New Hampshire: The Real Facts

We need true citizen representation in Congress
By JENNIFER HORN

CONGRESS is failing the American people, and the people know it. According to a recent Rasmussen poll only 9 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing.

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It's not hard to understand why. Gas prices continue to skyrocket, people are losing their homes and the economy is in disarray. Personal gain and political gamesmanship have replaced public service as motivation for serving in public office. Government no longer works for the people it was created to serve; special interests win over the average voter every day.

Congress is charged with providing leadership on the most critical issues of the day: energy independence, national security, the American economy. None of the challenges we face today is new -- Republicans and Democrats alike have had ample opportunity to take action and work toward real solutions.

Instead, they have chosen partisan bickering and inaction and have failed the American people.

According to the same Rasmussen poll, 72 percent of the American people think most members are more interested in furthering their own political careers than serving the people. Too often we hear, "that's just the way it is." Most believe that the self-serving culture of Washington will never change.

The truth is, it can change and it must. Good people everywhere must come together and demand accountability from their representatives. Working people all over New Hampshire understand that if they do not do their jobs they will be fired. We should hold members of Congress to the same standard.

The system is broken and only the people have the power to fix it. It is time to change the kind of people we send to Congress. It is time to rise up as an electorate and reject the business-as-usual mentality of career politicians and power brokers.

Our country was founded on the premise of service to others. George Washington was not a politician or power broker. He was a Virginia farmer who felt compelled to serve his nation.

He fought for the freedom of his neighbors, served as leader to the fledgling nation, and when he felt his service to our country was done, he went back home to his farm.

The partisan gridlock of our elected representatives threatens the very freedoms our Founding Fathers fought to protect.

Each one of us has a duty to serve the cause of democracy and freedom. We have an opportunity this year to change the way Washington does business. We have an opportunity to make government work for the people again. It is time to return government to the hands of the people, where our Founding Fathers intended it to be.

Jennifer Horn, a radio talk show host in Nashua, is running for the Republican nomination for Congress in New Hampshire's 2nd District.

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