I figure rant about this since it's on my mind.

The government "of the people, by the people, and for the people" isn't working. Why? Well, I personally think they are a bunch of high class liars that have no clue about what is going on in the real world. Chances are that a few still know cause they try to have at least one leg in their past while making sure the other leg if not the foot is in Uncle Sam's door, but I don't think that's a huge number.

My best example I can give of the people elected to run the government but don't have a god damn clue how is the school board I had to deal with in Junior year. Yes, that isn't really a form of government, but you'll get the idea in a bit. The school board is a number of people elected or appointed by those that believe they are qualified to run the schools. The one I had to deal with was semi-stupid. The best thing they have ever done is design a core curriculum. It was designed so that if you, as a student of the system, had to change schools due to zoning changes or whatnot, you would not be a page or seventy behind whichever school you ended up transferring to. In Algebra II, there was a required exit exam where if you don't pass you don't get the grade and have to take the course over again. Thing is, upon the arrival of the exam, the board handed a practice test consisting of items and formulas not on or found on the cre curriculum. On my test, there was stuff from Trig for an Algebra II class. Fucked up, huh? Since then, I've always believed the school should be represented as follows:

People elected or appointed to the offices or positions that they are suppose to represent should be from the area they are trying to fix be it job or region in general.

I always thought untill just awhile ago that the school board was made up of teachers that knew about the schools and the problems they have been dealing with. It turns out that really isn't the case. Not only are they not teachers, most of whom I believe are parents of kids that go to school, but they have probibly never set foot in the schools they are trying to fix.

The same goes for the local government here. The local house had to have a meeting and vote on if Halloween was to be on Saturday or Sunday cause it fell on a sabith and was known as the holiday of the dead. If anything, Halloween has lost all the celtic traditions that it once had and associated with and has become a big party! The people in the house live comfortible. They have security and live in the picture perfect house of what America is said to be.

There's the reason I'm convinced the government doesn't work. It is run not by the people as the founding fathers wanted it but by those that are members of the rich and powerful. The rich and powerful, no matter how much they think about us middle class and lower class folk, do not fully understand what is going on. They don't know what is going on in the areas that they are trying to fix, and chances are what they do know about the areas they are trying to fix they get from the news and informate that know nothing about actually living there. If you want to fix the gettos, ask everyone in the gettos what they want fixed the most! They live there! They know what's really going on outside of all the news cameras saying some black kid got shot crossing the steet because of rival gangs causing the idiot government to put more cops there. Think about it. When was the last time your elected Senator that is sitting in the Senate right now last came to your state and looked around and took everything in? When was the last time your Congressmen set foot in his childhood home for a month to see how much the neighborhood has changed. The bills that they pass and the laws that they make are so one sided. These men and women that are elected to represent us as a people are not from our walk of life. They do not know how hard the working man works or what exactly kids are doing on the streets or how bad some of these schools are or even how to balance a budget.

I'll end this rant with this thought. Who would be able to balance the national/local budget fastest: A bunch of rich I-can-buy-anything-I-want-any-damn-time-I-want-to politition or a group of women that are able to balance a check book in under a minute flat who have to deal with a budget every day? I'm going for the one that has to live with a daily budget. Why? They know where money should be spent and where it shouldn't be spent without going overbudget causing a bigger debt.

GOVERNMENT REFORM NOW!