12 min
Without the People, the Servants Rule: How to Reclaim Liberty and Fix Our Politics Liberty Enforcement Podcast
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- Politics
The people are largely absent from our political process, not because we're excluded but because we don't show up. When we don't show up, the pet causes of each politician automatically win, and we the people lose because hundreds of millions of our tax dollars are squandered away, entirely wasted and set on fire for things we'd never want to see done.
When the county board actually gets into discussing their actual agenda most people are usually gone from the meeting. So often there ends up being one or two people in the audience. And here we are, with all of the entire agenda being discussed, with each one of these items might be $5mil to $30mil to $50 million worth of spending, with up to twenty or more agenda items in some cases. So what we end up with is a dynamic where they rubber stamp all this stuff with absolutely no one paying attention, no questions being asked, because there's no one in the audience.
If you look at any, at any agenda it's the same story over, and over, and over again. Twenty or more items, and they're saying $10 million to buy this house, $20 million to this agency, a pay raise to this, this agency had, you know, they make all of these decisions. Most of them having to do to with spending money, with zero questioning from the audience because there is no audience. So let me, let's backtrack on this process. What we now have is we have the staff who have written the agenda that they're voting on within this meeting to basically raise their own paychecks in some cases, right? Like sometimes it's literally pay raises we're talking about.
The people are largely absent from our political process, not because we're excluded but because we don't show up. When we don't show up, the pet causes of each politician automatically win, and we the people lose because hundreds of millions of our tax dollars are squandered away, entirely wasted and set on fire for things we'd never want to see done.
When the county board actually gets into discussing their actual agenda most people are usually gone from the meeting. So often there ends up being one or two people in the audience. And here we are, with all of the entire agenda being discussed, with each one of these items might be $5mil to $30mil to $50 million worth of spending, with up to twenty or more agenda items in some cases. So what we end up with is a dynamic where they rubber stamp all this stuff with absolutely no one paying attention, no questions being asked, because there's no one in the audience.
If you look at any, at any agenda it's the same story over, and over, and over again. Twenty or more items, and they're saying $10 million to buy this house, $20 million to this agency, a pay raise to this, this agency had, you know, they make all of these decisions. Most of them having to do to with spending money, with zero questioning from the audience because there is no audience. So let me, let's backtrack on this process. What we now have is we have the staff who have written the agenda that they're voting on within this meeting to basically raise their own paychecks in some cases, right? Like sometimes it's literally pay raises we're talking about.
12 min