Truly, who are they? As in, ‘they’ will never elect a woman. ‘They‘ will never give you a chance.

Why have We The People been led down this path of believing that citizen government is dead?  Why have we willingly given over our lives and money to people who make a career out of looting the treasury?  Why do we refuse to stand up?

I am truly wondering this week, as I watch the debacle which is the ‘protesting’ going on in our cities.  If We The People do not like our corporate citizens, like Bank of America, then why do we continue supporting them with our dollars?  Dollars are like votes.  They have power, when they band together.  If you despise BofA’s new fees to use debit cards, move your accounts.  Refinance your loan.  Speak UP!  Don’t just bitch about it and expect things to change.

What really incensed me this year was the insanity in Raleigh to de-fund the Governor’s School program.  One of the more brilliant ideas of Terry Sanford, Governor’s School has enriched thousands of young minds within our great state over the past few decades.  I myself was a Governor’s School attendee in 1992.  It changed my life.  Had it not been provided by the state, my parents could not have afforded to send me.  However, the state supporting me helped keep me HERE.   We need brain power more than ever-to create jobs and start companies and change the world-and we need our North Carolina minds to enrich North Carolina.  If we stifle our youth and do not support those that will stretch all of us, they will leave.  The money for Governor’s School is a pittance-$750,000-and I would bet you that there is a redundancy in the current spending that could have been eliminated to save the program.

Or heck-couldn’t you use the Education Lottery money to pay for it?  Oh no, that’s right.  NOT ONE CENT from the ‘Education Lottery’ has gone to public education.  The state was sold a bill of goods in the form of the lottery….a regressive tax that is paying for what-helicopters?

Folks, we need a clear head and we need a fresh eye.  I will go to Raleigh and roll up my sleeves.  My business will manage without me for a while.  And then I will come home, having known that I gave up my corner for a while in order to do what I can for all citizens.

Can I get an Amen?

Our current precious Governor loves side-stepping the issues and questions regarding the right to bear arms.

I’ll keep this short, sweet and simple.  We have the right to bear arms, it’s one of the essential tenets in our country.  As Governor, your rights will be protected.  I’m a Lifetime Endowment member of the NRA and proud of it.

Oh-and Bessie Mae will be accompanying me to Raleigh, never fear.

Oh yes, I carry.

Is YOUR Jaw on the Floor Yet?

You have GOT to be kidding me.

Governor Bev Perdue said yesterday “I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover.”

HELLO?  This should be sparking a massive outrage!  Bev wants the politicians-who for decades have built the house of cards that has been crashing-to be protected?  To have no accountability to voters?  WHAT??

Our society has issues with personal responsibility and accountability.  I see it on so many levels.  And now we have our ELECTED LEADER saying this?

The problem we are facing with our oversized, nanny-state government, is that career politicians are too focused on protecting themselves at the expense of the electorate.  It’s time to clear the career politicians out of office and get a fresh perspective in place!  Bring in accountants and businesspeople who know how to operate on a budget and who know how to think on their feet!

Surely I’m not the last living human being whose parents drilled this into their heads…but when is the last time you heard a politician truthfully get down and dirty about NOT SPENDING? I wasn’t raised with a silver spoon in my mouth.  I grew up re-using Solo cups.  I still re-use Solo cups in my house.  If I don’t have it, I don’t spend it.

When I was younger and new to the independent contractor world, I failed to pay my estimated taxes…so I wound up with a $19,000 bill from the IRS.  Which I paid back on a payment plan…an error I haven’t repeated.  So why is it that our elected officials just keep digging a hole deeper and deeper into debt-debt they have no intention of ever erasing?

Here come the platform planks.

#1.  If North Carolina doesn’t have it, we will NOT spend it.  Does this mean cuts?  Probably.  I know it’s hard to swallow in an era that values entitlement spending….but there are times when belts must be tightened.  We have redundancies in our spending-those can be eliminated.  We have projects that should be re-bid to reflect the current economy-which should result in savings.  We have very hard decisions to make.  However, if we do not collectively stop the spending, we will collectively go bankrupt.  Buck up, people.  Pencil will go to paper and we will emerge from this recession stronger than ever.  Don’t say that it’s ‘unfair’ because there will be reviews across the board.  It’s not going to be easy and feelings will be hurt.  It’s time to save this great state. 

Are you with me?

Why does it take THIS to be elected?

Call me confused, call me naive, call me ignorant.  But for the life of me, I can’t figure out why politics became the playground of the super-wealthy or just super-connected-to-the-super-wealthy.  Oh, I know the *why*-the PACs, the lobbyists, the complete and utter lack of accountability to the citizenry.  However, why did WE, the voters, allow this to happen?  Why do we allow the mainstream media to tell us what we will think, what we will do, who we shall believe?  What happened to the free-thinking American mind?  Why did the ‘political correctness’ movement effectively ruin our ability to have coherent discussions?

Why do we accept as fact that a candidate must be connected to money to make something happen?  I would love to take over Raleigh while spending nary a penny, but perhaps that is too idealistic.  Keep an eye out for a DONATE button.  I will track every single penny received and spent, and would love to see a true grassroots campaign succeed without spending ANY.  In that blessed event, any campaign money received will find a home in a non-profit environment.

In the meantime, if you too believe that the great state of North Carolina should be returned to the hands of its citizens and that the government should serve the people, NOT the people serving the government….spread the word.  I want to hear from every single one of the 100 counties that make up this state.  Many of you have never had a voice in Raleigh.  It’s time.

It’s fairly simple. I am a mama. An entrepreneur. A taxpayer. A softball mom. A public school supporter. An elder in my church. And I can’t shake the feeling that we-you and I-have given it away. What “it”? Our childrens’ future.

Public schools are faltering. Jobs are too scarce, true job training is unpopular, government is too big and too busy spending money we don’t have. We have mortgaged again and again an underwater system.

So I’m not going to complain. I am willing to go to Raleigh, pencil in hand, with mind and ears open, to try and fix it. Career politicians have become an oligarchy…they aren’t willing to fix this. I am.

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