We have 200 million enterprising American workers who go to work 40 to 60 hours per week and ultimately pay all the bills and 90% of the taxes (46 to be exact with sales taxes and property taxes making up 56% and 34% of the State, Local and Federal income taxes). Most if not all are in the dark about the economy and politics, other than what they hear on talk radio and TV by pundits who look and sound good but are only surface
talking heads paid to debate the debate and highlight the fake news so the pollsters can distort the candidates true popularity … because it truly is a popularity contest … more so, the higher you go on the pecking order. Right now, it takes a billionaire to qualify to run for President and millionaires are made by becoming a Senator or Congressman or woman.
When it gets to the gang of 545 (100 senators, 445 congressmen, 9 supreme court justices and 1 president) we tend to have a monarchy not a democracy since it takes billions of dollars to ever get in the race let alone win it. Then they are assured of wealth and longevity. We also have nepotism running
rampant after one family member makes it on the team. Second and third generation candidates have the name recognition to be in the hunt and can get the book deals and bully
pulpits to make a fully funded run at it … while the rest of us are merely spectators and supporters of one or the other of the two national parties.
Since, the rest of us have opinions on the so-called issues but really think the country has problems that need solved many of us would like to have a say in the long run not just complain in
the short run. And we all can read and write and understand arithmetic. So, this book has all the ingredients to inspire more qualified candidates then we have now. Maybe just maybe this would create valuable competition for making needed changes in how our country is run and solve the underlying problems of not having fair representation for 200 million enterprising workers.
