Why We Vote
The Register Star has brought together a group of people from all over the Rock River Valley to serve on our Election 2008 Voters’ Panel. These men and women are Republicans, Democrats, Independents and Green party members. Some are high school students. Some are retired. And some fall in between those two age groups. They all share this: The upcoming election is important and voters do have voices. They’ll share them in this blog.

Archive for February 29th, 2008

What’s Wrong With This Country

5 comments February 29th, 2008

Every problem this country faces can be traced to our national government. The war in Iraq, an energy policy that was written by the oil companies, the declining dollar, huge budget deficits, foreign trade agreements that are called “Free Trade” that are only free to the other countries, the outsourcing of jobs, just to name a few. All of these problems can be traced back to the President and his administration and our Congress. It doesn’t matter which party controls both branches of our government. Whether Democrat or Republican, the results are always the same. But, it’s not our system of government that is the culprit; it’s us. We keep believing the rhetoric that candidates spew out. Words that are written by someone else who is a master at telling us what we want to hear. Hollow words. We have to vote smarter. We have to challenge the candidates on their rhetoric. Once elected, we have to let them know what we want and that we are monitoring their actions. Another words, we have to hold them accountable and let them know that we do. No more free passes for our elected officials. Either they represent us or they get sent home the next election. We have to be the lobbyists they listen to. We don’t have the big money that the lobbyists have but we have something bigger and more powerful…. our ballot.

Don Gugliuzza
Don R. Gugliuzza