No, sorry to get your hopes up with that title. I'd like to use this article to point out that we are, in fact, a representative republic, and NOT a democracy -- at least we're not supposed to be.

The article (and others) favorably mention a poll that shows 61% of the people in the state want the North Carolina Legislature to continue to take money from individuals and give them to big businesses (so-called "economic incentives"). Of course, the poll was done by "North Carolina Economic Developers Association," so the results are certainly very questionable.

This is where statesmen should step in. Real statesmen, elected officials who are true to their job and understand how a representative republic is supposed to work, would reply with statements about how it is not the job of government to steal from one person to give to companies.

One opponent of the measures brought up the fact that he employs several people and pays taxes, but he doesn't get $4 million for "incentives" -- a very valid point. One problem with incentives is that the government gets to decide which companies they support and which ones they do not. That is NOT a free market.

However, some will respond, "the majority of the people want it, so we're going to do it." That is just plain wrong. I'll go ahead and use Rush Limbaugh's example that I heard many years ago -- if Democracy truly is just the majority decision, if there's 4 men and 1 woman in a room and 3 men want to rape the woman, that's okay, because it was a majority decision.

What we need today to fix this country are statesmen -- people who will do the right thing, no matter which way the wind is blowing. We need people who will stand up and tell people that they support the Constitution, no matter what polls say, no matter what the "majority" say, and no matter what anyone else says.

Anyone know any statesmen we can elect so we can have our country back?

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