Forum Post: Compromise?
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 5, 2011, 9:16 p.m. EST by TrevorMnemonic
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Conservatives and Liberals. Let us put all of our differences aside and focus on what we all can agree on and what we all know is true.
The government has become corrupt on a lot of levels. Congress has passed laws that infringe on our rights in the constitution. One big example, the so called "Patriot Act." They have passed laws that make bribery legal. One big example: Lobbyists, corporate, and even union financing and their relation to drafting legislation and financing members of congress who voted to pass the bills. These supposed "people" can donate large amounts of funds... yet you and I, actual people, are limited in donation. This cannot be tolerated. This is the United States of America. We are not supposed to have corruption in our government. This is the United States of America. We are not supposed to have a decreasing dollar value. This is the United States of America. We are not supposed to be shipping industry overseas. This is the United States of America. We should not tolerate a government that no longer functions properly. We are supposed to be the best nation in the world. Let's act like it! Together we can uphold that American standard!
We need to reform Campaign Financing and make it illegal to accept corporate, organization, group, committee, and lobbyist funding. We need to add an amendment to the constitution declaring that only U.S. citizens on an individual level can donate to any type of campaign at a limit. I suggest making that limit 5 thousand dollars.
We can properly settle our differences after we get this corruption out of the government TOGETHER.
Have you read the 99% Declaration https://sites.google.com/site/the99percentdeclaration/ or the Declaration of Desparation? http://thedeclarationofdesperation.wordpress.com/
There is little or no difference if instead of corporations it is the wealthy individuals who own them who donate for campaigns. It can only be taxpayers money that should support political campaigns evenly.
There's a big difference between all other contributions and personal contributions though too. But I can see why you'd be against favored interest... so I can agree with that.
"Our ONLY objective should be to TAKE BACK OUR GOVERNMENT.
Once we have an UNCORRUPTED Democratic process, we can USE it to settle our other differences the way our Founding Fathers INTENDED. As long we we INSIST on arguing over our OTHER differences, we become FACTIONS with NO POWER... JUST the way the STATUS QUO likes us. That's why they MAKE UP these trivial "wedge" issues... to DIVIDE us !
I WANT MY GOVERNMENT BACK !"
-a guy named Rico