And so it all began...

For weeks now, I have been at a loss and not known what to do to try and make a difference in the corruption, the out of control spending, the indoctrination of our youth, the destruction of our Constitution, etc... that the current administration has unleashed on our Country. I had a something of a mini breakdown last Thursday. I cried most of the day. I cried out of frustration at being unable to make people I know and love understand that our Country as we know and love it is being destroyed. I cried out of fear of what my children and my nieces/nephews will have to endure in their lives due to the complacent attitudes of citizens sitting back and waiting for someone else to pick the ball up and run with it. I cried because I am so filled with anger, I don't know where to put it. I cried out of the fear of becoming so consumed with this rage I am feeling that I would not be able to control my actions and then the liberal name calling of "American Patriots" trying to make their voices be heard would be proven true to some extent. Well, I could no longer take it. I had to turn the television off. I had to turn the computer off too. I could not handle one more bit of information or news.

I loaded up my 3 dogs and headed up into the Blue Ridge Mountains. I needed to go far away from everyone and everything that has overloaded my senses for far too long now. I was there with just my 3 dogs (my best friends), myself and God. I found a quiet yet productive peace that afternoon. After weeks and weeks of racking my brain of how I could make a difference.

As I awoke Friday morning, I strangely felt "better". As always, my first thought of the day was, what can I do to make a difference. In a flash, my mind was flooded with an idea. The Congress and Senate are now cancelling their "Town Hall" meetings all over the country. They don't want to conduct them because simply stated, they have an agenda they are trying to advance and quite frankly, we the "American Citizens" are not part of that agenda. Well, that is just unacceptable and I for one will not stand for it. I have questions regarding Health Care, Cap and Trade, Education, Afghanistan, the non-transparency of legislation being voted on and other things as well as I am sure most of you do also. If they don't want to bring the meetings to us, then whats to stop us from taking the meeting to them? Now as Americans, we have the right to sit in on any session being held in Congress. What I would like to do is get as many people as I can to go to Washington DC during a day when Congress, the House and Senate are in session. Now there is no way we could all possibly just invade their sessions. There is nothing to stop us from sending every single Senator and Congressional/House Representative (as well as every media outlet out there) an invitation to meet us, "The American Public" whom they work for so we may ask our questions. It is their duty to provide us with answers. This would need to be done in a very respectful way though. We would need to conduct ourselves as mature adults with respect to them and respect to the process. Frank Lundtz summed it up wonderfully when he advised us it was not what we had to say but it was "the way we said it". The problems our nation is facing today are no long "party blamable". The questions we ask should be ones that affect us as "Americans", not as "Republicans, Conservatives, Democrats, Independents, Libertarians, etc...

If you had the opportunity to participate in such an event and could ask them a direct question, what would that question be? Please post any questions you would like to have answered under comments. Remember, it takes a "village"!