Purge the career politicians

Purge the career politicians

Some comments for voters to consider in our fast approaching general election, especially the voter who wants a real change to take place in Washington, D.C.

In my opinion, the first thing to bring about even a chance for a change is for a change in the way voters vote. The second is to change our representatives in Congress, not some of them, but all of them. The career politicians’ main concern is to maintain their careers. And they are not concerned about how much of the taxpayer’s money they use to that end.

My suggestion would be for the voters to make up their own minds on who to vote for instead of relying on someone’s endorsement. Anyone’s endorsement comes from their own personal perspective and may be biased. Certainly a political party’s endorsement is biased. I also consider The Vindicator’s and auto unions’ endorsements biased.

The Vindicator’s editorial staff has complained about our country’s huge and growing deficits. The editorial staff also complained about the taxpayer’s contribution to the Public Employees Retirement System. Yet they ignore the legislative representatives who thrust these huge deficits upon the taxpayers and the editorial staff often endorses these same representatives to continue in office and vote for those huge and growing deficits-the ones they complain about.

The auto unions have complained about NAFTA. However, the union hierarchy only hates Republicans who were in favor of NAFTA. They still love Democratic President Bill Clinton who signed NAFTA into law. They also endorsed Democratic Sen. John Kerry for president even after he voted for NAFTA.

A good portion of our taxpayer deficit is nothing more than our legislative representatives politicking at the taxpayers’ expense. The legislative representatives are either paying off their political supporters or they are trying to line up future votes to keep themselves in office for life. The taxpayers be damned.

Voters would do well to consider what a letter writer said a few years ago about voting. It went something like this: If you always vote the way you always have, you will always get what you have always got.

Donald G. Baker, Youngstown