Forum Post: Congress no longer represents the People
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 12, 2011, 8:24 p.m. EST by alwayzabull
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Do you agree or disagree? Please explain.
I am amased at how Occupy works. Would like to have your input on the movement to understaqnd it better, there is a question on financial accountability in it. I am asking you to answer 10 questions and I am happy to share results if you are interested. Please, take some time for it: Thank you! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Q3NF7QB
Agree. If we had an alternative mechanism for making decisions, such as a national referendum, we might have single payer national health insurance today.
New York Times: Jobs Measure Is Turned Back in Senate Test, 10/12/2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/us/politics/obamas-jobs-bill-senate-vote.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=jobs%20measure&st=cse
As the Senate moved toward a vote Tuesday, Mr. Reid made an accusation heard with increasing frequency from Democrats: Republicans were opposing the president’s jobs bill because, for political reasons, they wanted the economy to remain in bad shape. “Republicans think that if the economy improves, it might help President Obama,” Mr. Reid said. “So they root for the economy to fail and oppose every effort to improve it.”
The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, replied in kind. “Democrats have designed this bill to fail — they’ve designed their own bill to fail — in the hope that anyone who votes against it will look bad,” Mr. McConnell said. “This whole exercise is a charade that’s meant to give Democrats a political edge in an election that’s 13 months away.”
My comments: IS THIS ANY WAY TO RUN A GOVERNMENT ??? Democrats and Republicans posturing to look good for the next election…hey there, did you forget about US? “We the People” ???
Say what you will about corporations and protest them if you like, but there isn’t a business in the USA that would allow this kind of lack-of-decision making to go on in its executive ranks. There would be firings and reorganizations.
Do you want to fight FIRE with FIRE? Then “We the People” have to have a revolution that creates a new organizational structure, a new system of government that models the SUCCESS of corporations and have it report to, operated by for “We the People”.
http://www.JeffBlock2012.com We Have Permission to Change the System
There would be no controversy in congress if it were not trying! The results are rendered useless by politicing, special interests or the concerns about where to get the next buck so one can be re-elected and the cause is lost in the process!.
Yet the people keep voting for them.
Businesses didn't put them there. No amount of marketing or persuasion can sway your mind if you can make it up for yourself.
Exactly, but we need is a comprehensive strategy, and related candidate, that implements all our demands at the same time, and although I'm all in favor of taking down today's ineffective and inefficient Top 10% Management System of Business & Government, there's only one way to do it – by fighting bankers as bankers ourselves. Consequently, I have posted a 1-page Summary of the Strategic Legal Policies, Organizational Operating Structures, and Tactical Investment Procedures necessary to do this at:
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That is for sure.
Please check ChristopherABrown's pithy comments on that very issue:
http://occupywallst.org/forum/thomas-jefferson-is-on-our-side/#comment-76810
Excerpt: "Well, actually, technically, legally, CONGRESS IS IN VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION for not convening Convention delegates long ago. Another wiki piece that is verified. WIKI- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_to_propose_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution
I am amased at how Occupy works. Would like to have your input on the movement to understaqnd it better. I am asking you to answer 10 questions and I am happy to share results if you are interested. Please, take some time for it: Thank you! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Q3NF7QB
I just think their not very good at it. and to the last post, it has been shown historically that protecting jobs in certain areas prohibits the growth of new industries. It is a form of useless subsidy to the corporation for having those jobs. Once this happens, rarely do these industries ever become outmoded and outdated by more efficient means. If it isn't broke don't fix it. Even if it is really old and noisy, and dangerous, and dirty.
Senate republicans kill 2 million jobs