“I ain’t ready to let them off the hook. I demand they prioritize. How about you?”
I don’t want to sound like I’m discouraging you, but how do you plan on demanding anything? I vote for the most fiscally conservative candidates that I can vote for.
Congress is not going to make judgments on cutting programs - they ARE willing to discuss the relative merits of new spending programs, but collectively, never about cutting.
This is a GOP and a Democrat trait.
Short of tarring-and-feathering (which I am NOT against) - nothing will be effective.
I’m at a loss - how do you “demand” anything from a Congress that is never punished (pushed out of office in large enough numbers) for doing the wrong thing?
It won’t happen until the checks stop - and then the priority will only be to get the checks going again.
First of all, be on a first-name basis with your congresscritter and make sure he knows how you think. Make yourself into a political power player. Blog. Go to city council meetings. Write letters to the editor. If your local rag ain’t doing right, call them on it. Work to elect people who believe as you do.
Call in on talk radio. Make cogent, sound arguments that give you credibility, just like you do here on FR. Anything you do that reduces the power of government at any level is a good thing.
There is no other way. It called politics.