While driving recently I saw a truck that had a large amount of colored tape on it in the form of letters. What did these letter say? They were various negative phrases and statements in regards to President Obama and the healthcare bill. And on the back was the driver's final and perhaps most important statement to the public--Your Vote Counts!!!

I thought to myself, "There goes another idiot." However, I soon after began to think about what it was that drive a man to spend that much time, the passion one has to have to go so far as to risk whatever reputation they have and put their opinion out into public to be judged by coworkers, friend, family and neighbors.

Traditionally our country has been a country that was shaped and molded by its citizens, created by farmers, tradesmen, and militia. The working class had power and made their voices heard, albeit we must grant that it is easier to make changes to a foundation before you've already built a house on it.

Great writers and thinkers in American history, Whitman and Thoreau to name a few, spoke out about the citizens right and obligation to fix what is broken, to change what is unjust as it pertains to our government and the governance of its people. This was the song that was sung throughout American history in the face of war, slavery, taxes, and civil rights issues.

So the question I ultimately posed to myself upon reading the writing on this man's truck was, "Is this guy a nut, and no one would think me odd for saying this, or is this man in keeping with his obligation as a citizen of this democratic nation? Perhaps even he is not doing enough."

All of us take issue with some policy, regulation, or other facet of this enormous bureaucracy in which we live, and we take it on the chin day after day. Why? Why aren't all of us making statements about it. Why are we all not marching on Washington. I will concede that we have recently seen in the news the forming of tea parties and protestors, but this is only a small portion of our countries citizens acting on their convictions if we consider the population of this country. While I don't agree with some of the goingson at the tea parties, and the recent, misguided efforts of healthcare protestors, they are doing what our founding fathers and predecessors did when they forged our country in to the United States so many years ago.

But, the true question is why citizens of this country seem so content to sit back as spectators while our country is run by so few? Quite simply the sheer size of our country mixed with the unfathomable shadow cast over us by the U.S. government. What can one person do? What can