I'm only one person. What good can I do?

I’m just one person, what good can I do? Have you ever heard those words expressed? Have you ever spoken them yourself?

A couple of years ago the Congress, President and the news media seemed hell bent on passing legislation, The Kennedy-McCain Immigration bill. When it seemed as if it would be passed and signed by then President Bush, something happened and it fell by the wayside.

Just recently the Congress passed and the President signed a bill that gave bonuses to people who agreed to come to work for a division of their company, for $1.00 a year, that had lost so much money that it was about to make the whole corporation fail. This was a done deal long before the common people found out about it.

Once the people found out about it, all hell broke loose. All of the sudden the very people (Congress, President and the Treasury Department) who made the bonuses happen, wanted to vilify the people they gave them to.

How was all of this possible? It happened because all of the people who normally would say, "I’m just one person, what good can I do?" stood up and said something.

There is one thing the politicians in Washington and at the State level want, POWER. There is one thing that they fear, UNITED CITIZENS. Show them an angry mob of voters and they will turn tail and run like a frightened deer (not vote for bill) or they will roll over and play dead like a scared opossum, (I didn’t have anything to do with it).

Most people hide behind the "I’m just one person, what good can I do?" because it allows them to bitch and complain when things don’t go the way that they want them to go.

It is my opinion that the Founding Fathers gave a voice to the common citizen not as an option to speak up but as a civic duty. That civic duty begins with registering to vote and then voting your convictions, not your party when the time comes.

It also extends to voicing your concerns and opinions when issues are raised before the governing bodies. That doesn’t mean writing or calling about the issue and ranting away. The louder and harsher your argument becomes, the more chances are that you are loosing debate. The contacts can be short and to the point and still be persuasive.

It only takes a few clicks of the mouse to be able to send your Congressman or Senator an email stressing your concern. Who the representatives are and how to contact them is available at usa.gov.

It may be true that you are only one voice. However, if you write and then encourage two other people to write that makes three. If those two both encourage two people to write that makes seven. If you do the math, you see what a great number of people you will have speaking their minds.

Glenn Beck recently referred to those people as angry town fork chasing Frankenstein with pitchforks and torches. It is that imagery that will rein in the politicians and give the power back to the people where it belongs.

It is good that we share with each other on our blogs or while sharing a beer. It will get more done if we email the politicians too.