1. Direct votes from the people. The banishment of the electoral college. The people will vote directly through a system they can access with their social security numbers. The people, if they are above the age of 21, shall be permitted to vote on all bills, laws and candidates as effect their state and country.
2. Complete disbanding and restructuring of all three branches of government.
3. Campaigning reform.
4. Changing the rules for electing representatives.
5. Eight year term limits for representatives.
6. A representative should be chosen that is of the same profession as the majority of their constituents. No longer shall lawyers unfairly monopolize seats of power in government. In a democratic state it is not fair that nearly all seats of representation be held by lawyers. This should only be the case if 51% of the population in an area being represented are lawyers.
7. Direct votes on all matters of state and federal monies collected whereby each citizen shall vote and be able to follow where their money is going. Complete and utter transparency in all matters of money collected for and used in the running and defense of the state and country.
8. Wall street and all forms of money gambling and speculation except those voted on to exist for the purpose of recreation shall be abolished.
9. Special interests shall no longer have any influence and power over our government. The only interest that shall be considered is what is in the best interest of the states that comprise the union and the union itself.
10. A one time percentage tax shall be imposed to pay off the national debt.
11. There will be a complete overhauling of the following groups:
Lawyers, the food, drug and health industries.
12. The people will have a real say in the making of all decisions which affect their lives.
I realize these ideas are far from perfect and anyone can raise major objections to nearly all the points I have made. It is the ideals I want you to realize here. The majority of the people that make up this country are not career politicians, wall street businessmen, lawyers or super wealthy. Yet these groups have the most say and power over our lives, our laws and have the most power in our government.
This is simply not democracy.
Our country was not built on the ideas of capitalism, although it has almost collapsed twice due to those ideas. No, our country was founded on the principles of democracy. The silent majority, the working class, the majority of "we the people" must unite. We can not let our country be taken over, run and legislated by a wealthy and powerful minority which has it's own interests and not the interest of the country as a whole in mind.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Monday, July 4, 2011
More on the problems and solutions.
Never in our life times or our parents lifetimes have we seen such anti middle class propaganda being accepted by the majority of Americans. One has only to look into what is going on in Wisconsin to see what I am talking about. Collective bargaining is one of the middle classes' few real powers. It is one of our few protections against exploitation. One of our few protections from the ultra-wealthy, from big business. Wall Street, mega-corporations and career politicians want the majority of us to believe that the economic crisis we are dealing with is the result of teacher/police/autoworkers/electricians/firefighter pensions, salaries and benefits.
The reality is that we are in an economic crisis because of the greed, corruption and power lust of wall street, mega corporations and career politicians. This unholy trinity has been working to protect itself and it's interests for over thirty years now and if this continues, this triad will destroy the country. We are seeing the results of this thirty year power struggle play out now. The price of tobacco and gas have quadrupled over the past decade. Isn't it funny how those two things are indispensable to it's users. People who drive need gas and people who are addicted to tobacco need cigarettes. The quadrupling of gas prices has driven the prices of everything else up too, everything except wages. How can we continue?
I have no problem reforming teacher/police/firefighter etc. pension plans. Let them all pay into their own pensions. If something is more sane, makes more sense and helps more people than it hurts I am all for it. I do believe these groups of people along with every citizen of the country should have affordable healthcare. Why shouldn't the rest of the middle and lower class stand together with teachers, policeman, autoworkers, electricians and demand they too be given affordable health care? Unfortunately the power trinity I've mentioned above wants to keep us working against each other. This triad is whispering in the ears of the rest of the middle and lower class (many of whom are forced to work just below full time and/or per diem shifts so their wealthy employers don't have to give them benefits), "look at those guys over there, why should they get benefits and a living wage"?!
We need to be united. This country has enough money, resources and wealth. The problem is the wealth and power stay protected and propagated by a very small minority. This minority of ultra-wealthy,wall street and career politicians is a cancer and a parasite on the United States. This parasite ensures its own profits and growth and makes sure our tax dollars go everywhere and benefit everyone except the majority of the people. The only way to fix this mess is to gut the existing system, reform it and ensure that the spending of every dollar collected by the people is directly voted on by the people. I am talking of a new, completely transparent system for directly voting on the president, laws, regulations and how and where to spend tax payer dollars.
This system can not be put in place by reforming the current system. The current system must be completely purged first. I repeat completely purged! Then and only then can we create a new, democratic social contract complete with strict term limits at all levels of government with complete and utter transparency. In this new United States the billions of dollars in assets of companies like Goldman-Sachs will give it's owners no more power in government than a housewife in New Jersey.
We need to go back to the basics of democracy.
No law or regulation should ever be passed without a majority of direct votes and that the passage of the law has been scientifically determined and agreed to do more good to the majority of citizens than harm.
The guiding principal of our government must be what is in the best interest of the majority of citizens not what makes a corporation more profitable.
The unholy trinity (as I will from here on refer to big corporations, wall street and career politicians) has been spending massive amounts of time, energy and money convincing everyone else that they are not the problem and at the same time consolidating power and ensuring their own survival. We must be as brave as our forefathers were in throwing off the yolk of the British. We too must be willing to die for equality, to be tortured to ensure our children and their children live in a free and just nation.
Happy 4th of July
Matt A
The reality is that we are in an economic crisis because of the greed, corruption and power lust of wall street, mega corporations and career politicians. This unholy trinity has been working to protect itself and it's interests for over thirty years now and if this continues, this triad will destroy the country. We are seeing the results of this thirty year power struggle play out now. The price of tobacco and gas have quadrupled over the past decade. Isn't it funny how those two things are indispensable to it's users. People who drive need gas and people who are addicted to tobacco need cigarettes. The quadrupling of gas prices has driven the prices of everything else up too, everything except wages. How can we continue?
I have no problem reforming teacher/police/firefighter etc. pension plans. Let them all pay into their own pensions. If something is more sane, makes more sense and helps more people than it hurts I am all for it. I do believe these groups of people along with every citizen of the country should have affordable healthcare. Why shouldn't the rest of the middle and lower class stand together with teachers, policeman, autoworkers, electricians and demand they too be given affordable health care? Unfortunately the power trinity I've mentioned above wants to keep us working against each other. This triad is whispering in the ears of the rest of the middle and lower class (many of whom are forced to work just below full time and/or per diem shifts so their wealthy employers don't have to give them benefits), "look at those guys over there, why should they get benefits and a living wage"?!
We need to be united. This country has enough money, resources and wealth. The problem is the wealth and power stay protected and propagated by a very small minority. This minority of ultra-wealthy,wall street and career politicians is a cancer and a parasite on the United States. This parasite ensures its own profits and growth and makes sure our tax dollars go everywhere and benefit everyone except the majority of the people. The only way to fix this mess is to gut the existing system, reform it and ensure that the spending of every dollar collected by the people is directly voted on by the people. I am talking of a new, completely transparent system for directly voting on the president, laws, regulations and how and where to spend tax payer dollars.
This system can not be put in place by reforming the current system. The current system must be completely purged first. I repeat completely purged! Then and only then can we create a new, democratic social contract complete with strict term limits at all levels of government with complete and utter transparency. In this new United States the billions of dollars in assets of companies like Goldman-Sachs will give it's owners no more power in government than a housewife in New Jersey.
We need to go back to the basics of democracy.
No law or regulation should ever be passed without a majority of direct votes and that the passage of the law has been scientifically determined and agreed to do more good to the majority of citizens than harm.
The guiding principal of our government must be what is in the best interest of the majority of citizens not what makes a corporation more profitable.
The unholy trinity (as I will from here on refer to big corporations, wall street and career politicians) has been spending massive amounts of time, energy and money convincing everyone else that they are not the problem and at the same time consolidating power and ensuring their own survival. We must be as brave as our forefathers were in throwing off the yolk of the British. We too must be willing to die for equality, to be tortured to ensure our children and their children live in a free and just nation.
Happy 4th of July
Matt A
Sunday, July 3, 2011
What I am trying to do here.
This web-site is my first real attempt to communicate my ideas about the future of our government. I deeply believe we have passed the point of being able to reform the US Government from within. There is too much corruption and too many special interests for that now. I want to also state that this organisation has absolutely no ties with the Tea Party organisation. I am a registered independent. I am acting completely independently owing no one money or favors (except the bank which I owe student loan money too). I want to lay out my ideas for a better United States of America as simply as possible. My interests, my special interests are to help give power back to the individuals who comprise this nation and develop a more equitable, sane and democratic government. I seek nothing else.
I believe the only way to get the country back on track so to speak is through peacefull revolution brought about by a large scale collective demonstration of our will. We are after all first and foremost a democratic nation. If it is the will of the majority of citizens to re-write the constitution or simply amend it then that will should be enforced. The Revolutionary War, as we all know was fought primarily so that the people of this nation could make their own laws, set there own taxes and essentially be autonomous. They were reacting to unfair laws and taxes imposed on them from the monarchy of England. Well it seems today that we merely traded foreign tyranny for domestic.
I would say the average smoker feels much the way our predecessors felt over British tea taxes. All of a sudden the government, without consulting the people, decided to raise the taxes on tobacco products to the point they quadrupled the price in the span of a few years. Now I am not making any kind of moral judgement about the use of tobacco and neither should our government. I am passing moral judgement on a government that would quadruple the price of a product simply to bring in more revenue. And I would venture to guess if you compared the taxes between tea and tobacco and adjusted those numbers for inflation the current tax on tobacco would be greater than the colonial tax on tea. Again I have no connection in any way to the modern Tea Party people. I would say the only things we agree on are our reasons for revolting against the government. This is no longer a social contract for the people by the people.
I believe the problem is that we have become a country ran by the wealthy and powerful for the benefit of the wealthy and powerful. Please keep checking back for updates. What I am trying to do here is present what I believe to be the problem with our government and some possible alternatives. More than ever the middle and lower classes need to unify. The great silent majority needs to exercise it's power. First I hope you will read my ideas and if you agree follow me into action. I am asking nothing in return but your time. Thank you.
I believe the only way to get the country back on track so to speak is through peacefull revolution brought about by a large scale collective demonstration of our will. We are after all first and foremost a democratic nation. If it is the will of the majority of citizens to re-write the constitution or simply amend it then that will should be enforced. The Revolutionary War, as we all know was fought primarily so that the people of this nation could make their own laws, set there own taxes and essentially be autonomous. They were reacting to unfair laws and taxes imposed on them from the monarchy of England. Well it seems today that we merely traded foreign tyranny for domestic.
I would say the average smoker feels much the way our predecessors felt over British tea taxes. All of a sudden the government, without consulting the people, decided to raise the taxes on tobacco products to the point they quadrupled the price in the span of a few years. Now I am not making any kind of moral judgement about the use of tobacco and neither should our government. I am passing moral judgement on a government that would quadruple the price of a product simply to bring in more revenue. And I would venture to guess if you compared the taxes between tea and tobacco and adjusted those numbers for inflation the current tax on tobacco would be greater than the colonial tax on tea. Again I have no connection in any way to the modern Tea Party people. I would say the only things we agree on are our reasons for revolting against the government. This is no longer a social contract for the people by the people.
I believe the problem is that we have become a country ran by the wealthy and powerful for the benefit of the wealthy and powerful. Please keep checking back for updates. What I am trying to do here is present what I believe to be the problem with our government and some possible alternatives. More than ever the middle and lower classes need to unify. The great silent majority needs to exercise it's power. First I hope you will read my ideas and if you agree follow me into action. I am asking nothing in return but your time. Thank you.
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