Corruption Steals More Taxpayer Millions
Tax payers are being ripped off in the billions by incompetent and deceptive politicians in cahoots with deceptive private contractors. In this ongoing saga of corruption and abuse of taxpayers, the Washington Post sheds light on yet another story in which Sun Microsystems is alleged to have bilked tax payers out of millions of dollars under the blind eye of politicians and staffers.
We know that far more than 9 billion tax payer dollars have been lost to mis-management and corruption by private interests in Iraq. The credit industry is finding ways to suckle tax payer dollars to offset the sub-prime mortgage industry deceptive practices and now growing losses. Lobbyists who insure legislation that would solve American problems is so compromised that the problems linger without solution, have cost American tax payers trillions.
The illegal immigration legislation of the late 1980's was a case in point, in which special wealthy interests insured that the solution was no solution, but, merely a kicking of the can down the road to today, where we find the problem has grown to epic proportions. And the lobbyists for cheap illegal immigrant labor have their hands all over this new Senate Bill as evidenced by the fact that the bill contemplates a border barrier of only 570 miles along a 2000 mile border. This leaves 3/4 of the border wide open to insure illegal immigrant labor is accessible by corporate construction and agricultural firms who hired the lobbyists to force a water downed, compromised illegal immigration bill.
If this so called comprehensive illegal immigration bill passes, it will cost American tax payers more than a quarter trillion dollars, and not solve the
problem. But, the lobbying industries will profit from not solving the problem, and that is what counts. It counts, because those lobbyists have the money to bribe and blackmail incumbent politicians seeking reelection in 2008 and 2010 and who will need the lobbyists campaign contributions and backing to insure reelection.
The politicians win, the profiteers win, and the tax payers lose by being forced to pay for yet another non-solution to a costly American problem, yet one more time. It must stop. But, it can only be stopped by voters who take it upon themselves to vote for challengers against incumbents, repeatedly, election after election, until the challengers themselves recognize their is nothing to be gained by accepting the campaign bribes and blackmail of wealthy special interests.
Only then will America begin to solve her problems on a permanent basis by passing laws which remove legal bribery and blackmail by wealthy special interests from our halls of government, and criminalize such activity with stiff and mandatory sentencing for the lobbyist, their corporate or individual sponsor, and the politicians involved. That is a day to hope for, work for, and teach our children to live for. A day when government in America is restored to one of the people, by the people, and for the people, as opposed to the current system of being of the lobbyists, by the lobbyists, and for the lobbyist special wealthy interests.
Lobbying was intended to be a matter of writing or phoning a politician to express one's view or interest. It was never intended to be a sophisticated blackmail and bribery system in which politician's careers were bought and sold on the lobbyist open market place, made legal and protected by corrupt laws that steal the democracy out of our democratic republic.
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URGENT: PARTICIPATE FOR A THIRD POLITICAL PARTY, NOW !!
REALIZE WE ARE LIVING UNDER TYRANNY SINCE 2000 !!
"Amidst all this violence and bloodshed" in Iraq, "is the sacrifice worth it?
Republican and Democrat congress alike know and could care less that the sacrifice is being borne overwhelmingly by lower-income whites, Hispanics and African-Americans who comprise the bulk of the casualties? Nor do they address 655,000
civilian Iraq's killed in this corrupt war.
To understate the case, neither the Democratic Party nor Republican Party seem to be serving the people of the United States as well as they could. This, too, might be a blessing because maybe it is now time for a legitimate centrist third party to be formed to take back our government from polarized politics, special interests, corrupt lobbyists and some of the worst elements of American society.
Don't forget the lesson of Jesse Ventura's election as governor in Minnesota. Many people there did not want the Republican and Democrat professional politicians that also ran, with their traditional positions, backers and fund-raising machines.Are we sick of the corruption, lobbyist,
foreign influence, organized crime, religious Leaders agenda in government affairs.(Most are )
It is now time for a third party because both existing major parties seem to be run by people with their own rigid and sometimes extreme agendas and values. Agendas and values that do not necessarily represent the views of mainstream Americans. A polarization seems to have taken place on many issues. Two polarized views on many social, moral, psychological and spiritual levels split the discussion and rob the centrist middle ground, where most Americans stand..
We can point to many officeholders, career politicians and people behind the scenes and see that there is a dark side to both major parties. There seems to be financial corruption, political corruption, even moral and spiritual corruption in both parties.
Each day it is more apparent that another political party is needed for the 2008 presidential and congressional elections. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have done anything to eliminate ``Government for Sale'' lobbying and the PAC system. America has been sold out, look at the
recent bills on the WAR and IMMIGRATION.
No mention is made by either party of the $9 trillion national debt which consumes more and more tax dollars in interest every year, even if we succeeded in having a balanced budget. The gap in income is becoming wider between the ``corporate elite'' and the vast majority of working men and women. Good jobs are being lost daily. The Wall Street Journal reports a new corporate layoff in almost every issue. It seems like government has been "outsourced" to a foreign lobby (AIPAC).
Free trade is a joke and has resulted in the loss of thousands of jobs. Taxpayer money is used to compensate for bad loans by global bankers to corrupt foreign governments.
Neither party is capable of dealing with these problems, nor do they care to. The time has come for another party dedicated to government by and for the people. We may not have another chance.
The larger specialty groups like Veterans Organizations, Seniors Organizations, etc. that are treated like meat to be processed through the grinder, before and after their usefulness was done, need to remember that the reason they fought/worked was to save the rights and liberties of The People of America and their children. Instead, they dig for scraps of which they fought, from the tables of lying tyrants eating our peoples rightly deserved sustenance. There will not be rights for individuals, groups or segments until there are rights for all.
What Are You Waiting On? America needs you now. The Constitution needs you now. Our rights and liberties as free men, women and children of God/nature and evolution need you now.
Even a two party Constitutionally compatible unity would make news overseas, our only source of real news for the most part. Let me say "in the view from New Orleans" one wonders if there is going to be a 2008 election, even a corrupt one, let alone a verified true election process. The 3rd parties and affiliates need to unite now. Or, they and we will be damned to tyranny.
The sad reality, it has already occured, the 2000, and 2004 presidential elections were just that, we have been damned to tyranny for the last seven years. This country's righteous heritage is lost to all.
The only "deal breaker" issues should be those that infringe upon our rights and liberties as granted by the "historical background" interpretation of the Constitution which includes our rights inherent as free men, women and children.
The Constitution was the most empowering document the founders could muster in their best effort from the best minds of the time, perhaps in all time, regarding liberty and government. It has been called, generation upon generation throughout the world, the gold standard of rights and freedom for the people and their protection from the government. Yet, our current government of neo-cons, media and even some individuals call it outdated, irrelevant to current times, "a living constitution", and various other false interpretations and claims, and now swear their oaths of office to this bastardized constitution.
There is only one true interpretation of the Constitution, the historical background interpretation. The founders also made sure to leave hundreds upon hundreds of quotes and documents that readily show the intent of the text.
WHO ?? I THINK AL GORE AND RALPH NADER SHOULD LEAD A THIRD PARTY. THE GREEN PARTY.
A CONTRACT WITH THE "AMERICAN" PEOPLE ON ALL ISSUES, SIGNED AND SEALED.
Posted by: RONALD L. WALDRON | May 28, 2007 1:07 PM
Ronald, I don't think all is lost. Just misplaced in the hands of special interests. There are many signs that more politicians and definitely the American people are getting ready to take some serious measures to divorce the money of special interests and the politician's reelection campaigns.
Republicans, thought late to the plate, are getting religion on the earmarks issue. More Republicans and Democrats in the Congress are rattling cages regarding campaign financing. Obama is taking on the lobbyists.
These are all encouraging signs that all may not be lost, yet.
Posted by: G. Peoples | June 23, 2007 5:37 PM