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Slippery slope getting slicker

Hernando Today

Published: November 3, 2009

If you read this paper or listen to the news reports about the direction the Obama administration and its cohorts in Congress are taking this country, and if it doesn't raise the hairs on the back of your neck, then you must have your head stuck in a hole.

We are on a slippery slope and more soap is being used every day. We have congressmen and senators in the pockets of special interest groups designing legislation to enhance their agendas paid for by borrowed money that we will be indebting this country for generations.

We have a president who has a new plan for everything regardless of what it will indenture us. He was right on the money when in his speeches and rhetoric about "we are the party of change." What has changed is we are closer to being a socialist republic than a democracy than ever before.

We are censoring news outlets like Fox News because they dare to point out these discrepancies. Whether you agree or disagree with the compensation corporations pay their executives, that is free enterprise. That is what their boards of directors and stockholders should regulate, not the government.

How much of a jump is it until they tell you what you should earn? Is this the change we were promised? Wake up people, this is our way of life changing before our eyes. Are we going to leave are heads stuck in a hole and ignore the erosion of our rights and freedoms?

It's still not too late. There are ways we can stop this, but it's going to take all of us to give a damn. A good step in the right direction would be "real term limits" not just elections to put the same special-interest bought politician back in office every two or four years. This one change alone would at least keep fresh faces and ideas in the mix.

Thomas Jefferson once said "Government big enough to give you everything you want is powerful enough to take it all away." Let's keep that in mind on Election Day. Let's make our voices heard.

Public outcry is one voice Washington is afraid of. If we talk or holler maybe, just maybe, someone will hear us.

James T. Woods

Brooksville

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