours is and has been for decades - possibly centuries - a corrupt government. Placing self interest first and country second or maybe even last has been the rule for some if not most of those supposed public servants.

So, how can we fix these problems? The very first thing we should do is to recognize that the answers don't lie with those who created these problems but rather with those who are empowered, by The Constitution of The United States of America, to elect these representatives. Once we recognize that WE are the government then and only then will we start to recover or reclaim our country. To put it another way; our country's problems aren't the fault of those corrupt politicians in Washington D.C., it's our fault. The proverbial buck stops with us. In order for the citizens of the United States to regain control of our government we must first know the Constitution, The Bill of Rights, a general knowledge of the laws of our country, we are hiring and the issues of the day. That is a lot to know! What's the alternative? To rely on others to do not only our bidding but to act in our best interest? To "trust" them? How's that worked so far? And yes, I did say hiring. We are the hiring supervisors in this organization. So, we must also do the recruiting, we must define the job description, the job qualifications and the minimum requirement which need to be met by the successful candidate. We must generate our own application pool and never again wait for the next candidate to knock on our door asking for the job. We must create an organization from the ground up. From the city to the county to the district to the state and ultimately national level.

In the recent past the voters of our country have voted for candidates from either the Democratic or Republican parties. When they have become disillusioned by the party in power they have voted the opposing party into office. Clearly this method of choosing our representatives doesn't work. These are both "big tent" organizations, but they've let in too many corrupt politicians into their tent or the tents canvas has rotted from the continued exposure to the insessant corruption that has rendered them useless as a shelter for its members and useless for public service.

We need to create a new independent party truly representative of the citizens of our country. A party whose office holders and candidates are truly held accountable by their constituents. There are some politicians currently who are good people doing good work for their constituents. But, I won't be voting for them as a Democrat or a Republican. We must convince those good servants of the people to leave their parties and join with us. After we fully vet them, of course.


If you are looking for answers to our country's problems you will not find those answers in either of those two parties. They are there merely to drive, or activate the base, into the direction of their our choosing. That is not representation. It is their agenda that they serve, not ours. They stay in power by dividing the electorate.


Never again should we lap up the Madison Avenue prepackaged commercially hyped hand puppet.

Never again should any sitting President, Senator or Congressperson have an (R) or a (D) following their name. Neither of those private clubs represent the U.S. citizenry and never have.

Our freedoms, rights, choices and our country's treasury are slipping completely away from our control. We must endeavor to regain control over our country, its' policies, treaties, foreign and domestic laws and our lives.

Aways remember that we are in charge. We are the bosses and we are the parents. We have left our children to run amok. And now we must give them a time-out.

Let this be our battle cry, "Time-out, Time-out." And for most of those holding office, It's time to GET OUT!