The congress and the president have agreed to abandon our constitutional republic in favor of a Politburo. Our elected representatives will not decide the tough budget issues. We will instead have six Republicans and six Democrats creating debt and deficit legislation, while the other 533 get to sit on the sidelines and merely vote yea or nay with no other input allowed. This plan for a super-committee means that over 90 percent of us will have no representation in the decision-making process at all. And if you support the Tea Party, I predict your voice will be silenced completely on this issue. I don’t hear the outrage, and I don’t understand why. I never thought we would surrender this meekly. Write your representative and your senators whether they are selected for the Central Committee or not. Ask why you have been disenfranchised.

Where did congress get the power to create a committee to debate and decide for all our other representatives. How can this committee disallow input? How did so much power get concentrated into the hands of so few? What other U.S. President in history would have signed such a law? Where is the press in all of this? Why are the media not howling about the tyrrany that is being imposed?

I do not know for certain that the professional politicians of the two entrenched political parties are playing us like fish, but that explanation would fit the observable facts. The rhetoric is incredible. We are being pitted against one another, and as the class, race, and ideological warfare escalates, we are forgetting in the distraction of the moment who the real problem is. We are the problem. We elected these people who now rule us. If we do not get rid of them at the ballot box, we will have unpleasant alternatives.