It's time for us to make a big change
It's the beginning of election season and I want to remind all voters of the ineptitude of our current government. School districts, park districts, local municipalities, counties, states, the federal government.
At all levels, they have failed us -- the people who elected them.
You want examples? How about immigration laws? Health care? Energy prices? Social Security? Foreign policy? union contracts? State budgets? County budgets? Infrastructure? Unemployment? Tax increases? The list goes on and on.
So how're all these things working out for you?
The people we've elected to solve these problems have done nothing -- except for voting themselves pay raises.
They all have neglected their duties and ignored our laws to suit their own needs. They have allowed issues to go unresolved in the hopes a new one will take center stage and we'll forget about the old.
Steroid abuse in baseball? Come on. They want to spend money they don't have to please the people who will re-elect them and tax the rest of us to pay for it all.
Mismanagement, waste, nepotism, corruption, patronage and cronyism are commonplace. They are selling out our country for their own greedy needs.
We've let them know we want changes made such as term limits and recall provisions. Has any of this happened? The foxes are truly guarding the henhouse.
Enough is enough! The best way to take back our country is to vote all incumbents out of office. All of them.
And if the new people don't get the job done we'll vote them out too.
No more free rides and no more career politicians unless they are doing the job they promised us they would.
Bob Meyer
Palatine