Is government out of your control?

Any representative form of government first requires that the
people surrender over to their representatives and public
servants, control over the people's power and resources.
The people are not allowed to spend their power and resources
except through representation.

Some politicians and public servants think that means they get
to do whatever they want, with the power and resources we
entrust to them. They think the people have no seat at the
table where they make decisions about the public interests.

Has the public lost control over public servants and their public service?

Do you think the government in under the people's control?
Do you think the government is of the people, by the people,
and for the people?

Stop for a minute to calculate a number that describes the
amount of control you feel you have over the government
and the spending of your power and your resources?
Do you feel 50% in control? 25%? 75%?

It's a trick question; there is no percentage. The answer is,
it is either/or.

There is in control and there is out of control; it is one or
it is the other. If your control over your power and resources
can be usurped anywhere in government, it can be usurped
anywhere else in government.

Do you tell your government what to do, or does the government
tell you what they intend to be done?

Who decides; who decides? Who sets the limits on government?
Whose prerogatives, the public or the public servants, include
telling public servants what they will do within their public service?

Who has the exclusive right, privilege, power and authority to
write the terms of public service, the servant or the master?

Do you tell government what decisions you will allow to it, or
does government tell you what it will allow you? And, whether
you like it or don't.

What are you going to do about it?

Some where, some time, some day, the people will have to
show up and take back control over power and resources that
belong fundamentally to the people.

At that time, on that day, and at that place, you have to show up.

There is no equivalent gesture.

Those who wait for the perfect circumstances before wading
into fight, will find only a perfect excuse to never wade in.

You must demand a seat at the table where decisions are made.
You have lost your rightful seat and it will not be returned to
you by executive decree, legislative relief, or judicial intervention.
It will be done by our insistence, or it will not be done at all.

The people have a right to meaningful participation in decision
making that affect their interests. But, you will have to fight
for it.

I would suggest, the time, the day and the place, is the public
forum at the next school board meeting. And the next, and
the next, and the next.