You are considering running as an Independent for the United States Congress. Yet you fear you're not qualified. Perhaps someone has already told you you're not.
You must remember this:
Your lack of qualification for the United States Congress is your qualification.
For instance, when each new federal budget is due on October 1st, you do not need to be qualified in the art of delaying its passage as much as seven months into the coming fiscal year.
You must never allow yourself to be qualified in the skill of taking a $40 trillion national debt and making it $50 trillion, or in taking the annual interest we pay on the national credit card — which now, for the first time in American history, has hit $1 trillion — and making it $1.5 trillion.
Above all — you must never allow yourself to become qualified in developing and displaying the pathological partisan hatred that our current incumbents show for one another.
You are completely qualified to cast one of the simple-majority votes, on the parliamentary procedure to obliterate the filibuster, in your very first week in office — allowing fresh ideas to pass into law.
You are qualified to work on spending plans to safely balance the federal budget in four years.
You are fully capable of showing kindness and respect to your colleagues, rather than the inexplicable hatred the two parties pour out on each other almost daily.
As you prepare to make the sacrifices necessary to produce dramatic historic change, you will confront voices telling you of the challenges ahead.
Remember this old, but very true saying:
The only thing needed for evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.
You are considering running as an Independent for the United States Congress. Yet you fear you're not qualified. Perhaps someone has already told you you're not.
You must remember this:
Your lack of qualification for the United States Congress is your qualification.
For instance, when each new federal budget is due on October 1st, you do not need to be qualified in the art of delaying its passage as much as seven months into the coming fiscal year.
You must never allow yourself to be qualified in the skill of taking a $40 trillion national debt and making it $50 trillion, or in taking the annual interest we pay on the national credit card — which now, for the first time in American history, has hit $1 trillion — and making it $1.5 trillion.
Above all — you must never allow yourself to become qualified in developing and displaying the pathological partisan hatred that our current incumbents show for one another.
You are completely qualified to cast one of the simple-majority votes, on the parliamentary procedure to obliterate the filibuster, in your very first week in office — allowing fresh ideas to pass into law.
You are qualified to work on spending plans to safely balance the federal budget in four years.
You are fully capable of showing kindness and respect to your colleagues, rather than the inexplicable hatred the two parties pour out on each other almost daily.
As you prepare to make the sacrifices necessary to produce dramatic historic change, you will confront voices telling you of the challenges ahead.
Remember this old, but very true saying:
The only thing needed for evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.