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It is both rare and difficult to amend the Constitution, and there will be many vested interests against it, but perhaps it can be done. The need is there, though clearly so is the opposition. One thing that worries me is that the anti-abortionists might say, "Okay, if you want to define a person as a living being then we insist you specify that occurs from conception." Anti-immigrant groups may also try to use their wording to redefine citizenship through this. But if such distractions can be avoided, then I say go for it.
BIG unions represent BIG numbers of people.......it's called DEMOCRACY.........SINGLE billionaires represent themselves........it's called OLIGARCHY! Why would anyone except a billionaire want no one else to have a say in how life and the workplace jerk them around?
Until today , lies about Obama had a female co-worker of mine convinced to vote for Romney. That all changed when I told her about the Republican plan to defund planned parenthood. She was furious to say the least...... she has vowed to vote for Obama and the Democrats and agreed to tell her friends as well. It's easy to forget that many people are busy working massive hours just to survive and have little energy left to spend on political related info and thought.
Let's all spread the truth and be a part of the effort to make sure the Kochs waste massive sums of money on their favorite prostitutes, the corp. media!
$6 billion! Think what that could fix just in the United States! Imagine what it could do to fund education, research and development, feeding the hungry (I think it would just about cover that) and provide shelter for the homeless. What a shame. What a waste! And much of it is spent on lies, especially clear as we endure this expensiv e convention this week.
As for the guy with the hayseed in his teeth, corporations and businesses and conservative PACs like Rove's and American Enterprise and Crossroads outspend unions 15 to 1! Think about it. I wonder why so many people seem to think we'll go broke because of unions and overpaying public workers.
The populus is too brainwashed by the corporate media like the so-called fox news station to understand they are being robbed blind by the modern day copper barons.
Facts are annoying to Sheeples. Their bubble is impenetrable. Swoosh - there goes Truth.
I live in Ohio. A few of us think the fix has been in since1996. We weren't surprised by so many candidates this year and believe our state is being gutted by the 1%.
It is as obvious as a wart on your NOSE ! - The Lies - that is !
Which one? Soylent Green or Hamlet? Just kidding! Yes, Soylent Green was great!
The slaves in ancient Egypt had jobs too...question is what kind of jobs would we get under a Romney/Ryan administration? When someone says he wants a job it doesn't mean he wants minimum wage, no health benefits, 80 hour a week...no paid overtime, no vacation, no safe workplace. And with Romney/Ryan you would be lucky to even get that as they will more than likely ship all jobs overseas. They have a reputation for destroying jobs...you know?
And I'd sure love to wait 2 years for a hip operation, if I needed one, if the alternative was not to get one at all. And that is the only reality for most of the people in the US who can't afford the very risky health insurance companies who often will try to blame the hip problem on some pre-existing condition. Then you would not only have wasted all of your money on those very, very expensive monthly premiums to the insurance companies but you also would have to pay for the entire hip operation, anyway....not cheap and way beyond the means of most people. So, you are very lucky to have to wait just 2 years for a hip operation.
Since I don't drink or smoke...I am not worried about the prices of those non-necessities. And since those two things cause more health-related issues...it is a good thing that they are so costly...it helps keep people healthy. I'd like to see the prices of those two non-necessities skyrocket to absolutely unaffordable by everybody.
But as food and oil prices will soon shoot up to totally unaffordable to many (gas: $15/gal; food: $200+/bag) by April of next year we may have a totally unrecognizable country by then.
"... food prices have a direct link to the tipping points of unrest and upheaval.
The authors also criticize the deregulation of commodities markets in the US as contibuting to the rise in food prices.
The authors issued a stern warning that if food prices remain high, disturbances will continue. Averting further crises this year and next requires quick and concerted action by policy makers, they added."
http://necsi.edu/research/social/foodcrises.html
I know every time I go food shopping, or fill up at a gas station, I get very "unrestfull"... in my mind, anyway...which migrates to my lips with something very unhumbling to say about the Wall Street bandits, who, through their speculation, drives up the prices. But, as history shows most other people, who may be hurting a great deal more, may translate that into physical actions. And it will likely happen by at least the first quarter of 2013.
Where have all of you been for the past two years, including Thom and his staff. I have been trying to get people involved in the Popular Amendment Movement and the two proposed constitutional amendments posted at www.faircampaignreform.us since early August 2010. If you haven't been to the website to get involved, then do it today so that we can try to remedy this disaster before the 2014/2016 elections.
Petition for US Constitutional Amendment For Election Reform
We, the undersigned US citizens, duly registered voters in our respective states/territories, do hereby petition for our state to approve the following amendment to the United States Constitution by the method noted below.
Election Reform:
1. Abolish the Electoral College (Repeal Amendment 12)
2. ONE NATIONAL primary date to be held on the Tuesday eight (8) weeks prior to the General Election day for Congressional offices and for the President. Candidate petitions must be filed with the local/state elections boards 60 days prior to the Primary Election date. Federal election petitions shall be uniform in every state and shall include a “contract with the voters” that spells out clearly what that candidate stands for on all issues that they may have to address in elected office. They shall be held accountable in court for breach of that contract if elected and any/all terms are not met.
3. NO campaigning allowed for any elective federal office more than 60 days prior to the National Primary Date.
4. NO campaign contribution shall be donated to any candidate of more than $200 from an individual or $500 maximum from a family (spouses/children living in the same household.) No donations shall be made to a candidate more than sixty days prior to the primary date. No candidate shall contribute from their own funds more than 60% of the total donations from other private individuals.
5. NO campaign contribution from any PAC, corporation, union, non-profit organization, special interest group, etc. shall be allowed for any elected federal office.
6. NO third party campaigning (separate PAC ads, corporate ads, etc.) for/against any candidate shall be allowed at any time during or before the election season.
7. NO party conventions shall be held to select the presidential candidates. The selection must be done at the ballot box in the primary election.
8. The One Man/One Vote Supreme Court ruling shall be enforced by this Amendment, namely that NO federal candidate selection shall be by any means other than the ballot box on Primary/General Election Dates.
9. National Party Organizations shall NOT raise money for or donate to specific candidates of their party prior to the dates outlined above.
10. PAC’s shall NOT be granted tax-exempt status by the IRS, and any non-profit organization who uses their funding for political purposes shall lose their tax-exempt status.
11. All lobbyists shall be outlawed from influencing Congress at all times.
This amendment shall be approved ONLY by State Constitutional Conventions to be called within 90 days of this petition being submmitted to a state’s Secretary of State. A minimum of 25% of the registered voters in each state shall be required to further this petition to the respective Secretary of State.
Name Signature State Address
Petition for US Constitutional Amendment For Congressional Term Limits
We, the undersigned US citizens, duly registered voters in our respective states/territories, do hereby petition for our state to approve the following amendment to the United States Constitution by the method noted below.
Term Limits for Congress:
1. Representatives to Congress shall serve no more than two two-year terms in the House.
2. Senators shall be elected to no more than two six year terms in the Senate.
3. No elected official shall serve more than six terms in office in any combined elected offices (House/Senate/Presidency.)
This amendment shall be approved ONLY by State Constitutional Conventions to be called within 90 days of this petition being submmitted to a state’s Secretary of State. A minimum of 25% of the registered voters in each state shall be required to further this petition to the respective Secretary of State.
Name Signature State Address
and what is, is in fact in the moment of isness and with each dropping sand grain what is bcomes what was...
man i love that movie!
Only loan sharks make it possible to spend more than a person has. How can you spend more than you have if you don't have it to begin with unless you borrow it...and how is it that the system has been gamed...through deregulation...to get people so indebted that they will lose everything that they may have earned, including the equity in their defaulted houses.
This sinister unregulated capitalist "free market" system uses psychology experts in marketing to get people to buy in to the idea that they need things they really don't need and to pay way more than they can afford for those things.
Some people are not smart enough and/or educated enough to see through this charade or the intricacies of finance, investment, mortgage lending, legalese fine print and they are victimized by those who are smarter. And this is the reason why we need a government that looks after and protects the interests of the majority of people and not help those rapacious capitalist wolves unfairly exploit them.
Many smart people, who already have lots of money, know that they don't know everything and have the ability (money) to buy the expert paid opinions of others...like lawyers or financial advisers. Someone struggling to make ends meet, who are propagandized into believing (through commercials, etc) that they have the ability to rise above their means, their last chance to take advantage of the promises (lies) the capitalist, rapacious, wolves entrap them with, will get baited into entering into legal agreements that eventually leaves them worse off than they would have been had they not fallen for the bait.
And even some very smart people get caught in the trap. People can be brilliant in some things and just plain stupid in others. Commercialism, propaganda, and hidden or embedded messages in movies and other media help to get people to react in ways that may result in damaging ones future interests....just to be called names like "free-loader" by conservative simpletons who have not yet felt the pangs of reality yet.
At first, they shipped the relatively unskilled jobs overseas...and they told us that it lets our country "move up" to more highly skilled jobs. Then they shipped the more highly skilled jobs overseas...and they told us it lets our country "move up" to more professional jobs. Then they shipped the more professional jobs overseas...and they told us it lets out country "move up"...now the only thing left is a few scamster Wall Street speculators who drive up prices on everything from oil to food...and at the bottom is a whole nation of unemployed people who are struggling to pay for that food and oil. It went down just as it did in the mortgage market...where they told us we should "move up" into bigger and more expensive houses...because there is no where else the market will go but up. The ever expanding bubble! Pop! The ever expanding bubble! Pop!
like i said welcome back to the dark ages...
Our corporate rate is 15% but personally we can pay up to 48%. We don't have national health care like your Government is proposing it is provincal (state) so I am lucky I live in Alberta. I some areas of Canada you can wait up to 2 years for a hip operation. I can't beleive you guys want this. If you think health care is expensive now wait until its free. My Canadian whiskey is $58 here and only $12 in Scottsdale, AZ (Canadian made) . You if you smoke take out a mortagage on your house.
By the way our Conservative government is making massive cuts to all government departments and has an action plan that replaced all the jobs we lost a few years ago. Maybe the Romney/Ryan are on the right track. You could all have jobs too.
Corp media only concern is Max Profits Yes its sad and un professional .
Well Said
Labor Unions have been dying for years thanks to 30 yrs of Reagan Walker GOP devious efforts Union money is scant when compared to secret money unleashed by Citizens United . You like millions have been misinformed likely by Fox Hannity Rush & 100's of Rush wannbees on con talk radio. Did you know labor unions fought hard for fair pay and benefits- safe work place - child labor laws, equal pay - vacation pay- unemployment -sick pay and more Are you ready to give all that up Are women ready to let GOP ban birth control- tell us how to plan our families- tell us what the real meaning of rape is ? If so Vote for MITT / RYAN
Gordon Gekko & Eddie Munster
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Obama & Biden
The 13th Commandment? Thall Shall Not Bare Factual Inaccuracies
The Earth receives about 174,000,000 gigawatts of sunlight. Obviously, we couldn't harness a decent fraction of that without seriously altering the face fo the planet.
David Mamet wrote in his screen play "State and Main" that "it's not lying; it's a gift for fiction."
"Fealty" rhymes with "realty".
Dinesh D'Souza remains the purveyor of the lowest . . . There are no kind words . . . Seeking to embody the "Douchetastic" is a waste of human genetic material.