I sit here tonight preparing for the Saturday show and I am going over some of the topic Michelle and I agreed to talk about. She wants to cover the first 100 hours of the Democratic Congress which I agreed too. However, wouldn’t it be nice to tackle a subject that was more in tune with the realities of our days and something that we can actually affect?

 

I on the other hand wanted to discuss the nanny state and left this info for her in a voice mail. She called back but I didn’t get a chance to return her call today so I will tomorrow. I have no idea if we will have time for all these subjects or not, but I encourage any of you who want to either take my temperature as a few have mentioned lately I might be becoming a bit Liberal, which I assure you I am not, or check me for a brain at all as a few have indirectly accused me of being mildly retarded to please call in and make this a good show. I don’t care if you start off with AA is right or AA is an Ass, it all just leads to good radio for Michelle and Brian and the crew at Voice of Arizona.com.

 

I would also challenge a few of you to call in and give me your 30 second rendition of not what is wrong with America, but more importantly what can be done to fix it. I am a firm believer in the goodness of this country and of its citizens and I firmly believe that if given the room to do it, we can work most of our own problems out without legislation. The government is there to do that which the citizens can not collectively do for ourselves. Well, in my humble opinion the government has become the first rather than the last line of defense for the down trodden and the first rather then the last line of attack for those who feel they have been wronged somehow.

 

It is a shame that after all these years we the people have allowed so much of our constitution and freedom to be eroded. From both sides of the aisle we have seen this. Hunter talks of the erosion of the dollar, MIC speaks of the erosion of equality while Phaedrus speaks of the erosion of all our rights to some degree or another and June points fingers all at the Republican party while forgetting that her party too has taken its fair share of rights, from the people collectively like the 2nd amendment which is a shell of its former self as it is whittled away and Feingold along with McCain took from us our voice close to election day while doing virtually nothing to stop the big money they so loudly accused of causing corruption.

 

We all bitch, I included. But rarely do we offer a plan of our own to fix the problem. Sure, build a fence is a flippant response to boarder issues when the real problem is proximity itself and a grotesque Mexican economy that drives illegals into the waiting arms of American employers more worried about the bottom line that the overall cost of having those illegals take up space in our schools, hospitals and one day our elderly homes.  No they are not all bad people but if I have heard it once I have heard it a million times on this site from liberals, “We are a nation of laws Damn it”, and those laws apply to the people eat the top just as they do to us. I agree, but they also apply to the least among us as they do us other wise you lose your argument too.

 

So let’s try to identify a problem this week that we can start the process of solving, not in one show but over months of working together as a community. We have the power to reason, the power to compromise and the power to then take that idea to the powers that be and present it in an organized fashion. Not a protest where we claim we want change then leave the details to the government; they rarely give us all what we want, so let’s give them what we want.

 

This is my challenge to all of you here at VofA.  Imagine if June, MIC, Phaedrus, Indie AzModerate, Hunter, Tom, Average American and a host of other writers putting their collective talents to work and coming up with a plan to solve anything in America or even just here in Arizona. We could move things. Would we all get what we want, No, of course not, but we might get something we can all live with knowing that all our major concerns were addressed.

 

You pick the problem to solve, immigration, taxes, the roads, I don’t care what it is. But I promise you this, when the State or Feds see people working together to change the country even a little they might just wake up to the fact that we can all live and work together while moving towards a collective good that involves both freedom and security, assistance for the poor and protection for the middle class, involvement from the rich and new ideas from the down trodden. We all have a voice here at least at VofA, let’s stop bitching about stuff and start fixing it ourselves.

 

But if you just want to fight on the radio, I can do that too.

 

But what would I know; I’m just an Average American…