New Hampshire shares a huge problem with the other “fifty.” We do a lot of pretending. We pretend that our state legislators earn a weak sum of $100 dollars annually. This looks rather frugal. With the largest legislative body in America we make believe we cannot afford to pay these public servants more. But – lobbyist can slip them a few rewarding bucks here and there. So – whom do the public servants really end up serving?
The people cannot afford to pay the Governor’s Council $150 thousand dollars per year – but the lobbyist can. We supposedly can’t pay our state senators $100 thousand a year – but corporate America can slide it their way. Voters just can’t afford to up the state representative’s take home to $70 thousand bucks per year – but the PACs are happy to make an investment. We all do often wonder why Wall Street owns government from bottom to top. That answer is simple: Government is Law – and Law is Power – over you and I. And that power is for sale.
There is something wrong! There is something dramatically wrong with political systems from sea to shining sea. That wrong is that the people are not running their government. Nor are we benefiting from our government. Hell! The government, from its base upward to the All Seeing Eye, refuses to listen to its people. The president and vice president blatantly declare that they “don’t give a damd what the people want.” Court judges openly rule that they will not be influence by the mass’s demonstrations. The government is running us. And – sickly – this is happening while it can’t even run itself!!
The solution to this all is not so simple. But the time to correct is now – while the enemy is weak. And the enemy of each American’s freedom is Corporate America.
The people cannot afford to pay the Governor’s Council $150 thousand dollars per year – but the lobbyist can. We supposedly can’t pay our state senators $100 thousand a year – but corporate America can slide it their way. Voters just can’t afford to up the state representative’s take home to $70 thousand bucks per year – but the PACs are happy to make an investment. We all do often wonder why Wall Street owns government from bottom to top. That answer is simple: Government is Law – and Law is Power – over you and I. And that power is for sale.
There is something wrong! There is something dramatically wrong with political systems from sea to shining sea. That wrong is that the people are not running their government. Nor are we benefiting from our government. Hell! The government, from its base upward to the All Seeing Eye, refuses to listen to its people. The president and vice president blatantly declare that they “don’t give a damd what the people want.” Court judges openly rule that they will not be influence by the mass’s demonstrations. The government is running us. And – sickly – this is happening while it can’t even run itself!!
The solution to this all is not so simple. But the time to correct is now – while the enemy is weak. And the enemy of each American’s freedom is Corporate America.
Sweep Corporate Government out >
WMP
2 comments:
I only take issue with one thing from your latest post.
"Court judges openly rule that they will not be influence by the mass’s demonstrations"
Courts must never, ever fall to the whims of the masses. Judges are not elected officials for a reason -- their job is to interpret and apply the law without fear of public rebuke at the voting booth.
Our forefathers had the wisdom and the foresight to understand that to do otherwise would result in legal chaos, with laws changing based purely on societal mores. Depending on popular culture, what illegal 5 years ago may be legal now, and in another 5 years, may be illegal again. Imagine what would happen to the court system. Do you release prisoners when something becomes legal? Do you re-arrest them when it becomes illegal once again?
Imagine if we had a system in the last 8 years where the courts were beholden to the masses. It's not a stretch to believe that Americans would have been arrested and imprissoned for speaking out against the Iraq War and being "anti-American". Would we have seen dogmatic beliefs begin to take control of the courts? Maybe.
And, this does not even address the fact that slavery would not have ended when it did if the courts were subject to the whims of the public.
If anything, an independent liberal democratic (in the traditional meaning of the term: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_democracy) court system, along with an free press, may be among the most critical elements to maintain liberty.
Love,
Todd
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