jc100
join:2002-04-10
| reply to SLD
Re: Told you so
Bush, Obama, etc are politicians. You actually put stock in what they say? Thats cute. Both suck. One side more so than the other with their ignorance and bigotry. However, both parties are absolutely useless. Obama could look me in the eye and promise me the sun, moon, and the starts. I wouldn't believe the first word out of his mouth. Maybe he does think he can make a difference. However, even if he was the best man in the world (which once again I doubt), he has lobbyists with big pockets to corrupt bills. Like any good politician, he will just tout the positives, and ignore the pork stuck into them. Legislation today is never clear cut. There are always tons of riders / addendums on ever bill these days. A bill that increases education might also:
Give money tot he NRA
Give money to faith based
Build 10 zoos
Pave roads
etc
With lobbyists hard at work buying our Democracy, few bills (if any) stay within their original intent. The U.S. is far from a democracy. We might "elect" our officials, but lobbyists are the ones who end up having the final say on the laws. The deeper their pockets, the more of them you get to write. Hence, we should be electing them, over the people who smile at us during campaigning season, and promise us everything and give nothing.
So will we see 100/20 universally any time soon? Doubtful. Matter of fact, we shouldn't be given PRIVATE COMPANIES a single penny. Hence the term private. I don't own them. I shouldn't be footing the bill for bad management. This 700 billion and 800 billion should be going STRAIGHT TO OUR POCKETS. IE ab out 10,000 dollars per person. 150 million working and 1.5 trillion total. You want to boost our economy. Give it to people who are going to pay bills and hoard the rest. IE there you go banks, here's an injection of money as people toss it into their savings.
Anyway, AS MUCH AS I WOULD LOVE US to be a wired nation (like sweden, japan, korea), our government is NOT SMART ENOUGH to see the money is used properly that it hands out. Rather than wasted on empty promises, just give it back to us.
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