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- Since politics have become a career for our elected officials and the longer that they serve the more they serve themselves. Now is the time for term limits.
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- Elect people that have already earned their success in the real world. That would be a great start. get rid of street corner activists and poverty pimps that never met a payroll or even had a real job. of course they steal everything they can get their greedy hands on. How else could they get rich?
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- It really seems hopeless. I am hoping and praying that maybe someone in our military will have the guts to step in and STOP THE INSANITY!!That is what we need.
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- So, what are their names? We can vote them out. I think public servents should have their motives kept in check by accepting nothing more than housing, transportation, health bennies and a fixed salery. We should take these unfailthful servents money and give it to the worthy shelters for the poor and kick them back into the working world with the rest of us.
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- This is very interesting. I just had a book published "Unelectum All" so you can see I totally agree with Peter Schweizer. As bad as things are, I would not be surprised to see a few more books with like titles. We should be ashamed that we keep re-electing the bums. This time we need to unelect every incumbent, regardless of party.
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- If you are one of the MANY Little People out here congressmen and senators are not above the law. It's time they lived by our laws the same as we have to do. They don't enforce the ones they don't like and break the others. Gosh what a job! No respect for We The People at all. You add all theis to the Fast and Furious and Solyndra and yes semd them all to jail. NOW. If We The People don't grow a spine and send these people packing we can forever look abck at the missed chance of a lifetime.
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- THIS WOULD BE A GREAT PLACE TO START.
Justices, 5-4, Reject Corporate Spending Limit
By ADAM LIPTAK
January 21, 2010
WASHINGTON — Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations (which includes international corporations) in candidate elections. Will the Supreme Court's campaign finance decision damage democracy?
The 5-to-4 decision was a vindication, the majority said, of the First
Amendment's most basic free speech principle — that the government has no business regulating political speech. The dissenters said that
allowing corporate money to flood the political marketplace would
corrupt democracy.
{ECONOMYSTIC EXTRAORDINAIRE EDITORIAL}
This was the beginning of the END. The Supreme Court ruled that corporations can contribute as much money as they want to any political party, campaign or contender. This started the ball rolling. Even if, as is the revulsion we are witnessing, this could be changed it would literally take an act of congress; however, why would they do that. This ruling put the foxes in charge of the henhouse. In economics we call it an agency problem. Again, this would take legal action to rectify. Do you see THE problem with that? - Reply to this comment
- This is the criminal justice system. Judges, lawyers, and cops stick together. You can't prosecute any of these people. That's a joke. Once in a while you might see where one did something so horrendous that they have to make a show but he will never go to prison. Surely you have seen it too over the years. The all have "Absolute Immunity" you can't touch any of them. And if you are threatening their power then you are the problem and YOU will go to jail, or in this instance no matter what the law says you are judged wrong and there is nothing you can do about it because a judge made that decision and the judge has "Absolute Immunity." And the lawyers have "Absolute Immunity." And the cops have "Absolute Immunity." You have absolutely nothing.
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- We need names and a Congressional Investigation.....uh, nevermind.
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- It's time to Tar and Feather all of them. Send them a Tar and Feather Kit.
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