Part 3, American Politicians Are "Just Not Into You:" Warnings From Our Past

We have spent the past two days discussing the reality and examples of how the American political class is “just not into you.” Once you have cast your votes in elections, the elected politicians typically forget that you exist. They base their subsequent actions, votes, and initiatives based on personal and selfish greed, campaign fund raising for their perpetual reelection campaign, and business and union cronies.

We have proven our point over the past few days with many examples, including:

• Lobbyists being placed in high ranking White House and Federal positions.
• Billions and billions of dollars spent on bailing out America’s biggest companies such as General Motors, Chrysler, Citibank, Bank of America, AIG, etc.
• Taxpayer wealth being directed to build light transit infrastructure for Nancy Pelosi campaign donors which also benefit Nancy Pelosi’s husband’s real estate holdings.
• Hundreds of earmarks embedded in the Federal budget every year as favors to campaign donors or family and friends’ interests.

But apparently politicians have not been into citizens’ interests for a long time. Consider the following list of warnings from past U.S. Presidents that warned us of this exact same thing: politicians are just not into you. The list comes courtesy of an article on the Mr. Conservative website, written by Jodi Swan and posted on August 20, 2014. The original post and more details can be accessed at:

http://mrconservative.com/2014/08/48045-former-u-s-presidents-warn-invisible-govt-is-running-the-country/

1) Thomas Jefferson, in a letter he penned to John Taylor on May 28, 1816:

“I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.”

2) Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote in a letter written by FDR in 1933:

“A financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.”

3) John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson’s Vice President, came to the same FDR conclusion but about hundred years earlier in 1836:

“A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.”

4) Theodore Roosevelt, writing in his autobiography, said:

“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.”

5) Not included in Ms. Swan’s article but include in our book, 'Love My Country, Loathe My Government,” we have similar words from Woodrow Wilson:

“The government, that was designed fro the people, has gotten into the hands of the bosses and their employees, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.”

The fact that companies, unions and other entities pour hundreds of millions of dollars into politicians’ campaigns every voting season should not come as a surprise that those same entities control what goes on after the elections are over. That is why President Obama has attended at least 400 political fund raisers since becoming President, far more than any other President that came before him. Some of these fundraisers charged tens of thousands of dollars just to attend. You can be sure that ordinary American citizens were not paying those prices to be present.

This why Step 39 from “Love My Country, Loathe My Government” is so important. Step 39 would impose term limits on all Federal politicians, they would all be “one and done.” Since most of the corruption occurs when politicians constantly run a perpetual reelection campaign, a perpetual campaign that requires constantly funding from rich entities that are buying future favors, the ability to make that future very short, one term, one hopefully cut down on reliance on cronies and financial benefactors. 

Once politicians realize that they only have one term to make a difference, the need to campaign for financial support goes away and maybe, just maybe, politicians might get into you and your needs and not the needs of those that financially back them. 

The fact that political quotes form our distance past warned us about these outside monied interests and their power over elected officials have warned us of this for the past two centuries shows that changing the status quo will not be easy. Term limits is a good place to start to get the political class into our needs vs. the needs of the wealthy and influential.

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Please visit the following sites for freedom:

Term Limits Now: http://www.howmuchworsecoulditget.com
http://www.reason.com
http://www.cato.org
http://www.robertringer.com/
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