Start with term limits (12 max in congress) and strict campaign finance
finance reform ( i have that already writtten out) for starters. and a cap
on what top management can make also.
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 9:12 PM, WarpTen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It was all very colorful and flowery in expression but to imply
> socialism to the candidacy is a stretch of the imagination and loaded
> with innuendo. Obviously the majority of initial candidacy choices
> were totally abandoned and now we have a paltry choice, typical of any
> election year, Republican or Democrat. All the other candidates fell
> to the wayside (let's for arguments sake disregard Nader and the
> other) and so we have to choose from that which has slipped through
> the cracks. One is old and lame with a dipsy airhead running mate and
> the other is a cocky arrogant uppity with a running mate who runs the
> mouth ahead of the brain. All in all the bottom line is rebuilding the
> nation without compassion for the wealthy who have had a free ride for
> years. If we do not invest in the advancement of the general populous
> we will eventually be inundated with poverty run amok. Tax breaks for
> the wealthy and corporate entities has not accomplished anything and
> has actually delivered us to this precipice of which you refer. We
> need to change the old established political guarde in order to see a
> meaningful change in American image on a global scale. We cannot
> measure our condition on the basis of founding principles but must
> address our quandary on contemporary standards. Forty acres and a mule
> is no longer a viable solution to economic distress. With corporate
> vampires depleting the core values of our political foundation, it is
> obvious that we must rebuild from the ground floor up. They just
> burdened the tax payers with a 800 billion dollar bailout for the
> wealthy; has it had much of a positive impact? Foreclosures are
> increasing exponentially, poverty is running rampant, the Bush's,
> Halliburton, CEO's and others have amassed magnanimous wealth. I don't
> make $250K a year so I'm looking for change. The Obama's live in a
> 1.65 million dollar home and the McCains own 7 houses, I'm struggling
> to hold on to one while these bastards want the people to pay for
> corporate screw ups with fat personal financial portfolios. It's funny
> how they all know how to make the best of their own personal finances
> but when it comes to American economics they are supposedly clueless
> as to what the problems are. Do you get the feeling that we are all
> being duped? Year after year? Every single year?
>
> On Oct 27, 8:08 pm, Jim Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > As America squats upon the precipice of electing a dyed in the wool
> > socialist, hell bent on destroying the country that made him into the
> > wealthy elitist he truly is, I can't help feeling that we are quite
> > simply reaping what we have sown. For we have taken the gift that is
> > America, "paid for in blood by patriots" and adulterated it beyond all
> > recognition. We have inherited the dreams and aspirations of those
> > founders only to squander them as irrelevant or antiquated.
> > Apparently we have a majority of citizens ready to willingly embrace
> > socialism when it was capitalism combined with the entrepreneurial
> > spirit of ordinary people most responsible for American
> > exceptionalism. In just over two hundred years we, as a country, have
> > bested the rest of the world in every form of human endeavor. We have
> > the highest standard of living known to man. For all of the hyperbolic
> > hyperbole about poverty across these fruited plains even the supposed
> > impoverished are fat and happy mired in their muck. We have six
> > billion people weighing down this orb and more than half of them do so
> > without such luxuries as electricity and running water. And yet we
> > complain and demand change.
> > What has spoiled this country is the separation from those founders,
> > from their ideals combined with our tepid faith in our constitution
> > and God. John Adam's said, "We have no government armed with power
> > capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and
> > religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the
> > strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our
> > Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is
> > wholly inadequate for any other".
> > Until 1948 the bible and God was an integral component in the rearing
> > and education of America's youth. 1949 stands out as the first year of
> > a decline in scholastic achievement.
> > Speak to anyone of public school matriculation and, on balance, the
> > most favored response to religion in the classroom is the oft repeated
> > separation of church and state. Yet, no such language exists in our
> > founding documents and those who born this country couldn't imagine a
> > populace so ill informed as to the bible and the word of God.
> > Still, highlighted in this misconception is the apt labeling of an ill
> > informed electorate as to the content and context of our founding
> > documents; the cornerstone of this representative republic.
> > It is saddening to realize that those men, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin,
> > et al, pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to
> > foster a country now inhabited by spoiled children willing to follow
> > the latest pied piper into an ideology that has miserably failed every
> > time it's been tried.
> > The tenets of socialism are directly proportional to our national
> > debt, our porous borders, our entitlement mentality, the current
> > financial crisis, our bloated bureaucracy, abortion, gay marriage and
> > the rapid moral and social decay infecting the body whole that is
> > America. Now, it seems, the great unwashed residing in this divinely
> > inspired republic is desirous to not only dip their respective feet in
> > the communal socialist pool but jump head first off the high dive and
> > become totally immersed. This only confirms a suspicion I've held for
> > some time; Mr. Adam's was right. Without religion and morality our
> > constitution survives not. However, in another sense, perverted as it
> > is, it is only common sense. After all, checkers sells more than
> > chess. And I can't recall the last time I gazed upon the New York
> > Times best seller list and recognized the King James edition of our
> > holy bible gracing that population.
> > Conservative Springfield 27 OCT 08
> >
>
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