Cleve Tidwell’s View on Lawyers in Washington
Famed American architect Addison Mizner said, “Ignorance of the law excuses no man—from practicing it.” With lawyers making up 54 percent of the Senate and 36 percent of the House, is it any wonder that the approval rating of Congress is just above 20 percent. Would you be able to retain your job with that level of performance? Of course not; private sector business demands production or it doesn’t exist.
Washington does not understand business. It is run by lawyers and career politicians with an agenda hardly recognizable to the U.S. Constitution and plainly outside healthy boundaries. To be blunt, they are destroying America.
Lawyers are exceptionally proficient at complicating the simple, talking without saying anything, and suing and billing. I am not a lawyer. I am a businessman. I understand that the truth resides in the simple. I understand that a free market system is essential to a thriving economy. I know that a successful operation requires a balanced budget.
Career politicians are exceptionally proficient at complicating the simple, saying one thing and doing another, and spending taxpayer money as if taxpayers are too dim to notice or care. I am not a career politician. I am a businessman. I understand that government is the robber of wealth not the grocer or the clothier or any of the other businesses in any town anywhere in these United States. I understand that deficit spending is a fast-track to dark decades and depressed generations.
Ignorance is taking over our country and it must be stopped now if we want our children and grandchildren to experience the American dream for which our ancestors gave their lives, their fortunes, and sacred honor. Time is of the essence; liberty is a step away from needing life support and the radical agenda in Washington is just waiting to pull the plug.
One of the downsides, if you will, of how valiantly our ancestors struggled and fought to protect the principles and values that our great nation was founded, is that it has shielded recent generations from full understanding of how fortunate they are to have been born in America, and not, for example, North Korea China, or Cuba. I do not recall sightings of American citizens jumping into the Atlantic Ocean to find refuge in a better country. I do not recall seeing American citizens being run over by military tanks in Times Square for speaking out against tyrannical government policies. Not in America, but Obama has promised to transform America, and, clearly, big changes have been made in the last 12 months under his command and Congress’ nods.
It is human nature that you never truly appreciate your health until you are unhealthy; you never truly appreciate your automobile until the battery goes dead and you are stuck along the roadside in a snow storm; you never really appreciate your job until you find yourself on an unemployment line; you never truly appreciate your parents until they’re gone. America—the land of the free and the brave—is something we simply cannot afford to take for granted?
Are you going to rollover to these poor performer lawyers and cemented politicians or will you take a stance and demand business in Washington? No more lawyers, no more career politicians—they cannot do the job.
My name is Cleve Tidwell and I am running to represent the great citizens of Colorado in the U.S. Senate. I am a Marine veteran, an international businessman, and proud descendant of an American Revolutionary patriot. Colorado, let’s show Washington how business is done.
