A Bottom Line Question For You...

Hello Senator Obama,
My name is Joe Lunch Buckett and I am in every conceivable way your average citizen living here in the USA. I live in an average home, located in an average neighborhood, in and average town, in an average county, in an average part of the Midwest. I also have average friends, I drive an average car, I have an average job that pays an average salary with which I pay my average mortgage and my average bills. Like most of my average colleagues, I put my pants on one leg at a time before I go to work every day.

Without Representation
And much like my average friends, I feel absolutely un-represented in local, county, state, and national politics. I’m effectively ignored except for those rare occasions every once in a while, when your fellow politicians need votes in order to remain in office, so they can go back and cater to the corporations that really own and control them. Other than that my average friends and I are invisible to politicians. I guess without a big fat wallet in hand, we’re kind of hard to see except at election time of course.

The Dilemma
Here’s the problem as I see it. To be an active player in politics these days requires two things, namely money and time. Of course if you lack money, you also lack time because you end up spending most of your time trying to earn money with which to pay all your average bills. This average financial dilemma that affects most of my average friends, soaks up most of our time, not to mention our creative energy, and it works against most of us playing an active role in our much celebrated political democracy.

Our Democracy In Critical Condition
Speaking of democracy, I have a question for you. I’d like to know how a democracy is supposed to exist, let alone thrive, when wealth and power is becoming more and more concentrated in the hands of a few at the expense of the many? America’s 200 year-old experiment in democracy is looking less and less democratic and more and more autocratic to me and my average friends.

The Bottom Line Question As Promised
Now don’t get me wrong here. I’m no big government, socialist so I guess my bottom line question is, how can we democratize the free market and reverse the rapidly growing cancer known as the wealth gap and salvage our battered democracy from the jaws of Consolidated Wealth and Power, Inc.? And to complicate matters even more, how can we do this when the leaders of both mainstream political parties are on the payroll, and thus beholden to Consolidated Wealth and Power, Inc.?

Anyway, if you’d answer this bottom line question for me and all my average friends, that would be a wonderful place to begin this 48 month exchange. In the mean time you might pass this blog site on to McCain or anyone else that you think is legitimately concerned with the opinions of average American citizens like myself, and my friends.

Sincerely,

Joe Lunch Buckett