This week’s prompts for Mama Kat’s Writers Workshop were all so good… so I turned to twitter for help. Asked my friends to choose a number 1-5… and one person a piece chose 1, 2, 4 & 5. So #3 was left out – and it was decided that it meant that would be the “winner”.
3.) What makes you mad, and what are you going to do about it?
One of the questions that is brought up frequently in the eHarmony “closed questions” phase is about how passionate you get about issues. {I don’t know why guys ask this question a lot, but it is a “popular” one.} My answer always is… with a little discussion, I can get passionate on just about any issue.
Especially politics. I hate to say it… but it’s true. {As a side note, I was almost a political science major in college.}
There’s something in me that doesn’t quite fall into either of the 2 party system that we have today. The Republicans seem to be too strict on their social issues and the Democrats seemingly want to keep spending & having the government provide all kinds of services that somehow we all have to pay for… even though I (and many others) will not get to benefit from them.
I don’t usually write about the ‘hot button issues’ of the day because I get so worked up when I am writing about them that it all just seems to come out wrong. It all just makes me so mad that I write and write and write… and in the end it just doesn’t make sense.
Like how there are 535 members of Congress… yet the major two parties there can’t seem to see eye to eye or TRY to understand each other long enough to actually DO something to help people in this country.
With the highest unemployment rate that we’ve seen in years and the economy still not quite jumping to the forefront of providing jobs… it seems that many members of Congress are more focused on making themselves look good (because apparently they all think they are celebrities) rather than helping to make the lives of the people they work for better.
Yes, the Democratic party joined together and provided a health care plan… that won’t fully go into effect until the President is out of office {even if he would win a 2nd term.} The one thing that’s missing with this plan is that the government employees (essentially Congress) won’t have to follow the measures within this plan… they still get to continue in their own plan and system.
About 8 years ago, then President Bush and the Republican party pushed through tax cuts for the American people that are set to expire this year. And neither the Democrats OR Republicans could come up with a plan to continue these… essentially giving EVERY AMERICAN (no matter your tax rate) a tax increase for the upcoming tax season.
Now with small businesses {the leading employer and economic driver in this country} not being sure of how they’re going to pay for these tax increases and new healthcare mandates – they probably won’t be jumping on the bandwagon to hire more workers for a little bit yet.
Which means that the slow economy continues…
If this were a perfect world {which I know it will never be} the congressional members would actually sit down and listen to one another. Peacefully. With respect. And then I think they could actually get something done.
And short of running and getting myself elected to a seat in congress {which to be honest, I don’t have a lot of desire to deal with their pompous attitudes}, there isn’t a whole lot I can do.
I’m going to continue to do what I’ve done in the past… write to my congressional representative and senators. I don’t think they (or their staff) actually read this mail (electronic or snail), but it’s still worth sending. Maybe – someday – one of these elected officials will take me up on something I said. Maybe they will listen and hear what I’m saying.
Now… see what I mean about things not always making sense when I start writing about things that get me all worked up?!?!
What is the one thing that you get mad about… and can you do anything about it??
