If You Could Change Just One Thing.....

The one thing I think would solve most, if not all, of these problems would be for truth to be a requirement. Without lies or hidden agendas, this could go back to being a great country instead of being on its way to destruction.

I am not from America, but I am from Indonesia. I hope I can also participate in this discussion because I think the topic is interesting. If I can change one thing in my government, I would change the people I believe that all the wrongness and all of the violation of the regulations are coming from the people in the government of my country. They don't care about the people, all they care about was the power that they can use to make them even more powerful and wealthy. I think I should change all people at the government with some idealist so that they can really rule this country with the righteousness.

It would be hard to choose just one thing, but making "pork" or special interest laws that cost money, illegal, would be a good first step. It's not that hard to recognize them. No riders should be allowed. If a bill can't stand on its own and be voted on in Congress and signed by the President as something worthwhile, it shouldn't be allowed at all. That would stop a lot of money grubbing in politics, stop some of the debt build up and make some politicians honest.

Whether anyone likes this or not, I believe we need to put God back into our country. I think we sometimes forget how this country came about. If you take prayer out of the schools, the bible out of our courthouses, "In God We Trust" off of our coins and currency, and are intolerant to others religious beliefs, we have no country. If there are those who don't believe in God, they are still welcome, but they chose to come to our country knowing that God was the center of our government. If you ask me what has happened to our schools, I would say it was because they can no longer have prayer and that they don't lead the students in the Pledge of Allegiance. As a substitute teacher several years ago, when the Pledge of Allegiance was said, most of the kids didn't have their hands on their hearts or repeat the pledge. In fact, some of them would be visiting with their friends during the pledge. Take a look at who is going to be our leaders in the next 20 years. Our kids!