How to Make Your Voice Heard in Government

If you "google" the phrase "how to make senators and congressmen listen to the grassroots?" you will undoubtedly come up with a first page listing of all sorts of books written on the subject and some web sites that are impossible to even enter. Funny, isn't it? Oddly enough, one similarly worded search brought up in first place a Libertarian web site that purports to give some advice. Actually, a lot of what they say there is right on as far as how we've lost our rights over time. And believe me, we have lost rights. The old adage about boiling a frog is perfectly applicable to the situation U.S. citizens find themselves in today. Place a frog in boiling water and he'll jump out; place him in cold water and turn up the heat ever so slowly so that he doesn't realized that he's getting cooked until it's too late. That's the way Marx intended to enact his new Communist world and that's the way our own country's leaders have led us into the morass we're in today. Oddly enough, today, there's little difference between many legislators in either party. Except for a few dedicated men, our representatives long ago forgot about "we the people." Because we the people forgot we even had any power to begin with. Many of us have simply become frogs in the water.

How to influence people and spread the word about something is dependent on several factors, but behind it all is the need to find others interested in the same issue. Rule number One is this: in order to have any effect on any representative, people need to organize into one voice and build numbers. It's all about the NUMBERS. The better-organized people are on a single issue, the more wisely they can invest and allocate their time to use effective measures to bring about change. Take the Fairtax effort, for example. I have been personally working on this for a number of years and every month or so more jump on our bandwagon. We all have a yahoo group subscription to broadcast news and messages to everyone else in the group, and we have an actual non-profit organization working for us nationally in Houston.