Life. Society. Politics. Economy. Personality.
Everything looks as if it has taken the wrong path. What to do?
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- greedshallperish2012
- Date Created: 07.29.08
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Yes, DW I was, and I see what you mean now too.
As far as "giving the American People their votes that count back," that means taking away the delegates, super delegates, and the electoral college votes. That's what takes the meaning out of your votes, along with outside influence outside the USA. We gave the politicians too much power and now they're abusing it in a lot of different ways, plus instead of serving the American taxpayer, they are ripping off the American taxpayer.
For example, why is Obama outside the US drumming up business, when he should be here in the states worrying about his campaign and the people who may or may not vote for him? Same with McCain...Until they're in office, they should really worry about their campaigns, and nothing more, and the jobs they have also.
Why did Berlin throw a concert for Obama? I still don't get that one. Is he pre-selected to be President already?
I'm using the term "corporate capitalism" because it is more descriptive about where my criticism lies. For a public corporation, the stockholders run the show...the big ones, anyway. But it doesn't have to be a stockholder. If the corporation is private, it could be organized in a number of ways.
The point here, however, is that a corporation answers only to those who actually own the corporation.
So the end of that very simple equation is leads us to the understanding that capitalism consistently works against the best interests of everyone. Without government regulation, they'd still be selling triss pajamas, lead lollipops, asbestos rich cotton candy, who knows. All that polluting that capitalists do. The only thing that stops them is regulation. Regulation that Republicans repeatedly oppose.
This gets complicated from here, and I have some recommendations for some good books about socialism.
What does "give the American people their votes back" mean? I assume you're referring to the breakdown in the integrity of our voting infrastructure. I agree, and the best way to fix it is to halt any plans to "modernize" the system any further. We need as low tech and cheap as possible. No more big contracts to companies that make voting machines, like Diebold, whose owners are big Bush fans.
I am a town meeting member, and I hear proposals all the time for getting a swanky, new, high tech voting machine. So expensive is this fucking thing that towns don't buy them, they rent them. Meanwhile, we already have booths, a ballot counter and vote recorder for felt tip pen ballots. The equipment is cheap and easy to replace, and the results have never been questioned. Not only that, the mostly elderly people who work the polls on election day understand the system. Electronics systems are expensive, and it's easy for people to fuck with them.
I hope you were talking about elections, PapaJack55, or I really made an ass out of myself, talking about elections.
That's been my whole ideal from the get go, or beginning, DW. Learn from our past mistakes, but make major revolutionary changes in a lot of things, not just corporate businesses or as we call it now, capitalism. In all honesty DW, these big corporations aren't even worried about the shareholders anymore. They're just worried about making a huge profit to offset the shareholders.
We need to do it with the People, not just businesses, media, and government. We have to start off by giving the American People their votes back, then work on getting this country back into shape bit by bit. It will take about 20-30 years to even really see a huge difference but we will see a pretty good sized difference in our life time.
Lower taxes on the middle income and lower income, and raise taxes on the higher to highest incomes.
We don't have to start over. We have too much to learn from the past. But we do need to consider making some revolutionary changes. But we all have a different set of reasons for this. For me, I see the problem as being capitalism. Capitalism consist of corporations. These corporations have a prime directive; make money for the stockholders.
That put the goals of the corporation at odds with the interests of everyone else.
Capitalism also erodes democracy.
But don't start at the beginning. There are a lot of people with good ideas, let's just take over from here. Go about the business of transformation.
them board people are funny
hehehe
and for the simple minded, no, its not about board meetings and setting stuff on fire.
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