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yes, so things are fucked up. Brilliant, no what? Still have to deal with the problems and the question is who can mostly do better Overall, since I do not what to live biblically I prefer the democrats even if they are not even close to my own lights. so yr righteousness is really misplaced. Systemic problems? duh. - capsize
Not quite sure about the second thing you wrote. I don't live in a biblical way...doesn't mean you have to belong to one party or the other. As far as my righteousness ... well, I really don't know what to say to that. I want our politicians to be honest and engage in a little thing called public service. If that's being righteous then I'm guilty.
First you all should scratch a little bit of the crust off your partisan pie to see what the flavor actually is inside. Second, any of you who think that it's as black and white as Dem or Rep need to check your head - meaning, if you're a straight across partyline voter then you're really not seeing things objectively. Third, we need to change congress and as a wholly operating unit, as US Citizens, not Rep or Dems. We need to start chirping. Letting these people know that we expect them to hold up their end of the Constitution. The Constitution is the only contract we have between us and them and for the last 20 years it's been torn, tattered and raped. We, the American people need to let our government know that we've woken up from our nap. That means that we need to work on giving a large chunk of congress their walking papers. This bailout should have been the straw that broke the camels back in terms that 10 to 1 citizens did not want the bailout, the Congress passed it. This is not a slam on Democrats, Republicans are responsible as well. Thing is, our politicians are working for corporations now, not us, but we do have one tool left in the shed to change this - vote them out. We need to stop seeing in donkeys and elephants, it's only a distraction since really, honestly, both sides are working for their own interests and not ours. Both sides have been lobbied by the banks and mortgage companies who are benefiting from what's turning out to be about 17k per family for this bailout. Not that this is a direct charge to each family through taxes ... some of it will, the rest they're printing right now, devaluing our dollar. Besides the point, this bailout should be proof enough that our government is happy to keep doing business as usual. Neither presidential candidate talks about these things, both voted for it, both have received contributions in the millions of dollars from banks. Something is wrong here yeah? How does any of this benefit the people of the United States? If we can't get the corporations hands out of the pockets of our politicians, then we need to remove the politician from the position.
- So you are doing all of these things?DrBombay
- Unfortunately both of my congress women aren't up for election and I like my House Representative.tommyo
- But I am contributing $ and spreading the word of candidates in other districts that need a changin.tommyo
- Sorry, I mean neither of my congress women are up for 're-election' this term. 2010 one of them is going down though.tommyo
- I'll take the mistakes of tolerance over the crimes of greed. I prefer hope over fear, accountability over hypocrisy, and democrats over republicans.********
- There are initiatives that will make governing much more transparent especially interests swaying votes. We'll see if it makes a difference.********
- it makes a difference. Sunlight kills the bad.********