oh my God!!! you really think democracy is a good thing
didn't your daddy teach you anything? On Sep 8, 4:15 pm, Meadow <[email protected]> wrote: > A true democracy requires honesty in banking and investing. Our > financial services and investment industries have deteriorated into a > pack of Liars Loans and Ponzi Schemes, and our government and its > legal system are apparently ignoring the situation. The theory that > "The best way to rob a bank is to own one" has been substantially > proven. > > The Guilty and the Guiltier on Wall Street are given a slap on the > wrist and rewarded with million-dollar bonuses. We send Martha Stewart > to prison for almost nothing and these criminals are running free. > William Black, a senior regulator during the investigations of the > Savings and Loan crisis in the 1980s, says Bernie Madoff is a piker > compared with what's really going on. Fraud is the major cause of the > financial collapse. > > This is a crucial point in the decline of democracy. The practice > seems to be morphing into anti-intellectual ravings and false > accusations instead of an informed electorate. The real crisis is the > decline of morality in this country. Greed and corruption have become > the norm, and not just in the financial, insurance and petroleum > industries. > > For example, in the industrial countries that provide healthcare to > their people, the first step was to make a moral choice: People > deserve to live. Nobody should die because they can't afford > healthcare. After that decision was made they went about finding ways > to fund the system. Their governments are for the people. Not Big > Business, as in the United States. Are real Americans actually unable > to make this moral choice? > > The major failure of a democracy might be the right for an uninformed > public to vote. The system doesn't work if the voters are illiterate > and uninformed. Propaganda works too well with them. Especially when > you have a 24-hour media that is desperate for news and feeds on the > sensational, instead of the facts. The Republicans have certainly > embraced this technique. > > In a Democracy, it should be about US. What's good for US is good for > everybody. Too many Americans are focused on themselves, not the good > of the country and its people. Again, this is a lack of morality. We, > as a country, and especially the religious right, need to return to > The Golden Rule and practice what we preach. > > Real Americans need to get out and support Obama's efforts to fix this > country. And to combat the continuing lies and false accusations of > the vocal, but uninformed Republican right wing. Bush, Cheney, et. Al, > deserve to be in prison, not in the media. Hard-working Americans > deserve better than they're getting. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
