EVERY Political Party is CORRUPT.

[Kulindahr]

P.S. Unions aren't weak. Unless you've seen what they can do first-hand, you have no idea what you're talking about.

Depends on the scale you're looking at.


BYW, Giancarlo brought up a good point: we'd all get corrupted. I was actually thinking about this the other day, and decided that six years in D.C. would be my limit, because that's about how long I could hold out.


And since term limits were mentioned, here's my idea: the Common Man Amendment -- no one would be allowed to serve in office longer than in the private sector. So if someone was in business for nine years, he could run for Representative, and then for Senator, but if he did a second term as Rep he'd have to go back into the private sector at least a year before running for the Senate. Etc.

Note that neither Obama nor McCain would have been eligible to run for president.

 

[KrisHawkXXX]

I don't hate the PEOPLE of America, for the people are not the American government. America is government established as an entity. We don't have a true democracy for we do not vote on issues directly or vote on what is produced for what purpose, for that is determined by the Capitalists since they are selling what is produced to profit. We vote for others that will take our place in voting on these measures.

 

[BostonPirate]

I don't hate the PEOPLE of America, for the people are not the American government. America is government established as an entity. We don't have a true democracy for we do not vote on issues directly or vote on what is produced for what purpose, for that is determined by the Capitalists since they are selling what is produced to profit. We vote for others that will take our place in voting on these measures.

BINGO!!

its not a democracy

Its a democratically elected republic, and the only chance the average voter gets in the ability to change how our country does business is at the polls.

Get registered. VOTE. Make sure the right guys are in office. This is the greatest freedom and the most sacred duty american citizenship carries... the responsibility to hire the gov't every 2-4-6 years.

Get involved this time Brandon. Make a difference. read about all the candidates and read and talk to people you respect. Form you own opinion on who needs to run the place, and get out there and be part of someones campaign.

THEN come back and tell me about the system and how it works.

YOU can make a change by expressing your opinion to your friends, and by getting as many people to vote as possible.

Its never a good idea to quit. Withdraw and regroup so that you can come back with a vengeance maybe... ... but don't walk away from the process. You are old enough now to go volunteer for a candidate that is running in your area.

now you go boy! you better WORK!

 

[Kulindahr]

I don't hate the PEOPLE of America, for the people are not the American government. America is government established as an entity. We don't have a true democracy for we do not vote on issues directly or vote on what is produced for what purpose, for that is determined by the Capitalists since they are selling what is produced to profit. We vote for others that will take our place in voting on these measures.

We vote on what is produced in the most effective way possible: with our dollars. And voting in the marketplace is a lot more free than voting for office -- not completely free; often we vote for a second choice because the one we want isn't in the store we have access to, but freer than in politics.

 

[Kulindahr]

In my experience, seldom is it availability, but affordability that is the issue.
I find this particularly true with clothing.

I'm thinking primarily of grocery shopping. To get the quality brands I want, I have to go to three different stores, then once a month drive ninety miles to another for a few things. Even then I'm often stuck with second-best.

To an extent that's because we're somehow getting a vendor-driven system, where the stores don't even decide what goes on their shelves any longer -- the vendors do. And vendors do ridiculous things like require an order over a certain dollar amount, even though they're already delivering to a store two blocks away and the truck isn't even half full.

So one of the local groceries got hundreds of complaints recently when a certain flavor choice disappeared, but the store was powerless: it was either accept what the vendor chose to put on the shelf, or get nothing. So people "voted" for second choices, because the first choice had been removed.


I think politics has become driven the same way: certain vendors of ideas/agendas have decided what our choices are, and those are the ones that appear on our "shelves" -- regardless of whether we like the brand or flavor.