Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Tin foil helmets and rubber spears to fight the upper class

Results of various polls these last few weeks, some are overwhelming, some are a mere 51% here are the publics positions on various issues in the US.  And for most of these items the public is willing to pay more for the product or in taxes to have it, yet the GOP blocks these things on behalf of their capitalist owners.

When polled, we want: higher milage lower polluting vehicles, more bus/train service, reduced noise in cities and on the job, increased energy efficient building standards, cleaner air, cleaner water, removal of dangerous yard and farm chemicals, energy from solar/wind/thermal and an end to coal power plants, stronger banking laws and prosecutions, stronger regulations on markets, outlaw payday loan companies, increase testing of food/restaurants, enforcement of consumer and product safety laws, get corporations out of the process at FDA, harsh laws on lobbyist access/support/legislative input to government and elected officials, protection for wildlife, increase in tax on the richest/corporations, increase in education at all levels, restore cuts that punished the poor, stop blocking judge appointments, the senate and congress should be exempted from any government pension plan and buy their own insurance.

There are very few outside the GOP hard core who are against these things, yet this is the norm of the day with the GOP and a few of the running scared Dems.

Here is my new law for lobbying:  lobbying (or having a sibling-spouse-child-parent lobbyist) disqualifies you from ever holding any government job, or I would compromise at 10 years after ceasing and being estranged from the firms and key people represented.  Also one would be forbidden to lobby for 10 years after leaving any government job or elected position or the military if at a rank above E7 (a high level sergeant).  Senators and Congress should not have government pension but plan their own  401K or savings account, Senators and Congress should have to work in DC 4 full days a week.  Lobbyist should have to enter/exit any government building by the citizen/tourist door and stand in line.  No staff member can be on "loan or receive value, promise or retainer from outside government and must be on the Senator or Congress staff's payroll.

Class warfare?  Yep,  you see I am jealous beause I can't afford to buy a congressmen, or even the city council.  But the capitalist upper class can.  I can't afford to run lies on TV, secretly, to smear the minorities and unemployed,  or cause doubts about science.  I don't even make enough money to pay the millionaires lower tax rate.  All I cling to is a little hope and my class warfare fantasy.

2 comments:

  1. Fringe,
    Eatin them peyote buttons again? Darrel, Washington is about all about money. And, just like in my letter to the Star - the defense industry will turn the on Capitol Hill fucking green with cash to prevent those mandatory DOD cuts. Those in Congress have to vote laws in to ban lobbying. Tha would be like a bunch of friggin alkies votin for reenacting Prohibition.
    It ain't gonna happen unless We The People make it happen one congressional district at a time.
    And, that is demanding that those elected pledge to never take a dime from a lobbyist nor a political action committee, corporation, or individual and to swear to solely represent We The People.
    I am going to ask both the Republican and Democatic candidate for Congress in the 8th Congressional District of Indiana to sign that pledge. I would sign such a pledge without hesitation.

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