The town hall meetings put in motion by the health care debate has made Americans wonder more about the accessibility of our elected officials than our access to health care. As more citizens speak out against the health care reform, many legislatures are finally having a much needed reality check – we don’t work for them; they work for us.

These politicians seem to have one goal: to tell us, the common American, what is best for us. What we need. What we are suppose to want. What they do know, however, is that the more dependent we become on them, the more power they will hold.

Perhaps these Washington elites should have first held these meetings with the people back home before they signed onto this bill that they hadn’t even had time to read? And now, they’re ridiculing their very own constituents because they’ve actually had the nerve to question them. As Americans, it is not only our right, but our responsibility to get involved, ask questions, and even protest.

To accept without questions a plan of such importance is as practical as going to a restaurant where the waiter brings you a plate of "exactly what he knew you needed" and charging you whatever he wants without you ever looking at a menu. No thanks. I will just stay home and prepare my own dinner.

A representative from Illinois referred to his constituents as "mob scenes." When did we stop referring to people with opposing view points as "protesters" and start calling them "angry mobs?" Congressman Barney Frank from Massachusetts confirmed that it does not pan out to associate with the common folk. He succumbed to the pressure put forth by dissenting views by resorting to belittling an attendee by asking her "what planet have you been living on?" after she asked a question concerning Obamacare. It is finally time for Americans to speak out against these ludicrous and supercilious politicians and demand that change be made in Washington. Not regarding our lives, but the lives of our politicians. It is time that these legislatures put to rest the foolishness and big egos and remember the people who hired them in the first place.