Ok, now I'm thoroughly pissed...
I don't know about you, but I am sick and tired of hearing about our "elected public servants" dipping into our damned pockets...
This is why I refused to get into the hoopla with Obama, because frankly, it's just a matter of time (IMHO).
Your thoughts?
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but those were completely legal campaign contributions and had no effect on policy decisions whatsoever.
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Isn't it sad that only the second half of that comment is being sarcastic?
As an aside, living in FL and having to put up with Bill Nelsons policy decisions on a personal level I have to say, the more I hear the more I want the fair tax passed so I can just stop giving my money to these guys.
Are you referring to sarcasm in your post, or perceived sarcasm in mine?
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I'm so used to being called out...guess I just thought you were talkin to me :)
Overall, I'm just sick and tired of the bread and circus techniques of politics. I feel like there's very little that the government (specifically, congress and senate) do to help US, their employers. I feel that the very notion of who they *work* for has been forgotten.
I mean, christ...look at California...they just (thankfully) struck down the legality of a crazy videogame branding/banning plan...yet the state cannot pay it's own bills. That to me just doesn't look like an organization that is very serious about what they are dealing with. Put the important issues first. Put the people first.
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I don't know about you, but I am sick and tired of hearing about our "elected public servants" dipping into our damned pockets...I don't have the exact quote, but Ben Franklin said something that speaks to this:
Democracy will last exactly as long as it takes for politicians to realize they can get elected by promising to pay their constituents from the public coffers.
Throughout man's history, there have always been more poor people than rich people. In a democracy (even a democratic republic), you'll win more elections by promising to take money from the rich and give it to the poor. This is a fact of life. The trick is to carefully define "rich" and "poor." Draw the line too high and there won't be enough money to go around; draw it too low, and your margin of victory (which politicians see as being the "people's mandate") drops to the point where you might not win.
All that aside, Madoff is obviously a crook that ran a ponzi scheme. On the other hand, we have a federally mandated ponzi scheme called "social security." Sounds like the governments policy is "do as I say, not as I do."
-Skeld
Skeld, I'm not saying I think the rich need to be downgraded. Nor do I exactly believe that is what you are trying to say.
It just seems like there is ALWAYS a link between someone majorly screwing people over...and the government. I am thoroughly tired of that.
I've said it many times and I still feel it's true. I'd like to see the government dismantled brick by brick and rebuilt. I'm not saying that the original intent or design was bad...I'm saying it has morphed and twisted into something pervertedly sick in the light of the original.
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Skeld, I'm not saying I think the rich need to be downgraded. Nor do I exactly believe that is what you are trying to say.
You're right; that's not what I'm trying to say. That paragraph was really more of an aside than anything. I don't think the rich need to be downgraded; I think the poor need to be brought up through encouragement, education, and leadership.
It just seems like there is ALWAYS a link between someone majorly screwing people over...and the government.
You're right again. Anytime you give someone authority of you, you run the risk of them taking advantage of you. This risk increases the more removed the authority is.
-Skeld