There are two classes in this country:

• One class derives concentrated power from its concentrated wealth.


• The other class has power only in numbers, and that power is largely ineffective due to their inability to mobilize through organization.

The voters are disadvantaged.

1% of the U.S. population has 40% of all wealth.

1% of the U.S. population donates 83% of the billions ($2 billion of $2.4 billion in year 2000) to federal campaigns.

How can the remaining 99% of the U.S. population compete with that ?

No wonder government is FOR SALE. No wonder bought-and-paid-for politicians carry the water for their big-money-donor puppeteers.

But the fact is, voters are overlooking the one simple mechanism right under their very own noses to balance the power between government and The People (not merely shift power or strip all power from government to accomplish anything).

• Stop Repeat Offenders.


• Don't Re-Elect Them !

Vote Against The Incumbents.
Vati, Vati.

That's V-A-T-I, with a long 'A' and long 'I'.

The present state of America makes me sick. It
actually makes me nauseous to ponder how far this
once magnificent country has slipped into mediocrity.
When I was a young man, fifty years ago, you could
mention just about anything: And America was best at
that. Now we rarely lead the World in anything. We
are the World's Greatest Debtor Nation.

Back then, America enjoyed the best health care, the
best schools, and the best working conditions on
Earth, while we worked less hours, made more
money, and enjoyed a life style never before seen
upon this planet.

Our coal mines were producing more coal, our steel-
mills smelting more iron, and our assembly-lines led
the World in manufacturing beautiful automobiles,
refrigerators, wash-machines, dryers, and the hoard
of smaller appliances and gadgets (which eliminated
most of the drudgery of our daily chores) and
introduced us to the life-of-ease, we all now enjoy.

Now, American High School Graduates rank only
average (whether tested in Mathematics, World
History, Language, Science or any other critical field
of expertise) and compared with the test scores of
students from the other industrialized nations.

Our so-called health care system stinks, it is without
question, the most dysfunctional conglomeration of
nonsensical laws bureaucrats have ever assembled. It
assures illegal aliens and greedy politicians unlimited
free health care, while it renders millions of hard
working, honest citizens, incapable of obtaining any
kind of health insurance.

The new Social Security Drug Plan deducts a premium
for drug insurance, which you can bet will double
every year (for at least the next two years) from the
social security checks, of subscribers. A great many
drugs are not covered by this new plan, and it only
pays a maximum of about 70% on any drug, a lot less
on most. When the total drug bill (what the retiree and
the government pays) reaches $2250.00, Grandma
gets cut off, has to pay it all herself, until her total
drug bill reaches $3500.00. Obviously if Grandma can
not afford her drugs, her bill will never get to
$3500.00, so she will go without her drugs for the rest
of the year. Of course the monthly premium will still be
deducted from her Social Security Check. The drug
companies formulated this drug bill, got it enacted,
and only the drug companies are going to benefit from
it. (Our government gives them the premiums.) In
short, this Shaft Our Grandparents Bill is nothing but a
multi-million dollar windfall for the drug companies.

The above bill is sure not the worst medical bill our
elected officials have ever enacted. It just happens to
be the last that made me angry. Hundreds of anti-
consumer bills and amendments are on the books,
which benefit only the medical and or the drug
industries. Foreign competition to American Drug
Companies is nonexistent. If it was legitimized, we
could import drugs from reputable foreign drug
facilities, for as little as 10% of the extortion we are
now forced to pay our American Drug Companies.

Sad to say, but the Medical Cartels and Drug
Companies, with their unchallenged power, are not the
worst villains when it comes to manipulating our
government into giving them a license to gouge us.
The international oil and gas conglomerates, the
interstate utility companies, railroad cartels,
automobile and airplane manufacturing companies, the
cable companies, international shipping cartels and a
score of other business concerns all wield as much or
more power over our Congress, Senate and
President, than the drug companies do.

Big Business is our real enemy. Big Business
controls both our national and state governments, and
Big Business is the real reason America is losing
ground on all fronts, the reason America is slowly but
steadily slipping into mediocrity.

The companies mentioned above, along with a score
of Countries and a hoard of other mighty forces,
funnel billions of dollars annually into Washington, to
influence the Republican and Democratic Party
Leaders to legislate on their behalf.

The leaders of the Democratic and Republican
Parties, in the Congress and Senate, now have more
control over their subservient Congressman and
Senators, than a General has over his troops. The
political party Lords control the pac-money. And the
pac-money is what decides who will get elected, or
heaven forbid, smeared. The political Lords can't just
walk down on the floor and tell a congressman or
senator that they are fired. But they can have anyone
that fails to kowtow to the powers that be, ostracized,
rendered powerless, and by denying pac-money and
support, they can keep them from being re-elected.

It is crucial to America's future that we, the voters,
acknowledge that the political Lords are running this
country. When all the Republicans vote yea, and all
the Democrats vote nay, our Congressman and/or
Senators are not voting their conscience, and they
sure aren't voting the way we want them to vote.
They are voting exactly the way the Party Lords
have decreed they vote. And folks that is not
Democracy, that is flagrant Bureaucracy.

If we are going to declare war, prudence behooves
us to first learn all we can about our enemy.

Now, I just pulled what I have written here off the top
of my head. So if you find a mistake, don't get excited,
it is not that important, the overall theme of this
opinion is correct. And furthermore it is also correct
that with a minimum of research, anyone can ascertain
for themselves that this greatest of all nations, is
rapidly slipping into mediocrity.

And even the United States of America, the greatest
nation that ever existed, can fall from within, if we
continue to allow misguided politicians, to barter piece
after piece of good government away to any group
able and willing to pay for preferential treatment.

I have been telling people for years; when in doubt
always vati. But only in this last year has the urge to
really push this concept become obligatory.

Actually, voting against the incumbents is a very viable
method of straightening out what is wrong with
America. Many congressmen and senators win their
seats by very small margins, less than 5%. So if just
5% of the voters would vati, we would probably retire
near 25% of our Senators and Congressmen. And you
can bet we would get their attention. If as many voters
vati-ed, as voted for Ross Perot in 1992, we would
unseat about 75% of both houses. Very few politicians
win their seats by a 18.9% margin.

Folks this plan definitely has possibilities. Politician's
egos are all wrapped up in their positions. Actually the
only thing in the World, politicians love more than pac-
money, is their influential positions, their jobs. And on
the very day our legislators learn that their electorate is
actually threatening to vote them out of office, they are
going to be magically stricken with a burning desire to
legislate on behave of their constituency.

The only question left is, where are you going to place
your loyalty, to the Political Parties that you have been
blindly supporting, or to America? You can't serve two
masters, and be loyal to both. We have to take the
power away from the Party Lords, to the extent that it
allows our elected representatives to vote the way we
tell them to vote. Or in thirty years you are not going to
be able to tell the difference between Washington and
the corrupt Government of Mexico, or for that matter,
tell the difference between America and Mexico.

Actually, voting against the incumbents is a very viable
method of straightening out what is wrong with
America. Many congressmen and senators win their
seats by very small margins, less than 5%. So if just
5% of the voters would vati, we would probably retire
near 25% of our Senators and Congressmen. And you
can bet we would get their attention. If as many voters
vati-ed, as voted for Ross Perot in 1992, we would
unseat about 75% of both houses. Very few politicians
win their seats by a 18.9% margin.

Folks this plan definitely has possibilities. Politician's
egos are all wrapped up in their positions. Actually the
only thing in the World, politicians love more than pac-
money, is their influential positions, their jobs. And on
the very day our legislators learn that their electorate is
actually threatening to vote them out of office, they are
going to be magically stricken with a burning desire to
legislate on behave of their constituency.

The only question left is, where are you going to place
your loyalty, to the Political Parties that you have been
blindly supporting, or to America? You can't serve two
masters, and be loyal to both. We have to take the
power away from the Party Lords, to the extent that it
allows our elected representatives to vote the way we
tell them to vote. Or in thirty years you are not going to
be able to tell the difference between Washington and
the corrupt Government of Mexico, or for that matter,
tell the difference between America and Mexico.

I wrote this poem more than twenty years ago, and it
reverberates my sentiment now as vibrantly, as then.

VATI VATI

As Mighty Rome Fell, America Could Die.
Whether It Falls Or Not, Is Up To You And I.

I worried and stewed, but by-and-by,
came up with a plan, where you and I,
can put America the a road, to a brand-new high.
Just blame the politicians, get blood in your eye,
and vote against the incumbents. Vati, vati.

Now just voting won't do it, we've got to vati.
That's v, a, t, i, with a long "A", and long "I."
Vote Against The Incumbents, and you vati.
Things will never get better, until we vati.
Vote against the incumbents, Vati, vati.

There is no time, to just set and sigh.
America will fail, without you and I.
The time has come, we must do or die.
We must all vote, and we must vati.
Vote against the incumbents, Vati, vati.

Things won't just get better, by-and-by.
Unless the apathetic voters, you and I,
hit those poles with blood in our eye.
And not only vote, but wisely vati,
Vote against the incumbent. Vati, vati.

We must not buy, some political lie,
the America we love, is about to die.
Politicians no longer, serve you and I,
but all acquiesce, to the powers that buy.
Vote against the incumbents. Vati, vati.

The newly elected may want to serve you and I,
until that powerful pac-money catches their eye.
Then party loyalty becomes, their big lie.
As they vote with the Pac, for their piece of the pie.
Vote against the incumbents, Vati, vati.

Congressmen and Senators are nigh as apt to die,
as meet defeat at the poles, by you and I.
They know we'll vote for'em, they don't have to try.
America is declining, as democracy goes awry.
Vote against the incumbent. Vati, vati.

Waxing fat on the apathy, shown by you and I,
politicians became hogs, and Washington's a sty.
But we can change all that, in the blink of an eye,
if we just get off our apathy, and dutifully vati.
Vote against the incumbents. Vati, vati.

If just one out of twenty, of us would vati,
we*d get nigh a forth of that Washington sty.
Now that might he to few, to help you and I,
But we'd darn sure make, the rest of them shy.
Vote against the incumbents. Vati, vati.

And when; "Foul, foul," the politicians cry.
And charge that; "great careers will sadly die."
Stand up and look them, straight in the eye,
And vow; "Losing only makes the truly-great try."
Vote against the incumbents. Vati, vati.

From the County Coroner, to that Washington sty,
if you don't love the incumbent, always vati.
Help turn America toward, a brand-new high.
Teach your kids and your friends, they must vati.
Vote against the incumbents. Vati, vati.

If the state of America, makes you want to cry,
then help start a revolution, no one has to die.
Our party loyalty sent elections go so far awry.
And we can fix that error, just revolt and vati.
Vote against the incumbents. Vati, vati.

Part your 2nd and 3rd finger; that "v" means vati.
Send this to a friend, who you think will comply.
Let's all band together and give'em a black eye.
Vati, vati, and hearty bye-bye.

Grandpa Nate @ Rawlins, Wyoming.
[If you like this, copy it, and pass it on.]

I didn't just VOTE.
I VATIED.
And I feel great!
Vati = Vote against The Incumbents.

I speak to a deaf world. And I know not how to gain her ear. America is degenerating at a rapid pace. We are now over $9,210,000.000,000 in debt. That is over $30,275 for every man, woman and child in this country. It would take us over thirty years to pay off this debt, if we installed sane representatives in Washington, and strictly adhered to a balanced budget.

Our schools now rank 28th [28th that's pathetic,] in the World. We are in a war that we can't win, in the foreseeable future, and can't get out of. Our Government is broken. We are no longer functioning as a Democracy. We are operating as a Bureaucracy. The Party Lords tell our congressmen and senators how to vote. And Big Business, mostly International Conglomerates, give the Party Lords [which they buy with Pac-money] their orders.

That should be enough said: Because I don't really believe that there is anyone in America, who is old enough to vote, that does not know this country is in trouble.

Every day the Republican and Democratic Party Lords work at enacting bills, which cedes one international conglomerate after another some financial quid pro quo, for pac-money received. And nearly all concessions to Big Business prove to be detrimental to America's working people. Under the present system America will eventually have hungry masses without health care, millionaires, and no middle class. America, as we know her, is at this moment rapidly degenerating.

Changing out Republican for a Democratic, or Democratic for a Republican, or just replacing a Republican or Democratic with what is deemed a better member of their own party, will not help the situation. The new comer will quickly learn how the ball bounces in Washington, and vote the Party Line, as the Party Lords dictate, and business will continue as usual. And that is not Democracy, but Bureaucracy.

But all is not lost: America can still be saved. There is enough energy being wasted fighting our unresponsive system, for various causes, to fix America twice. This is still America, and we still get to vote. So let's act like a Democracy, band together, vati, [Vote Against The Incumbents.] and send enough Congressmen and Senators home, to get the attention of those who are left.

If just 10% of us would vati, we would get between 20 and 25% of the House and Senate. If 20% of us vati, we would send 75% of both Houses home. And you can bet: You'd have your Representative's ear.

It really doesn't matter whether you want to save the spotted owl, secure our borders, protect the giant redwoods, or the North Slope, save some swamp, fight Global Warming, or clean up a river, or whatever, all these things are going to cost Big Business money. And they are not going to allow you to get it done until, unless, we take back the reins of government. And none of you have the power to do that alone. So the answer is simple; whatever your cause, You Have Two choices; either fail, or band together and clean up Washington. Save America, and then you will have a hoard of accommodating representatives to help promote your cause. So start contacting other groups and get the ball rolling. You can do it, and it will work. But! Time is essential. So get at it. Good Luck, GrandpaNate
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