Actor Kevin Sorbo Calls upon Americans to Vote against Congress
Monday, August 8th, 2011
Actor Kevin Sorbo has called upon fans and friends alike to vote against incumbents in the next Congressional election (fall 2012). Echoing the sentiments of a growing number of American citizens who are disgusted with the antics of the Democratic and Republican parties, Sorbo wrote on his Facebook page:
. We get the govt. we deserve because we put these egotistical clowns in office. Next election, just vote for the first time runners. Lets clean house!! Term limits!!!!
Many Americans have been complaining that Republican and Democratic members of Congress — in both houses — serve the interests of their political parties more than the interests of their constituents. The 2011 federal budget crisis, according to some pundits, may even have been engineered by Republican politicians as a gambit to discredit President Barack Obama. Armchair analysts and experts alike, however, suggest that voters may well remember who was in office during the turbulent negotiations and simply vote the incumbents out.
Voting against incumbents would reduce the number of career politicians who focus on grandstanding for re-election. It would also make it easier to hold political parties accountable for their self-serving agendas. Although the American 2-party system has been touted as superior to many multi-party systems around the world, the perpetual deadlock between political parties over key legislation fosters ongoing frustration among American voters.
Among the issues that Congress has failed to deal with which hurt the American economy and consumers are: the status of the children of illegal immigrants who attend college but cannot obtain decent tax-paying jobs for lack of proper documentation; the billions of dollars in potential tax revenues that are NOT being collected from illegal aliens who would gladly pay taxes in exchange for the privilege and remaining in the United States to perform jobs that the currently estimated 14 million out-of-work American citizens are unwilling to take on; eliminating the $100 billion+ junk debt industry that converts tax writeoffs by major credit card companies and retailers into bogus debt that is used to blackmail an estimated 2-5 million Americans into paying fake collection companies because of false debts on their credit records.
The false debt scandal extends to companies like TransUnion, Equifax, and Experian — the credit bureaus whose reports and scoring systems prevent millions of Americans from borrowing money for homes, cars, and other big ticket expenses. The credit bureaus accept any allegations of debt from so-called “junk debt collectors” regardless of the fact that these companies have no documentation of any transactions or real billings. Recent court decisions in New Jersey, New York, and other states have acknowledged that the junk debt industry has manufactured false credit reports for specious reasons.
Kevin Sorbo and other celebrities may not endorse all these causes where consumers have been hurt, but their outbursts reflect the growing frustration that Americans feel with their elected representatives. The representatives in both the House and Senate increasingly eschew their responsibility to protect the interests of American citizens in order to advance the interests and causes of their political parties and large campaign contributors.