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#OWS is still a disorganized situation so I thought that if they had one driving point that tied all the causes together then it might help. This is it: Reform election laws that will put a cap on campaign expenditures. Make a cap amount that can be funded through campaign money from anywhere, including a grant or loan for people with no income, so that candidates may only spend just enough money that allows them to
1) make their voting record more widely available,
2) create a plan for foreign & domestic policy, and
3) make limited commercials and announcements.
The cap could be any amount, but it has to limit this stupid garbage on the air waves now. It's so easy to tell you that "I want to make America great again," but not tell me how or tell me without standing next to your public voting record.
It's obvious that Gingrich has not known a hard day's work for a long enough time that he thinks nothing of regularly spending money on jewelry that is worth more than the average annual wage of most Americans. This is just his personal life choices, by the way. His professional life shows that he worked as an independent consultant for one of the failing financial NGOs that helped perpetuate the financial bubble that led to the crash we find ourselves in today. He also nearly lost his bid for re-election for passing bad checks from the congressional bank account.
His other hypocrisies are listed on this site:
http://www.realchange.org/gingrich.htm?mid=534
We know that each candidate involved in the upcoming elections is a part of the system in one way or another. Herman Cain, who tries to play the part of the outsider of Washington, used to work for a regional branch of the Federal Reserve and was president of the National Restaurant Association. This trade organization boasts some the largest fast food franchises in the world and acts as a lobbying channel to reach legislators who can game the system for a kickback in one way or another. I really do not care about his sexual activity except that it was behind his wife's back. It shows a deceptive personality. Trying to get some is not a crime and he made a mistake talking to the wrong women. Take the subtle private room suggestions to a bar and it would be fine. He probably would have scored some bar skank ass.
The political process was explained to me very realistically in a subtly sweet way by Peter Nehr (R-FL), a representative in the Florida state house in 2008. Representative Nehr said that laws must be supported by other congressmen to be able to go to vote and pass for ratification. He went on to explain that if he wanted a bill supported, he would have to support a bill of another congressmen. I don't remember him saying that he would never sacrifice his principles or act unethically.
This is not a condemnation of Nehr's behavior or character, but it is a point to be made that ethics aren't something to be mentioned, but that is definitely not because it is a piece of assumed political criteria.
The crimes of congressmen is being dragged out in the mainstream media now with congressional members Bachus and Pelosi being questioned on their financial deals made before the financial collapse of 2008. Legally, these were not crimes, but that is only because these lawmakers said that their own actions were not crimes. Writing that sentence just made me feel stupider, but I think it's an important part of the paragraph.
To get back to my original point, we need election reform that will force candidates to stand by their past decisions, formulate actual concrete plans, prevent the unlimited dirty cash from special interests entering into elections, and put a stop to the cowardly commercials that are put forth by men who may not be called men and women who are a disgrace to their gender.
This all leads me to a final point; we need to run our communities. We need to run for political offices; we need to start businesses that can create jobs and influence citizens; we need to take power away from this system and create a new co-existing system. We can do it through capitalist means with real competition where failure is a freedom and getting bailed out is a charitable action made by friends and family, not an obligation forced upon us by criminals who wouldn't stop their shopping days at Tiffany's to help out the college students, factory workers, and farmers that are the gears that turn the economic machine.
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