GOOOH aims to boot House reps

Ladies and gentlemen, it is GOOOH time.

I'm not trying to sound like a PA announcer before a home basketball game. I am talking about GOOOH: Get Out Of Our House.

GOOOH is a political organization with one main goal: evict all 435 of the representatives in Congress and replace them with people who actually know what is really going on in the lives of common Americans.

GOOOH aims to use a nationwide campaign to highlight regular, everyday people in communities who are members of the organization without party tags. These people will be candidates with ideas and with a purpose other than to gain wealth and power.

Through this system GOOOH will provide information to voters of certain districts about these individuals. When the time comes to elect our officials, members of GOOOH will use their resources and vote for the "common man" candidate over those who are already influenced by today's politics.

Today's politician is a career politician. He or she is influenced by money that comes in thanks to their privileged position. This is all fine, as money is a necessity. However, in the job of a politician, throwing money into the mix eventually distracts them from doing what they were put in Congress to do.

Instead, they become concerned only with getting re-elected, so the money stream keeps coming. After they achieve this, they sit on their backsides, arguing this and that but never doing anything. This applies to any candidate, and GOOOH is non-partisan.

The healthcare reform currently being bounced around the House and Senate is a great example. First of all, it is clear the American people as a majority do not want this type of change. Sure, most seem to agree our healthcare system has holes, which need to be filled; however, it is evident a public option is not what the American people want.

Yet Congress continues to press for it, and certain high and mighty members of our legislative branch then refer to healthcare reform protesters as "un-American." If they would actually listen to people and facts instead of doing whatever they want, our representatives might understand the majority of Americans do have healthcare coverage and would be against changing the entire system.

An election would usually fix this, right? Well, not with the current system. The thing about today's election environment: it is only about teams, Democrat or Republican. Many voters do not take time to step back and really consider whom they are putting in office or whom they are keeping out. It is just easier to align with one party or the other and let that decide our voting patterns. GOOOH wants to change this.

There is no doubt in my mind there is corruption in our government, and there has been for a very long time. This is why I see GOOOH as a beam of light in the darkness that is American politics. I believe in the current trend of how our government is run, the people of the United States are bound to be disappointed and permanently divided by these politicians who are only fighting for themselves. We need to change how our system of electing officials works before we can even think about changing healthcare or any other national institutions.