Don't Take The Right to Vote Lightly

     Would you want work and live in a place in America where you paid your taxes, yet you have no elected official in Washington D.C. representing you? Would you let a Congress, that you had not been able to vote for, appoint the Electors to cast ballots in the Electoral College  for the President and Vice President of the United States? Would you like to just stand by and watch the elections pass you by year after year knowing that you have no actual say in Who is What and what Laws are Law?
     Well, this situation has been going on in America for more that 200 years. Yes, I said it has been going on for over 200 years in this country and still going on to this date. Your probably appalled at this idea, thinking, I thought that is what we fought for in the Revolutionary war for? Well, your right to think that, because that is what we did fight for. But today, yesterday, and tomorrow the residents in Washington D.C. are not/and will not be allowed to vote, but, they have to pay their taxes, and can serve in the military.
     According to the United States Constitution  in 1960 more than 760,000 people were living in the  Washington D.C.area, yet, now according to the 2009  census bureau only  599,657 people claim residency there. Probably moving out because they felt they have been shafted, not being allowed to vote. Some people might think that the reason the residents of Washington D.C. don't get to participate in a vote is because out of the population that lives there only 11.7% is over the age of  65  and we all know that that is the age that the government tends to listen to,  not enough to bother with perhaps?. Um who knows?      
      No, the reason that they are not permitted a vote is because Washington D.C. is not a state. They are considered a "unique city as the seat of the new government" (US Constitution 23rd amendment). Bummer right?  Maybe it's "time for change," because I surely wouldn't want to live in a place that I could not stand up and "Rock the Vote". Would you want to live there? So when you go to the poll's this year, remember you are the lucky ones, and you get to help choose who represents you, unlike the folks that live in Washington D.C. who don't even get the chance to.

More Money More Money More Money!

     This blog at thinkprogress.org pertains to the exorbitant amount of  money that is being spent on political ads during this election year, by the CoC (Chamber of Commerce). The blog is written by Ben Armbruster, it's a follow up to a preceding blog entitled "The Chambers Non-Disclosure". I like that they dove right into the problem, and that they didn't hold any thing back. This blog seems to be a forth right and good place to catch a real glimpse at the goings on in and around the political arena. As I maneuvered through the links within the blog itself they took me to anywhere from "The Washington Post" to Government sites themselves, showing me the ins and outs, and building my trust.
     I believe that the blog is well written, easy to understand, and deserves to be noticed by not only Joe, Sally, and I, but by Supreme Court of  The United States (SCOTUS) too. They made this blog easy for Joe the plumber to understand, and  I hope this blog doesn't fall on,  should I say a "blind eye", because as we all know justice is blind.  This blog is trying to truly wake up the general public and inform them of a wrong within our system, and I sure hope their alarm clock batteries don't die before SCOTUS gets up out of bed and rights the wrong they did when letting all this happen.