Cain, Bloomberg and others New Founding Fathers?

Is it time for The USA to find a new set of Founding Fathers?

The original set of Founding Fathers established a Republic based on a democracy that protected the entire citizenry against leadership that lived off the government. They feared that the heavy hand of the Lords and Earls of King George’s court could be replicated in this new nation if they didn’t take strong constitutional action to prevent it.

Escaping the yoke of royalty that lived off of income provided by the taxes imposed on the citizenry was a primary goal of most of the colonist. The same colonist that provided us those brave and insightful first Founding Fathers.

What was the profile of the first leaders who laid the foundation of our great nation that lasted nearly two hundred years? First there were no career politicians. There were none who were seeking positions of leadership that would set them financially for life. They were leaders from a wide variety of backgrounds, who sought to gather and do what was best for the citizenry as a whole. They had no special interest groups padding their pockets to buy their votes. They did not deem it necessary to give up their lives and businesses back home, because service to their country was temporary, not a whole new career. George Washington demonstrated that when he refused to serve more than two terms in office. He feared that any longer term of service might develop the greedy mentality of the Lords and Earls of King George’s court.

So how did it turn out? We don’t call them Lords and Earls. No, we call them representatives and Senators. We see them as career politicians, who live fully off of income provided by the taxes imposed on the citizenry. It looks as if, in the long run, it isn’t turning out so well. We are right back where we didn’t want to be in this new land of individual opportunity and freedom.

What now?
It is time for a new set of Founding Fathers. The Mayans believe the world calendar will reset in 2012 and a new era will begin. I think they are correct and we should reset our nation back to what the Founding Fathers intended.

How to do it?
The solution is ever so simple. We need only follow their example. In the 2012 election let us send leaders from our communities and businesses on temporary assignments in our governing bodies. Let us make sure there are no career politicians among them. Let us make sure there are none with ties to special interest groups that are padding their pockets. Let us make sure they all understand it is a temporary thing and we wish that they follow the lead of George Washington and serve no more than two terms.

  If we don’t pry the reins of government from the hands of career politicians and self-serving greedy beings looking for a lifetime of income, this great nation is set to fail in a catastrophic way.
It thrills me when I see some new Founding fathers emerging from the business communities. Look what Bloomberg has done in New York. Maybe it is time to give the men like Herbert Cain, Donald Trump, and a hundred others an opportunity to reset our great nation, so we are once again what the original Founding father’s intended.

  Let us have new Revolutionary War, but instead of bullets let us use ballots.