I truly believe that until this country does away with political parties...we're screwed. Way too much corruption in office these days. If our politicians were in office "for THE people" instead of "for A FEW people" we'd be much better off. Heck, I'm 45 yrs old and I still don't think I'm a Dem or Rep.......lol....Does "common sense" have a political party? Or is that the biggest Oxymoron known to man?
First of all, you can't do a CCC camp anymore because if we did, some group would say that their rights are infringed because the Government work group gets to play by sub pay rules and therefore those who do whatever it is that the CCC made, cleared or provided for, would claim it to be unfair competition. No kidding this is why these things ended. Prisoners can't produce license plates because they infringe upon some other companies rights.
At the heart of this problem is that people don't think before they vote. They listen to rhetoric vote personality or listen to negative campaign crap and get swayed by those things that they should surely not be.
We could end this issue of no-brainer voting by asking every single voter to answer one question before they are allowed to vote:
A) what are the 3 branches of government?
If you can't answer that question...you can't vote. (oh, and the question will be printed in English and the answer needs to be written in English too, because it IS the official American language. No cheat sheets carried into the registration either.)
Finally, we need to rely less on our "elected" bodies who have become less than statesmen, and more individuals on a mission to get re-elected and filling campaign coffers. We nullify that issue where possible by by-passing them completely and putting forward referendums straight to the eligible voters.
Now if we did this, do you think we would be spending more money than we take in so that our grand-kids will be stuck holding the bag?
Do you think politicians would be exempt from social security with their own pensions? Do you think that with all the technology we have, we can't keep secure a boarder completely?
Do you really think we would reward those who smuggle dope in this country and get off on some obscure fact like they are not U.S. citizens and therefore only get a one way ticket back home for a nice vacation?
We are like lemmings we allow ourselves to be hoodwinked into believing "this election will be different" and politicians who retire can leave with millions of campaign contributions because that is the law and they can.
We have long ago forgotten about how those founding fathers took bold steps to create this country and some laid down their very lives so that we can exercise our rights to vote to enjoy life and to pursue happiness. In short we stand by, complain, as we P___s it all away.
And that my friends is the biggest crime of them all.
