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If we as a people don't enjoy being lied to why do we let our governments do this time after time?
I know we do our best to prevent it but.....
6 Answers
- kaththea sLv 61 decade ago
Honestly? Because it's easier.
Most of us would rather pursue our own pursuits than worry about what our elected officials are up to. It's much easier just to take their word, or the media's, for what's going on than to investigate it for ourselves. Granted, lots of us are too busy trying to make a living to spend hours and hours keeping an eye on our politicians, but in that case, we deserve the conniving government we're presently stuck with.
How many of us have actually ever read and thought about the Preamble to the Constitution? If we had, we'd have changed the way the government has been operating the last 50 years or so, cause they've gotten way too big for their britches, and nobody much has done anything to even slow them down. In fact, there are so many people unwilling to take charge of their own lives and problems, and so eager for someone else to legislate the answers they're looking for, they've just sort of given away the governance of their country to a parcel of guys who have been scratching each others' backs for so long, they don't even remember the people of the United States except at election time. And since nobody much is keeping score, lies work better for them than actually doing the jobs they were hired to do.
Bear in mind that in any game where you don't keep track of what's going on...somebody's bound to cheat!
- 1 decade ago
There is a law created by politicians that any civilians can NOT sue a Politician if he or she does not live up to his/her promises.
In Canada that is very, very common, Politicians that are after a bone....oops....parliament seat.....they make so many promises that makes you head spin...
- ImaginerLv 41 decade ago
The sheep that follow W with their brown noses don't look at what he says objectively. They take his word. So hence a lie becomes the truth at all costs.
Source(s): One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. --George Orwell Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. --George Carlin - How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
How easy is it to prove they are lying to us and who will really spend the time to go that far to prove it. Man .... where's Ken Starr?
- Anonymous1 decade ago
They're experts at propaganda and the use of smoke and mirrors! Thye're flim flam men maybe the best the world will ever see!
The Flim flam men:
They make speeches about they must have taxes, and every politician knows what is being done in Alaska. Alaska Pays all their residents with earth rights and doesn’t tax their residents. This makes the politicians liars!
They make speeches to get elected and make promises about what they will do for us. They say nothing about getting every dime of lobby money to do what big biz wants that’s opposite what they promised you they would do. That makes them cheats!
They stole your grandmother’s retirement money from SS. Now you face getting nothing for your SS payments. That makes them thieves!
They tax us, but they know the foreign companies pay no taxes on the goods they sell here. The goods are sold then bought on paper in a foreign port to skate the tax laws. Thus eliminating their profit on paper to cheat the US out of the taxes they owe. This makes them backstabbers!
They take lobby money to put earmarks and pork in every law that passes their desk. Then they do photo ops, a news clips to promote themselves as doing something good for us and America. So they corkscrew us!
They make back room deals and give our tax money to foreigners who build factories with our money. Then they write laws that send our jobs overseas. This makes them dirty dealers!
So lets total all this up. They lie, cheat, steal, backstab, corkscrew, and dirty deal. HELL their Flim Flam Men! Just like in the George C. Scott movie “ The Flim Flam Man”!
They are called the “ Honorable” Senator or Representative. Hell Flim Flam Men have NO honor what so ever! They’re crooks, criminals for God’s sake!
The BBC has film of ALL of them going in and out of Abramoff’s restaurant. That’s THE place in DC to get loaded with lobby money. The BBC has been running this story, and trying to get the US media to run it too. The US media refuses to run the story.
It’s time to take America back! Get registered! VOTE! Vote for anyone that’s not a Democrat or a Republican. They have ALL the power and ALL the control. They must bear ALL the responsibility for their gross mismanagement and abysmally poor judgment! It’s time to put THEM in the unemployment line!
America could conquer the world. Not with warring, but with such overwhelming wealth that the whole world would lick our boots to get our help for themselves. I can make a provable, tangible, graph able outline for doing this.
First someone like me would have to the President. I say that because I'm the kind of man that can't be knuckled under, I don't take you can't do that and just quit, and no matter how hard the job is I never stop short.
I’m a working class man, I came up doing body work, so I know how to fix the tangled mess others have made.
As President, this being THE most powerful position in the world, I would go completely around the Senate and the House. I would use the Executive Order and write the checks to get what needs to be done, done ASAP! The treasury is in the executive branch and Lincoln wrote checks to get things done, so I would do the same.
By Executive Order, I would start with fixing the governments money problems and getting the citizens tax problems solved. Then I would stop the foreign companies that cheat the US out their share of taxes, and make a loophole free way to collect every penny they owe.
Next would come the illegals, I'd get them all registered, employed, and put them on the tax roles not us. We need the illegals paying taxes because there's just not enough Gen Xer's to pay the SS for the Boomers and Gen Xer's.
I'd make millions of high wage jobs with renewable power plant construction jobs and renewable power would be a priority. I'd build so much clean power we would have power in overabundance, and could supply the whole world with clean US made power. 1/3 of the money from the foreign power bills would be put into a fund and every head of household would get a paycheck and NO tax bill!
To continue doing this would make a book so I'm going to outline what’s to be:
1st90 days by ExOrder
Establish Earth Rights for all of America like in Alaska
End income taxes;fund the Gov the right way, not on our backs
End tax paper work for the citizens, not business
End all welfare programs, save the money
Balance the budget, officials are not paid till it’s done
Regular people for elected officials, no lawyers or rich
End lobbyists, take the money out of politics
Make graft illegal, have mandatory jail time
Close the DOE, save the money
Take the Gov out of the schools, PTA run save money
Set Iraq’s oil to pay for the war, make an exit plan with the military
Prisoners work for jail costs, not us, save the money
Make foreign tax cheats pay, tariff goods @retail every container
Register the illegals, put them to work and on the tax roles not us
Private SS accounts, makes us millionaires, no gov access to money
After90 days by ExOrder
Build renewable power, make millions of high wage jobs
Build a fund from foreign power bills like Alaska uses to PAY us
End Nuclear power
Build electric powered roads, make more millions of high wage jobs
Thousands of jobs building electric cars&trucks
End our dependence on foreign oil
Clean the polluted water with clean electric power
Return America to 50% of world’s economy
The Alaska state constitution claims common heritage rights of ownership of oil and other minerals for the people of the state as a whole. Citizen dividend checks are distributed every year in Alaska out of the interest payments to an oil royalties deposit account called the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) created in 1976 after oil was discovered on the North Slope. The APF is a public trust fund - a diversified stock, bond and real estate portfolio - into which are deposited the oil royalties received from the corporations which extract the oil from the lands of Alaska. The first citizen dividend check from the interest of the APF was issued in 1982 and was for $1000 per every person for everyone in Alaska who had resided in the state for at least one year. Annual citizen dividends have been issued every year since then, for a total of more than $23,000 per person.
In 2003, each of the nearly 600,000 Alaska US citizens (residents of Alaska for at least one year) received a check for $1,107 from the APF. The total amount dispersed was $663.2 million. The $25 billion investment fund's core experienced stock market losses which led to the dividend's decline this past year compared to the several previous years. The amount was $433 less, a 28 percent drop from the 2002 pay out of $1,540, and a 44 percent decrease from the all-time high of $1,964 in year 2000. The amount changes based on a five-year average of APF investment income derived from the bonds, stock dividends, real estate and other investments.
Alaska relies on oil for about 80 percent of its revenue and has no sales or income tax. Alaska state government is mandated to invest 25% of its oil revenue into the APF while the other 75% of oil royalty revenue is dispersed to other government funds to finance education, infrastructure and social services. If 100% of Alaska's oil royalties had been deposited into the APF, it is conceivable that the CD this year could have been about $4,400 or $17,600 for a family of four. But then there would have been no funds for roads, education and other public services and no funds available to run the state legislature - a libertarian dream fulfillment or a social and economic disaster, which one we will never know. If state services were to have been maintained while 100% of oil royalties were deposited in the APF, there would of course have been the need for income, sales and other taxes on wages and production.
Alaska uses Earth Rights to pay about $1000 p/yr and not tax their residents. With all 50 states my fed gov could pay $50,000 p/yr, NO TAXES, and fund the gov!
The foreign tariff money, the illegals taxes, and earthrights money pays all the gov expenses, funds the military better than now, and pays down the national debt with NO deficit.
The Renewable power fund would pay what I call a National Income Program, and when the fund matures in about 30 years, would pay about another $50,000 p/yr.
So $50,000 p/yr from the Earth Rights and NO taxes. Millions of high wage power plant construction jobs, we would need to build 5000 power plants just to start, and build for many years to come.
Then make millions more high wage jobs to build new electric powered roads to use the clean power. Makes thousands of jobs to build electric cars and trucks that use power from the new electric powered roads.
Foreign oil dependence would end! The Arabs could drink their oil, we don’t need it any more. The oil money that funds the terrorists would dry up, and terrorism would strangle, then die. Domestic oil production would supply all our needs.
Then comes the $50,000 p/yr from the National Income Program, with the Earth Rights money my gov could then pay every household $100,000p/yr, all with no taxes.
Then the private SS accounts would have about a $1,000,000 in them for your retirement. The rich make fortunes by building money in funds just this same way, so what works for the rich, will work for the nation.
This builds America to be 300,000,000 millionaires. The money would be passed to your Aires and NO TAXES. Each new generation would be richer than their forebears. Soon newborns would be born millionaires, and the system would continue to multiply their wealth for each next generation.
America would be so wealthy that soon we would be the envy of the world, and people from around the world would lick our boots for us to help them get where we would be. America rules the world with wealth, not war.
With stable power comes jobs, with jobs comes prosperity. Prosperity makes life comfortable, with comfort comes contentment. Contentment would bring peace, and war would be a thing of the past. If someone for some strange reason wanted start a war we could just stop beaming them power.
I take it you know electric power can be beamed on a microwave inside a laser beam to a satellite and put anywhere it's needed on the earth! So cut the beam and no power. It's hard to ,fight a war with no lights or power. America controls the power!
The renewable power is fuel-less so it's cheap clean power! It’s without the inflation of fuel costs, so the price would remain stable.
I grew up loving to watch Super Man as a kid, he made a lasting impression on me. I’ve lived my life by his motto “ Truth, Justice, and the American Way!”, it still rings in my ears today as it did when I was a child. I want to bring this to America’s government, and drive out the flim flam men! I want America to BE the shining example all the world wishes to emulate.
Would you vote for me to be the President?
We are all slaves, we own nothing! Even if you paid off the bank, try not paying the extortion tax, and the gov takes your house. Try not paying the income extortion tax, and you go to jail. You can’t even run away like the slaves of old. The gov will hunt you down, and you got to jail.
What’s the difference? You pay with your work, or you work to pay. We are slaves, the smoke and mirrors BS hides the truth from us. Da masser geds his’uns pound a flesh. Sucks! Doesn’t it?
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George William Curtis
America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.
Adlai Stevenson
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
George Santayana
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey
The universe grows smaller every day.
The treat to security by any group,
anywhere can no longer be tolerated.
There must be security for all, or none are secure!
This requires giving up no freedoms,
Except the freedom to act irresponsibly!
Klaatu
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke 1729-1797
Source(s): The Flim Flam Man starring George C. Scott www.permanentenergy.com www.earthrights.net/docs/oilrent that’s oilrent www.pfd.state.ak.us Klaatu's speech The Day the Earth Stood Still Link TV BBC expose on US gov officials and lobby money