Unofficially? Well, people are people, and for many people, the personal is political, so it happens anyway. Sometimes you'll get a good and interesting discussion, sometimes you won't. But you'll never know until you try.
Not that I condone that sort of thing.
Does anyone get a little ticked when the news reports the economy 'recovering' when the December sales show a slight boost? Of course they are gonna go up, its a freakin' holiday about buying crap for other people.
How many of you think the U.S. government is run more by corporations and less by voters? gov't officials get trillions of dollars from lobbyists each year to make laws that favor corporations over citizens. Citizen advocate candidates that don't accept lobby money are basically swept under the rug as Ralph Nader was done (he wasn't even allowed to participate in the debates when he ran). To get anything done with our current gov't you have to pay the officials to vote your way (this was proven with Obama and all of the back-room dealing he had to do to get his health care reform passed).
That should be good for a start...
Ok, well here goes then.
Does anyone get a little ticked when the news reports the economy 'recovering' when the December sales show a slight boost? Of course they are gonna go up, its a freakin' holiday about buying crap for other people.
How many of you think the U.S. government is run more by corporations and less by voters? gov't officials get trillions of dollars from lobbyists each year to make laws that favor corporations over citizens. Citizen advocate candidates that don't accept lobby money are basically swept under the rug as Ralph Nader was done (he wasn't even allowed to participate in the debates when he ran). To get anything done with our current gov't you have to pay the officials to vote your way (this was proven with Obama and all of the back-room dealing he had to do to get his health care reform passed).
That should be good for a start...
I agree.
Ok, well here goes then.
Does anyone get a little ticked when the news reports the economy 'recovering' when the December sales show a slight boost? Of course they are gonna go up, its a freakin' holiday about buying crap for other people.
How many of you think the U.S. government is run more by corporations and less by voters? gov't officials get trillions of dollars from lobbyists each year to make laws that favor corporations over citizens. Citizen advocate candidates that don't accept lobby money are basically swept under the rug as Ralph Nader was done (he wasn't even allowed to participate in the debates when he ran). To get anything done with our current gov't you have to pay the officials to vote your way (this was proven with Obama and all of the back-room dealing he had to do to get his health care reform passed).
That should be good for a start...
Do you expect Barry and his socialist admin to admit their policies and ideas are failures?
Do you expect to hear any logic or facts from the left?
Do you expect the amateurs in the White House to know what they are doing?
Do you get a tingling feeling running up your leg from Barry?
Only another year until we get adults back into the White House...
You know RH, I'm reminded of Matthew 7:3-5.
*Yawn*
You know RH, I'm reminded of Matthew 7:3-5.
I don't think so.
I see where you are getting the "hypocritical" thing from, but I can argue that it isn't.
Do you expect Barry Palin and his her republican admin to admit their policies and ideas are failures?
Do you expect to hear any logic or facts from the left right?
Do you expect the amateurs in the running for the White House to know what they are doing?
Do you get a tingling feeling running up your leg from Barry Palin?
Yay, we're having a meaningful discussion! I'm learning so much from this, it's very educational and insightful.
Do you expect Barry Palin and his her republican admin to admit their policies and ideas are failures?
Do you expect to hear any logic or facts from the left right?
Do you expect the amateurs in the running for the White House to know what they are doing?
Do you get a tingling feeling running up your leg from Barry Palin?
Yay, we're having a meaningful discussion! I'm learning so much from this, it's very educational and insightful.
palin is a joke.
Do you expect Barry Palin and his her republican admin to admit their policies and ideas are failures?
Do you expect to hear any logic or facts from the left right?
Do you expect the amateurs in the running for the White House to know what they are doing?
Do you get a tingling feeling running up your leg from Barry Palin?
Yay, we're having a meaningful discussion! I'm learning so much from this, it's very educational and insightful.
palin is a joke.
As are progressives.
Do you expect Barry Palin and his her republican admin to admit their policies and ideas are failures?
Do you expect to hear any logic or facts from the left right?
Do you expect the amateurs in the running for the White House to know what they are doing?
Do you get a tingling feeling running up your leg from Barry Palin?
Yay, we're having a meaningful discussion! I'm learning so much from this, it's very educational and insightful.
palin is a joke.
As are progressives.
agreed.
Life in general is a big joke, so you might as well laugh about it.
To you maybe.
But I take my life seriously.
People being serious often ruin other people's fun for no good reasons. (Obviously they also sometimes ruin other people's fun for good reasons, but overall less serious is often better)
It also depends on how you use the term "serious", of course. I generally consider serious to be an opposite of "fun", even though the true opposite of fun would be closer to "boring" probably.
That and it doesn't matter how serious we take ourselves or how serious we take life because most people just don't. I think certain things can be serious, of course, but overall nothing really is. So we should just do our best to enjoy our time here cuz what else can we really do?How's that go? Something like 'you can't take life seriously cuz you'll never make it out alive' or something? Oh well. Me, well, I just try to remind myself as often as possible of my status as a totally insignificant speck of dust. I'd say more of us should do that cuz it puts things in the perspective I believe they should be seen, but then we'd all be dead. Wait. Yeah, I say more of us should do this.
i've been through the mopey-emo-"sigh life is rough" stage in my life.
d'you know what i got out it?
life sucks. it really does.
so you have 2 options:
you can cry or you can laugh.
those are your really your two options. you can either be a ***** and whine about how life is rough and how it's out to get you, or you grow a pair and roll with the punches, laugh it off with the knowledge that tomorrow is another day.
some have called me an optimistic pessimist. i flat out expect the worst in most situations and expect things to not go, but you know what? it could always be worst and my situation really isn't that bad when i look at it.
i have a roof over my head, a full belly and friends that support me. my life, truthfully, is pretty damn sweet. sure i don't have all awesome things i want, but i've really got nothing to complain about other then the forgettable everyday annoyances EVERYONE complains about. i'm not rich, but i'm not needing anything.
to quote a bard i rather like:
Life's a piece of ****,
When you look at it.
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
You'll see it's all a show,
Keep 'em laughing as you go.
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.
So does anyone think the current political system is run by corporations and the rich? If so what can be done about it?
The only thing that I think might help would be to either ban Lobby's and convert them to an across the board tax for large businesses, or just require all lobbys to be put into a single pool and distributed equally rather than individually to each politician...
You have only to look at the several internet blacklist bills that are secretly (for "national security reasons" they aren't announcing them to the public but they leaked) being discussed by US politicians. One was started back when GW Bush was in office (ACTA), but the newer one (COICA) started under Obama is even worse than China's.
Both basically say if a Corporation makes an accusation (even an unfounded one) of IP infringement, then the "infringing" site would be taken down imediately with no trial nor due process. The same for any sites deemed to be... "dangerous to national security". (hiel)
So if someone has a non-profit just for fun Pokemon fan-art site and the IP owners say "that infringes on our IP" then down it goes. Period. No trial, nor any democratic process.
Not to mention whistleblower sites that report on human rights violations by governments.
What can we do? Write, e-mail, and phone your congress(wo)men that you oppose or support certain bills and say why in a calm rational manner.
They'll still take the money, but if they get the message that you will be be voting but for someone else if they don't represent you they'll (maybe) vote your way when the bill comes up. You can only hope.
Yes it is run by corporations.
You have only to look at the several internet blacklist bills that are secretly (for "national security reasons" they aren't announcing them to the public but they leaked) being discussed by US politicians. One was started back when GW Bush was in office (ACTA), but the newer one (COICA) started under Obama is even worse than China's.
Both basically say if a Corporation makes an accusation (even an unfounded one) of IP infringement, then the "infringing" site would be taken down imediately with no trial nor due process. The same for any sites deemed to be... "dangerous to national security". (hiel)
So if someone has a non-profit just for fun Pokemon fan-art site and the IP owners say "that infringes on our IP" then down it goes. Period. No trial, nor any democratic process.
Not to mention whistleblower sites that report on human rights violations by governments.
What can we do? Write, e-mail, and phone your congress(wo)men that you oppose or support certain bills and say why in a calm rational manner.
They'll still take the money, but if they get the message that you will be be voting but for someone else if they don't represent you they'll (maybe) vote your way when the bill comes up. You can only hope.
That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. They saw the gov't do it with the Patriot Act (which has been ruled unconstitutional in courts, and yet is still lawy), and they are following suit.
Lately the only conflicts I've seen in politics have been between different groups of corporations, not different groups of people...
Regardless of what you thought about the health care bill, you can look at how it was put into law and see right off that it was the insurance companies fighting with other corporations. The people just didn't factor into it, except as a side note on the news...