Why Tea Parties? - Because Two Parties Isn't Working
To The Editor, Blubari.com
I've been saying for quite a while that it's time to throw the tea into the harbor again... the Washington, DC "Old Boy" system is so firmly entrenched that it really doesn't make any difference which Party is in control, things still continue to go down the tubes regardless!
With lobbyists running around with Carte Blanche freedom...and, despite BO's promises to pull in the reins on them, there are no signs that anything is really chaning! Unfortunately, they are the "legal?" means by which Corporate America and, even worse, foreign big business, can effectively BUY the US Government! Think about it, the lobbyists make LARGE "Campaign Contributions" to our elected officials...using the loop-hole that all "Campaign Contribution" funds which go unused become the property of the receiver thereof. Accordingly, that's why NAFTA is a uni-directional Agreement. It enables Corporate America to relocate all their manufacturing facilities outside of the US and thus enables them to further maximize their profits by taking advantage of cheap, virtually slave, labor. BUT (thanks to the lobbyists) can American's buy their prescription medications FROM Canada, a NAFTA member, at significantly less cost for the same medications than what they cost us here? NO... of course not...because the lobbists from the pharmaceutical companies have used their $$$ influence to make that illegal. So, who gets the shaft? Yup, you & I, and all the rest of the American tax-paying Citizens! The exorbitant, and ever increasing, cost of Insurance Premiums is being allowed to run unchecked by the gov't with the burden falling upon the rank & file American. It's OK with our elected officials—they're immune because they've got their own gov't-backed benefits programs for life after they get elected. So, effectively, the US Government—which is defined to be "...Of the People, By the People and For the People—is actually a bunch of CRAP! We're being SCHMOOZED into thinking that we're able to control our gov't by being allowed to vote, but regardless of whom we elect...NOTHING CHANGES, or at least not Positively so?
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Anyone who doesn't believe that Big Business controls our gov't is in dire need of a Reality Check! So, as stated earlier, it's time to throw the tea in the harbor, pull the handle on the Washington, DC, toilet and flush 'em all right down into the sewer. Let's elect a completely new contingent of gov't officials who are truly focused on what's in the best interests of the American Citizen—not just the miniscule handful which unfortunately are able to legislate and control what happens to the rest of us!
Subsequently, we need to make all attempts by lobbists to BUY what is in the BEST INTERESTS of those they represent guilty of attempting to bribe government officials. Make that a Capital Offense with the penalty for which is to be immediately taken out, lined up against the wall and SHOT so that the Lawyers and Judges can't drag out their sentences for years in the legal system at the tax-payer's expense! After one or two examples, that should put a stop to Lobbiest's in real short order, eh? OK, 'nuf said... I'll relinquish the Soap Box to the next person with an opinion! - Bob in Ohio
