George Washington Warned You!
George Washington, in his farewell address, somehow knew what would happen to our country 200 years later. On the subject of American leaders running the nation with opposing parties, he says:
"They serve to organize factions ... to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority....

"Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party...."

Incredible. And here we are today with the Rs blaming the Ds, the Ds blaming the Rs, in fact, winning an election as something other than an "R" or a "D" is nearly impossible and those two "small but artful and enterprising" parties repeatedly attack one another and put their political party's interests ahead of the interests of we the people, the will of the nation.

Separate Elections from Parties!
Have you taken a close look at the voter registration form? The change of party affiliation form? The election ballot? Election law? The forms and laws may as well be advertisements for the R and D party. We the tax payers pay for primary elections, we pay for general elections, and these elections are to further the very existence of the party system. If the Republican party wants to nominate someone to represent their party, so be it, but on our state or local ballot, list the names, as only the names, not as an R or a D, don't spend my tax money to host an election to benefit the R party or the D party, host an election to benefit we the people. We the people have been lead to believe that the R and the D party always select the best two candidates to represent us and then we the people "elect" the person chosen for us by the party. I propose that state and federal election law needs to be changed so that everyone who can meet the minimum number of signatures to get on the ballot appears on the primary and the top X number of candidates, based on popular vote, move on to the general election, no mention of R or D beside a candidate's name on the ballot - force people to research the issues that an individual represents, not the party they serve. For national elections, again hold primaries based on popular vote and cut the country into "sections" so that time and fuel for travel is cut down for candidates - let them campaign in a "section" of the nation, and that section all holds an election on the same day, and once all 50 states have voted, the top 4 candidates move on to the general election. If all 4 individuals are members of the republican party, then the democratic party is not represented in the general election, too bad. If all 4 individuals are independents, so be it, the party system is broken and as George Washington warned, they serve only to promote the party, not the will of the people.

Frank Pallone is a working example of the broken party system. For the past 20 years, Frank has worked hard for the democratic party. Unfortunately, Frank has not worked to benefit the will of the people, the people who elected him to represent us. Just as Frank is a failure, the party system is a failure, and we the people must ensure that our tax money is not used to fund elections for parties, but rather used to fund elections for us.

James Madison knew too!
"If Congress can employ money indefinitely, for the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every state, county, and parish, and pay them out of the public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, the establishing in like manner schools throughout the union; they may assume the provision of the poor.... Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America."
And what do we have today? We had the Fed creating an indefinite, endless supply of money. We have nationalized health being forced down our throats, we have government taking the religious ceremony of marriage into their own hands, we have the Depart of Education setting the curriculum for our teachers nationwide, and providing the funding for those schools, we have Medicare and Medicaid and unemployment and federal minimum wages, all to protect the poor, and keep them poor - the exact warnings of 200 years ago - and here we are, having fallen to the levels that our founding fathers knew would destroy our country.

Frank Pallone is part of the problem. He supports big government, not the limited government that our founding fathers had intended. He supports programs that keep the poor poor and make the rich rich. We must take our country back from career politicians like Frank Pallone and restore our Constitution, and small limited government and ensure that we don't fall into the pitfalls that our founding fathers predicted.

Update April 04, 2008
If you believe anything the "news" tells you, and every once in a while, they do get something right, then a recent Poll: 81 Percent Think US on Wrong Track indicates it's time for us Americans, average working class people, to make a significant change in our leadership. It's no surprise that 81% of people think we're on the wrong track, for the past 20 years, career politician Frank Pallone, and other career politicians like him, have drifted so far away from the US Constitution, the document that they took an Oath to uphold, and lead our country into the housing crisis, the war in Iraq, the decreasing value of the dollar, the increasing costs of food and oil products, and many other problems. As I've indicated, I understand that I can't change all of these problems in a two year term, and I don't intend to make a career out of being an elected official, so I ask you, the 81% of Americans who think we're on the wrong track, to vote for me this June and November, and find other average working class people like me, possibly you yourself want to step up to the plate for the next election, and let us change the path our nation is on by eliminating career politicians, following the principles of the Constitution and elected average working class representatives, as the founding fathers intended. Politician is NOT a career and we should elect individuals, not parties, to represent us in office.