Things would change if only we voted

Leo Dietrich asks some interesting questions in his recent letter to the editor. For instance, “How can a guy, Newt Gingrich, whose parents were teenagers and divorced right after his birth and his mother remarried to a military man shortly after, become so filthy rich?”

Good question, Leo, but you might not want to limit it just to Gingrich. Did you ever wonder about John Kerry? For that matter, you could ask pretty much the same question of the majority of our Washington elites.

You end your letter with this: “What is happening in Washington? What is happening to America? What is happening to us that we no longer have any control over our politicians?”

How can you seriously ask such a question when you know, or should know, that so precious few of us even bother to vote? Why would it be otherwise when there is so little interest in the sacred right of selecting our nation’s leaders?

I’ve often said, and I’ll say it yet again, that there is no better way to shake up politicians than for the vast majority of the electorate to once again pay very close attention to what’s going on in Washington, and then go out and vote accordingly.

John Babush

Big Rock