Paul McNair

Do We Matter at ALL? How much money does it take to get the same member of Congress on the phone who stood in our town and swore they’d always listen to us? Election season rolls around and they’ll shake every hand in the room. Then they get back to Washington, and the people who can write the biggest checks get a seat at the table. The rest of us get an email asking for another twenty bucks. We go to work. We pay our taxes. We live with every damn decision they make. And when we ask who benefits from those decisions, we get a speech about how much they care about working families. Save the speech. Who got the meeting? Who helped write the bill? And who’s going to pay for it? I believe in this Republic. I want to live by the Constitution, speak my mind, worship God, take care of my family, and be left the hell alone. There’s no price I’d take to sell out my country or my soul. I’d like to know how many people in Washington can look us in the eye and say the same thing. And yes, I’m asking the people I voted for, too. If you can find time to sit down with a donor, you can find time to stand in front of the people who sent you there and explain your vote. The American people are worn out. We’re tired of being moved around like pawns so people with money can make more of it. We’re tired of hearing “We the People” from politicians who seem to remember the rest of us when they need a vote, a donation, or somebody to foot the bill. Once you’ve counted our votes and collected our taxes, do our lives matter to you at all?