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Has our Government done us wrong

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  • The Fox
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Rest my case....


Hey great....since you've given up, the country can't be fixed, and you're resting your case, we will bid you adios and send you fond wishes that the door doesn't hit you in the ass on the way out. 

TP, I have to agree the system is broken and I don't think it can be fixed.  The only way to fix it is to get people in office who want to serve the people.  But it seem those of good moral character aren't willing to run, the only ones that do want to run are the ones wanting self promotion and to make themselves rich.  We need morals and character in our legislatures and not more of the same.  I don't know if it can happen.  Once in a great while one comes along that does give us hope, but they are so out-numbered it isn't funny.  From the greatest country in the world to a shameful remnant of itself in less than a hundred years.  What a shame.


I agree we need to get the money out of politics. And it is a shame the direction our country has taken.

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TP, I have to agree the system is broken and I don't think it can be fixed.  The only way to fix it is to get people in office who want to serve the people.  But it seem those of good moral character aren't willing to run, the only ones that do want to run are the ones wanting self promotion and to make themselves rich.  We need morals and character in our legislatures and not more of the same.  I don't know if it can happen.  Once in a great while one comes along that does give us hope, but they are so out-numbered it isn't funny.  From the greatest country in the world to a shameful remnant of itself in less than a hundred years.  What a shame.


I agree we need to get the money out of politics. And it is a shame the direction our country has taken.

 

There have been other times when I thought that the ordinary citizen had lost all say in government, but when it got bad enough, people woke up and responded and voted in a group who cared.
At least enough to get a majority on important votes.

I'm not that confident this time.   The Supreme Court has ruled that unlimited, undisclosed corporate money can be spent to influence the election.

I fear the voice of the ordinary person will be drowned out.

How is that corrected?

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You really should check your facts:

 

The Supreme Court decision applies to financing and production of political ads.  It especially voided the restriction on political ads by either corporations or unions in the last days of any campaign.  It does not OK "undisclosed corporate money" or union money.  The ruling stated that the government can still require full disclosure of those financing any advertisement in political campaigns.  Will they?

 

You should actually read the decision written up by Justice Kennedy.

 

And I'm pretty damn sure those last elections had more to do with the voters being fed up with the liberal agenda and policies than it had to do with corporate advertising!  At least that's what all the armchair quarterbacking and post election analyzing indicated.  At least now there is an antidote for the liberal TV and print media bias poisoning the system.

 

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