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Federal agents raid Alaska home of Senator Stevens
Is there an honest person left running our government? We have to replace all the bums...and I mean all, both Democrats and Republicans.... |
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Is there an honest person left running our government? We have to replace all the bums...and I mean all, both Democrats and Republicans....
Campaign "contributions" and sneakier deals will ensure that money buys US representatives. And judges and Executives. If we can conceive of a way to escape this there would be hope of evading the two gangs. |
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I can think of several. Term Limitations. No more than two terms…… Election Finance reform. Very limited budgets, all paid by the Government---No private money at all, No Pacs. Time limits on electioneering. No more than two months before the election…. We have to make it so even a working man can spend time serving his country not just rich millionaires… We could severely limit lobbyist. They are just a high form of bribery anyway. Don’t worry, nothing will happen, things will stay the same, those in power will remain because that’s the way they want it to be. Big money, corporations rule the day and the work folks get screwed and don’t even care. The average joe in America could care less about what is going on about him and until he gets hit in the pocket book and gets hungry you won’t see any changes. I would rather see him wake up a little at a time instead of a violent upheaval that I fear may happen. Lots of jobs are being lost along with a lot of homes and it could get nasty! |
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Suspended: 20 days. Stillkit |
This didn't receive much play. Did anyone figure out why, all of a sudden, Ted Stevens is being investigated?
It's our newely politicized Justice Dept. Ted has been in the Senate since 1968. That he is only being investigated now, in 2007, is because he has broken with the Whitehouse on issues. Also his corporate supporters are switching their financial support to the Democrats because it looks like the wind is blowing in that direction. To reap political retribution and scare off others who would support Democrats Justice was given their marching orders. |
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If a tree falls in a forest and lands on a politician, even if you can't hear the tree or the screams, I'll bet you'd at least hear the applause. Paul Tindale  |
Problem with term limits, there is. Makes the incumbant all the more in a hurry to fill his pockets within the term limits. Better yet, get rid of PACs, corporate donations, and limit all donations.
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Point one, Ted didn't start putting his hand into the cookie jar for his personal benefit until well into the eighties ... check out his financial disclosure statements over time. He hasn't even taken that much, since he is ranked 48th in the Senate for personal wealth ... but he didn't have dime one when he got there. Point two, I can't find any issue where Ted Stevens has "broken with the White House". What are you talking about?  |
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[quote]I can think of several.
Term Limitations. No more than two terms…… Election Finance reform. Very limited budgets, all paid by the Government---No private money at all, No Pacs. Time limits on electioneering. No more than two months before the election…. We have to make it so even a working man can spend time serving his country not just rich millionaires… We could severely limit lobbyist. They are just a high form of bribery anyway. Don’t worry, nothing will happen, things will stay the same, those in power will remain because that’s the way they want it to be. Big money, corporations rule the day and the work folks get screwed and don’t even care. The average joe in America could care less about what is going on about him and until he gets hit in the pocket book and gets hungry you won’t see any changes. =======The deepest answer was considered by the founding fathers. An informed electorate. The electorate has not been informed that the informing media is bought, biased by their profits. An informed electorate would ignore paid advertising and nurture media that presented actual debates in which candidates were asked questions by voters. |
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The program could be called "THE STUMP." The audience would be voters who have expressed sufficient interest in questioning candidates. Producers will study the speechmaking procedure in Lincoln's time and mimic it as much as possible with US tv trained voters. For instance they could indicate by a show of hands when they wish for a candidate to hush----give up trying to answer a question.
Possibly there is enough productive intelligence free of the commercial propaganda organ to produce a forum that will encourage an informative intercourse between the US electorate and US candidates. Possibly a respectable percentage of the original "Stump" debates. |
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Now that I can agree with!  |
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Talking about hitting the nail on the head!!!! The only way anyhthing WOULD change, is IF: The honest people (in Washington) would out-number the dishonest ones!! And of we course we ALL know the "Moral Majority" is neither!!!  |
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Thomas Jefferson thought that a revolution was necessary about every 200 years. Could he see that today's electorate is content to not be informed by candidates, he would think it overdue.
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It saddens me to read of all this corruption. As a kid I was taught to respect leaders. This has been replaced with, all are sinners and not nessicarilly deserving of my respect.
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