Cyndi's Two Cents

We the people are embarrassed by lawmakers behavior

Commentary.

A brief summer storm early last week brought seven tenths of an inch of rain and high winds to our farm. We lost some large tree limbs in the yard and pastures but after three weeks of lying in dry soil, my zinnia and okra seed germinated and is now growing.  The earth around us is relieved, but still thirsty.

Sometimes we have to suffer through the storms to reap the harvest.  I certainly hope that’s the case with the violent atmospheric disturbance on Capitol Hill.  The childlike behavior in our nation’s capital in recent weeks is absolutely embarrassing and appalling.  If I had acted like that as a child, you can bet your bottom dollar that my bottom would have paddled.

I have friends and co-workers who are staunch Republicans.  I have friends and co-workers who are staunch Democrats.  I have friends and co-workers who are staunch Libertarians.  We might not agree on all policy and politics but we do all agree that the aforementioned political grandstanding and disrespectful behavior is egregious and we as an American people should not tolerate it.

Children would be punished if they behaved the way our United States House of Representatives behaved.  If people in a workplace behaved that way they would lose their jobs.  The combative, disrespectful and completely inappropriate conduct by men and women we elected makes me a little sad, a little mad and a little sick at my stomach.

July 4, 2016 is the 240th anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.  It is a celebration of the birth of the United States of America as an independent nation.  Communities large and small across this nation will come together to observe the holiday.

We are drawn together because it was on this day a document penned by a committee of 5 and signed by 56 members of the Continental Congress declared:

WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. . .

Perhaps every American citizen should take a few minutes to remember and appreciate these words.

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