dimensionallava
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military industrial complex maybe?Yes, so why the emphasis on spending 20% of the National Budget on the DoD, when we have far better venues for its expenditure to better American lives.
midterm elections are lucky to get 33% voter participation, I dont see that changing anytime soonA country needs "objectives", and the US has (every four years) a useless palaver between two camps fighting for control of the Nation's Purse! Every four years we spend a reckless amount of money to seek and select a PotUS. When, in fact, it is the Legislature that's equally important, and perhaps more so than the Executive.
thats mostly republicans, barney frank recently accused them of gerrymandering his district by putting more rich people in his district, and if you look at the map of some of them its obvious but sometimes in can be hard to tellThus the neglect in voting by the American electorate is directly responsible for the economic mess we are in today. Given the manner in which voting is manipulated on the local level (gerrymandering), outcomes are often predictable.
what about a wealth limit law for those in congress? anyone with more than 1 million in the bank cant be a congressmen? sound good?We never should have allowed the SubPrime Rate to create Toxic Waste that would trip our economy into the worst Recession since the 1930s. But at the time, we had a Replicant PotUS who would never dare touch the Wall Street Money-pump Mechanism that was making millionaires on a weekly basis. Nothing must change - that is axiomatic doctrine in the Replicant camp.
Neither did we collectively do anything whatsoever to prevent it! We believed like simpletons that our elected officials were looking after our "best interests". When, in fact, they were looking after their own. With the number of millionaires that we elect to Congress, why should Congress be concerned with a Financial system gone warped?
As long as it keeps the money-pump running, our Congressional millionaires are happy. From OpenSecrets.org: Millionaires’ Club: For First Time, Most Lawmakers are Worth $1 Million-Plus, excerpt:
What's happeing? This: Americans are so infatuated with riches that we keep electing the rich to run the country!
Which means what? This: It is not the least bit in their interests to change the status-quo of upper-income taxation, which is the single-most reason that they are rich. They have become America's "elite", and they intend the situation to stay exactly that way.[/SIZE]
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