What can we do right now to get more revisionists into important public offices who can make real change in our government and better serve the "will of the people". Neither the democratic or republican parties share all the values or interests of most Americans and the endless party bashing has been a very negative influence on the country.
I'm not a political activist or poli-sci grad so keep it simple, please. IMPEACH HIM This answer was far from the best much like our political system. Report It
The necessary first step is REAL campaign finance reform. I've heard that Britain has a system where as part of their FCC license requirements, all broadcast media are required to give an equal amount of time to all qualified candidates. That would eliminate the need for candidates to go begging major corporations, unions and special interest groups for money every four years and the necessity to give them something in return for the money. It would also allow candidates with less money to have their ideas heard by the majority of voters. However, I don't think anything can completely eliminate "polarization" of political parties. There are certain controversial issues which neither side is willing to compromise on. In most of these, I tend to agree with the side that is not trying to impose it's beliefs on others. The Republicans and Democrats have a stranglehold on our political system, which inhibits and prevents freedom of choice. "Republicrats" are all in the same bed with special interest groups, lobbyists, and big business.
Until we Americans get off the sofa, put down the remote, and DEMAND to take back our country, politicians will continue their pandering to these special interests and nothing will change.
Americans are like lobsters in a comfortable pot of lukewarm water. Once that water boils over, we'll start screaming in agony over our own apathy. But by then, it might be too late.
Thomas Jefferson once said: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." THAT TIME IS OVERDUE!
The Constitution allows the right to bear arms against a tyrannical and oppressive government, but we're all just too damn comfortable with our maxxed-out credit cards; Britney Spears' love life; $3.00-a-gallon fuel for our $60,000 SUVs; and the latest rankings of our favorite football teams. Until we take more of an active role in the political process, our sleazeball politicians will continue sucking off the taxpayers' teat, enriching themselves with lavish salaries, outlandish medical and retirement benefits, all-expense-paid luxury vacations, and
and automatic cost-of-living pay increases.
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It's time for a second American Revolution! The partisan government is failing the American people, BIG TIME! -RKO- We need more than that! I'll bet you don't know just how bad it is.
Let open your eyes to thre real US gov. Then lets see if you get pollitically active.
You don't know the half of it! That BS about they got to have taxes is a GIANT lie! Alaska pays and doesn't tax their residents. The state makes all the oil, minerals, ores, ect. belong to the residents by law.
The companies that take the Earth's good pay the state for them and the money goes into a fund. The fund pays ALL the state costs and PAYS everyone $1000 p/yr.
The Alaska state constitution claims common heritage rights of ownership of oil and other minerals for the people of the state as a whole. Citizen dividend checks are distributed every year in Alaska out of the interest payments to an oil royalties deposit account called the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) created in 1976 after oil was discovered on the North Slope. The APF is a public trust fund - a diversified stock, bond and real estate portfolio - into which are deposited the oil royalties received from the corporations which extract the oil from the lands of Alaska. The first citizen dividend check from the interest of the APF was issued in 1982 and was for $1000 per every person for everyone in Alaska who had resided in the state for at least one year. Annual citizen dividends have been issued every year since then, for a total of more than $23,000 per person.
In 2003, each of the nearly 600,000 Alaska US citizens (residents of Alaska for at least one year) received a check for $1,107 from the APF. The total amount dispersed was $663.2 million. The $25 billion investment fund's core experienced stock market losses which led to the dividend's decline this past year compared to the several previous years. The amount was $433 less, a 28 percent drop from the 2002 pay out of $1,540, and a 44 percent decrease from the all-time high of $1,964 in year 2000. The amount changes based on a five-year average of APF investment income derived from the bonds, stock dividends, real estate and other investments.
Alaska relies on oil for about 80 percent of its revenue and has no sales or income tax. Alaska state government is mandated to invest 25% of its oil revenue into the APF while the other 75% of oil royalty revenue is dispersed to other government funds to finance education, infrastructure and social services. If 100% of Alaska's oil royalties had been deposited into the APF, it is conceivable that the CD this year could have been about $4,400 or $17,600 for a family of four. But then there would have been no funds for roads, education and other public services and no funds available to run the state legislature - a libertarian dream fulfillment or a social and economic disaster, which one we will never know. If state services were to have been maintained while 100% of oil royalties were deposited in the APF, there would of course have been the need for income, sales and other taxes on wages and production.
If the feds were doing their job the nation would have a system like this. Then with 50 states doing the earthrights, the feds could PAY us $50,000 p/yr and NO TAXES!
I took them patented 100% clean fuel-less electric power, and they snubbed me! Because I told them I wanted to build enough to supply the world with clean US made power. I wanted to take 1/3 of the foreigner鈥檚 power bills and make a fund like Alaska and pay every head of household from the fund. That could be another $50,000 p/yr for every household.
Fuel-less means it's CHEAP clean power. .05c p/KW!
Clinton; was to busy(gettin BJ's)
Gore; "wished me the best of luck" (Mr. BS movie)
Newt; " Promised his full support"( to sell it for .01c on the dollar)
Newt's pissed at me for not taking Ga. Power's offer, he thought it was a great offer! Hell the patent cost more than their offer.
I've never gotten any gov support for this.
I did spend $50,000 in DC trips!FOR NOTHING!
The feds are Fg you for $100,000 p/yr, AND making you pay taxes.
Ever hear even one politician say anything about these things? Hell no, they talk like taxes are the only way. They ALL know what Alaska does! This makes them liars!
They tax you, but let EVERY foreign company pay NO taxes on their goods they sell here. ALL the goods are sold then bought on paper in a foreign port to make a no profit paper hoodwink on the tax. This makes them cheaters!
They stole your grandmother鈥檚 retirement by spending the SS money they had no rights to. No we face getting nothing for our SS payments. This makes them thieves!
They give our tax money to foreign companies and they build factories with it. They then write laws to send our jobs overseas. This makes them backstabbers!
They get up and make speeches to get elected and they never say a word about how they will get every dime of lobby money to do whatever big biz wants them to. They get $100,000 a pop for every issue they told you they would do different. This makes them corkscrewers!
They make back room deals and take graft to put pork into every law that goes by their desk. Then they scream in speeches, do photo ops, and news show saying what a great job they're doing. This makes them dirty dealers!
Now lets total this up; they're liars, cheats, thieves, back stabbers, corkscrewers, and dirty dealers. Why HELL they're Flim Flam Men! Just like in George C. Scotts movie " The Flim Flam Man"!
They call themselves the "Honorable" soandso? HEll Flim Flam Men have NO honor what so ever! They're crooks, criminals for god's sake!
The smoke and mirrors plus their BS propaganda hoodwinks the population to what is really happening. Watch the BBC news, this stuff is all over the BBC news. They have film of every official. I mean ALL of them, going in and out of Abramoff's restaurant in DC, that鈥檚 where lobbyists do the big money deals to F you! They go almost every day! ALL of them!
We had better smell the smoke! The house is burning down and we're asleep.
Get registered! VOTE! Vote for anyone that鈥檚 not a Democrat or a Republican! They have ALL the power, and ALL the control. They must bear ALL the responsibility for their gross mismanagement and abysmally poor judgment!
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