If you follow my other blog, Father Thinks He Knows Best, you have already seen my call for the New Year, Simplicity. I am evaluating every aspect of my life and am asking others to follow suit. We have become inundated with clutter. Whether it is in our homes, work, daily commute and within our own hearts, we have allowed complexity to overshadow this pure, simple thing called life. It stresses us. It makes us physically and mentally ill. It draws our attention from the people and events that we should all be focused on. LIFE.
The leap from our own, individual lives is not that far removed from our political lives and yet I do not see anyone, except myself now, make the connection. Politics is about electing people to make laws, enforce laws, interpret laws and governing. Laws have become complicated and the enforcement of them is even more difficult. We need to simplify. Our tax code is an albatross around the necks of citizens and corporations alike and yet we cannot get people in office to eliminate and simplify. One of the first items Congress, the courts and the White House should attack is the tax code. Eliminate the write offs and deductions completely. Leave the rate where it is until we eliminate our national debt and have a balanced budget. Cut waste, not the human safety net from government spending. This would be a starting point and would move us toward simplistic governing. There would be so many other items to correct after that, but we have to start somewhere.
Come on and join me in the year, we start to take back control of our lives. Just like in your personal life, I want ideas to be shared and find ways to implement them. Silence can no longer be the center of our lives. Simplify and become a better person and together we can simplify America on it's way to becoming a better country for all of us.
I had mentioned house cleaning because it reduces the hoarding and the clutter that we deal with on a daily basis. We carry stuff that is not relevant or useful. I guess the same can be said about politics. the problem here is that as complicated citizens we seek for heavy candidates, complicated candidates and so very often, shady candidates. Simplicity implies humdrum, a humdrum that is much needed to know where we are heading. Until we know what it is we actually need to function as a healthy society, its not until then that politics become simple and go back to basics. A little swiffer dusting does not hurt. Taxes, finances, labor, debt, technology, health care, etc. All these burdens need to be simplified. Are we capable of uncluttering and un-hoarding?
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