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Do we need a voter's revolution?
We have been firing the individual candidates for years without any real change in the type of candidates we get. Do you think the parties care that the faces and names change? The individuals get their "marching orders" from the main parties. The two main parties seem more concerned with gathering more and more money and power to themselves. They are clearly more interested in serving their corporate overlords and themselves than the American people. In my opinion, we need campaign finance reform, shorter election cycles and term limits. Neither party will ever do any of these things. They will never self correct. It is also clear that both parties are failing to represent their own constituents. President Obama just recently stated he is for gay marriage (I don't think he actually is), but he doesn't have to be for it because gays will never vote for Republicans en masse; but it's getting close to election time and I think he came out for it to make sure that the LGBT community didn't just stay home on election day. During the Bush administration Republicans held both houses as well as the executive branch, but they did nothing for the pro-life movement; again because they don't have to. The religious right will never vote for Democrats. They think they have us locked in, so why do anything for the voters you will never lose? Where is the anti-war movement liberals? Republicans run up deficits just like the Democrats. Both parties raise as much money from Wall Street as the other; and let's just call that what it is: bribery. I'm not saying that businesses don't deserve a voice in our Republic, but they don't deserve such a loud voice that they drown out the voice of the common man. We were meant to be a government for the people by the people; which is supposed to mean all of us, not just the few. The "leaders" we have right now just keep us angry, scared and divided. Real leaders are supposed to unite people, lift them up, take responsibility for their actions and give credit where credit is due. The people we have now are no more than thespians playing a role with their plastic smiles and talking points. What kind of leader needs handlers or has others tell them what to say? They would have us believe that the people on the opposite side of the political spectrum are the enemy, but in reality they are our fellow Americans; our family members and friends. Surely you don't think they don't deserve a voice in our government because they have different beliefs than yourself? There is no "them"...it's just us, and that is nothing to fear. There is no defeating liberals, just like there is no defeating conservatives; there are new ones being born everyday. Also, if one side or the other did somehow get everything they want, we would no longer be the UNITED States of America. Half the country would be disenfranchised. We all have to give a little to receive much more. Democracy is compromise. If you think you should get everything you want then you need to grow up because you are being childish. We have a lot of problems in this country and it doesn't appear that either party has what it takes to correct our course. In fact, they appear to be the main problem. So, how do we fix it? In the end, our representatives work for us. A good boss knows when to fire a bad employee. If one looks at the Tea Party movement and the Occupy Wall Street crowd they both point to the fact that Americans are fed up across the political spectrum. Common wisdom says that voting for anyone other than the two main parties is wasting your vote, and who wants to do that? I say that voting for either main party is a wasted vote. What if we had a voters revolution? There are many other parties. Liberals could vote for members of the Green Party, Socialist Party or the Peace and Freedom Party. Conservative could vote for the Libertarian Party, the Constitution Party or we could make the Tea Party a more legitimate party. There are many more to choose from. What would happen if we did this is the liberal parties would have to compete for liberal votes; thus forcing those parties to actually be liberal, and the conservative parties would have to compete for conservative votes; thus forcing those parties to actually be conservative. This would also give us more choices for President because as all of these parties grew they would all put forward candidates. Also, we have a lot of sailors, Marines, soldiers and Airmen and women returning home, and they are going to need jobs. Who better to run for office in these minority parties? This is the best answer to our problems that I can come up with. So, what do you guys think? Possible, impossible? If you have a better idea I would love to hear it. We can't just wait for someone to save us. We have to save ourselves. There is no knight in shining armor. No "political messiah".
In the end, all we have to do is change the way we vote. Voter's revolution anyone? (Sorry for the length)
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- Anonymous5 years ago
Wow! Believe the whole thing you learn on the net and lovely quickly you think there is an global conspiracy of bankers to rule the arena. Get this: if humans don't seem to be spending cash, and the banks have all of it, then what well might cash be? Same with gold. Same with silver. The Federal Reserve Board runs 12 separate neighborhood banks that have banks as their individuals. The banks possess inventory within the federal reserve, however they are not able to promote or switch it. They pay for that inventory with reserve deposits from their capital reserve created while the banks are chartered both by means of a state or the comptroller of the forex. When a financial institution opens up for trade, it has 2 reserves. Its preliminary reserve is deposited one million/two with the fed and one million/two saved in its possess reserve account. It then seeks out depositors. Once deposits are within the financial institution, the financial institution can lend out in a ratio of at any place from two:one million to 70:one million headquartered on their capital reserves. If they're very powerful they are able to lend bigger and longer. Every time any individual buys a automobile, or takes out a private mortgage, or buys a house with a loan, the banks credit that mortgage on its books which makes it a plus on its steadiness sheets. It then applies to acquire coins which it will get from the fed that is then placed into the debtors account and paid out to whoever offered the article financed, or if a private mortgage, coins taken out and placed within the borrower's financial institution account. The cause why Washington Mutual failed used to be that there used to be whatever like a sixteen billion greenback run on deposits over a ten day interval on the grounds that cash used to be most effective insured as much as $one hundred,000 in step with account. So huge depositors desired their cash now. This destroyed their lending ration in order that it went from say 20:one million to seventy nine:one million leaving it in outcome with a liquidity obstacle. Te excellent weapon within the so known as bailout conflict is to infuse coins into powerful lending associations to convey their capital reserves and depositor price range to a ratio that's extra fair like four:one million or perhaps 6:one million. However, that's no longer the ideal repair to the procedure. You desire to repair the procedure, then America has to begin generating merchandise it consumes and will promote foreign by way of exports in adequate volume to make America a web exporter alternatively of a client state. Its an overabundance of credit score, coupled with immoderate intake of international made items, that has ruined this economic climate. The housing bubble and cave in of the loan-sponsored securities enterprise is just a fraction of the main issue. You can vote all you favor, however the realities are transparent and grim. The board isn't the risk, it used to be conveniently reacting to a credit score - enlargement economic climate that used to be increasing some distance past its manner and doing to this point too swiftly. The crash used to be inevitable. The run on loan securities with traders promoting out increasingly, decreasing their importance at the books of banks absolutely helped do one of the vital so much harm and that unfold like an epidemic to different industries right here and around the globe. If it were not for FDIC coverage and exact truly-global cash being available in the market, we would all be status in bread traces. Im no longer protecting the fed. They made enormous errors. But I am announcing its no longer absolutely vain; it used to be simply an excessive amount of, too rapid. The ratios must were lessen and must have realistically mirrored inflationary measurements AND curiosity premiums. They did not. It used to be approach out of whack. What introduced that on used to be a plan, hatched 30 years in the past throughout the Carter Administration and banked on by means of Reagan, and later Clinton, to speed up credit score specifically in "low priced" housing some distance past what the economic climate would manage. Did they see it coming? Probably. Did they dare quit it? No. They had been afraid that if that they had, then what used to be available in the market might grow to be nugatory in a panic promote-off which, personally used to be certain to occur besides.
