Muscatine

Opie - you are NOT a moron. Several of us said that the original post made no sense, and as you pointed out is not coherent. You are also correct that WE are mocked by another poster who often makes no sense and then bdi chimes in and still left me wondering - wtf? I just shake my head. Fortunately, the loonies are here on this board and not in some position of authority although they seem to echo the thoughts of some who are in office.

Okay, let me tell you what I find confusing about the original post.  (and again, I am a moron)

Maybe its about finding someone who is willing to represent us the individual person who lives and works right here in the good old USA

Everyone who serves in Congress and state legislatures already lives and works in the USA.  You have to be an American citizen to be in Congress so that statement is redundant.

I think it means someone who would represent those of who live in the USA.   As opposed to representing the interests of people who live in other countries.

Maybe big business should cause the root of all evil to go away and bring jobs back to the USA.

My understanding is the “root of all evil” is money.  He wants the corps to cause all the money to go away?  That isn’t very intellectual.

I believe the root of all evil is "the love of money".   I interpret this to mean that corporations could consider things other than accumulating money.

He wants the corps to bring back jobs to theUSA (which would be nice) but then he wants to tax them heavily and have them pay a flat tax on top of that.  Corps are in business to make money.  How are they suppose to pay more taxes, a flat tax, pay to bring jobs home and turn a profit?  They will go broke and be out of business and all the employees will be out of work.  How does that help anything?  Now unemployment will only increase and welfare rolls will skyrocket.  Not to intelligent of an idea there.

Maybe we should vote out any politician that doesn't produce. 

In theory that would be great, but I live in the real world (unlike the original poster).  We vote them out and who do we replace them with?  No one in their right mind is going to take a job like that.  And the ones who do want the job are the ones who want to get rich and be a part of the problem.  They aren’t there for the betterment of the country only for their own self promotion.  The only solution to that is not to have representatives, or not to pay them.  Public service should be public service and not a get rich quick scheme.

We, in the real world can vote those out who don't produce in the manner we wish.   Contrary to what you say there are those who try their damnedest to do what is right and aren't getting rich at it.   All too often we reward them by getting angry at the whole government and lump them all together and blindly "vote them all out".   To our detriment.

This poster’s ideas are great if we are living in utopia or never-neverland.  But we live in reality and I think the poster should join us there.  A reality with intelligent thoughts and ideas.

I could be wrong about all of this after all I am a moron.

We have one member of the House of Representatives.   Have we all studied his voting record, source of campaign contributions, and his expenditures well enough to make an intelligent choice when it's time to vote?