What would it be like to have a government we love? A government that was within budget? One where we liked it’s accomplishments, its plans, the way it conducted itself, its transparency and its accountability?
In America, it’s within our reach. We, the people, have the ultimate power. We can direct our representatives to do our bidding. If we want, we can even direct our state governments representatives to change the constitution. All we need is the ability to collaborate effectively.
Currently, to what should we hold our representatives accountable? Not knowing what we collectively want, we, too, can only guess. And then how do we hold them accountable? Only by voting. How can we judge their progress on goals when congress is in gridlock? If a representative wants to lead, to ask us about a new solution, how can they reach us? If a representative wants to report on the issues we care about, how can they know which those are?
Soon, PeopleCount.org will provide the answers. We’ll be able to begin stating our opinions and learning where we collectively stand. Soon, we’ll be able to refine what we want and come together. The silent majority need no longer be silent.
We’re planning on building all this and more. With your participation, we’ll succeed.
Our government needs to be smaller….MUCH smaller. It needs to be a place where people do not go there to become wealthy, but to serve. The people that are considered our “leaders” do not lead at all, they are there to look for ways to benefit financially..period. No one in that circle is ever held accountable for anything they do. Just the recent scandals are evidence of that. Benghazi, IRS, NSA these scandals will simply go away and no one will ever happen to anyone involved. I hate to see what is happening to America.
I’d like to be able to vote on how much smaller I’d like different areas of government to be. If we have some rough agreement we could begin to hold politicians accountable for that. What percent of us want government to be smaller, want the budget to be balanced, want to help balance it with higher taxes, on everyone, on the rich, on business profit.
Do you see a way of shrinking the budget without knowing what we all want?
I’m not sure what good it would do to ask people if what happened in Benghazi or with the IRS are scandals… No one wanted what happened in Benghazi to happen, and we seem to be in agreement that the IRS was wrong. Asking people about whether the NSA should be looking at anonymized data about phone calls would be interesting.
My real question- how do we get more people voting on PeopleCount.org so that we can start holding government accountable and making the changes we want?