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Post by jakeharris on Jun 2, 2016 8:53:09 GMT -6
Why bother with term limits; just ban lobbying and political donations and be done with it once and for all. Too bad the 'people' don't realise how much power they have, and prefer binging on box-sets instead... We can't ban anything. We elect officials to vote for us. THEY are the ones who would have to vote on legislation to ban lobbying. Does anyone believe there is one person in the world who would vote against against a golden goose? THEY will only vote the way you want them to if YOU hold them accountable... If you keep voting for the same guy, or more to the point, the same parties that never represent you, how can you possibly expect anything to ever change? And do you really believe it makes any difference whatsoever if you vote red or blue? The simple reality is that no supposedly democratic government can do anything without the tacit approval of its population. And the only thing I mean by democratic, is a government that can't shoot its population to get its own way... So how about in the upcoming elections, you vote for the guy in every state the establishment doesn't want to see elected, and who's campaign isn't flooded with corporate contributions? How about throwing out the fat cats and putting in the idealists for a change? And I'm not talking about guys like Obama or multi-billionaire narcissists, but those nobody's ever heard of, and who don't stand a chance of ever seeing office in the current system... And that, simply because they can't afford the obligatory smear campaigns, nor offer up the sensationalist sound-bytes needed to feature in the media... tldr: If you want change, you need to actually change something! You can't act all shocked and bewildered when the new Democrat or Republican administration acts in exactly the same way as the last Democrat or Republican administration... No need to take up arms and invade Washington, just make your vote count for something. |
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Post by Johnkenn on Jun 2, 2016 9:14:12 GMT -6
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse (benefits) from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage."
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Jun 2, 2016 9:18:36 GMT -6
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse (benefits) from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage." Truth |
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jun 2, 2016 12:31:38 GMT -6
The banksters have a gun to the head of every pension in the world.
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Post by joseph on Jun 2, 2016 12:48:30 GMT -6
Actually Dodd/Frank allows changing the system for the very first time, the new AG has the most experience prosecuting Wall Street banksters of anybody and the new head of the Fed is the woman who was waiving her arms screaming bloody-murder about what was about to happen. I can't imagine they aren't working hard on finding ways to change our banking system that won't be overly disruptive. Voice of reason! |
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