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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe country is in the crapper because of outsourcing and we are going 2 elect an outsourcing Jackass
I don't think so.
But no amount of get out the vote effort will work, if we do not first wake everyone up to the very real possibility of the theft of our elections.
Our election systems are set up in a way that even elections with paper ballots can be stolen with very simple code by a Tech guy
Our elections are being counted by private companies. (How the hell did we let this happen??!!)
If this group of current Republicans could steal elections, would they? I mean look at their morals, claiming to be Christians while they loot our treasury to kill and maim millions of people overseas, then they blame the poor and retirees for the debt they created and threaten to cut people's food stamps and social security. These people are the collective AntiChrist so we know morals are not an issue...but would they actually steal an election if they had to pay a Tech guy $20,000 or even $100,000? Well Duh! They are paying billions to buy off the media to manufacture consent, paying to steal an election is nothing to them and it is a business deal to them, they have no loyalty to our Country or the American people.
The question is, has the economy fallen enough for them, do they have more crap they want to blame Obama for? Then they will allow him to win. It should be pretty obvious why they didn't steal it from him 2008, they knew the shit storm of debt they had created with their unnecessary wars and Big Government programs like Homeland Security and the TSA and they sure as hell didn't want to take responsibility for it.
It wouldn't hurt however, to take Romney and the entire party down before the election with better messaging. And we need to take our messages to the corporate media, demand they air the truth on our public airwaves. They are breaking the law by using our public airwaves for their personal profit. We should be occupying the TV stations, make them uncomfortable enabling fascism. Show they how angry we are that they would toss our country aside for their own personal profit. Bring signs with the message we want to get across about the Republican party and the reality of what is happening in this country. Demand the 'liberal' media allow more real Democrats with real progressive issues that people care about...on OUR PUBLIC AIRWAVES. It is absurd we are allowing them to rake in billions on this election while they lie to us and brainwash everyone.
Better messages?
The country is in the crapper because of outsourcing and we are going 2 elect an outsourcing jackass?
The economy is in this condition because of free trade agreements. People who formerly had jobs now have to rely on the government instead of paying income tax. We have had tariffs since the American Revolution because our Founders intended that corporations pay 97% of the cost of running government. Anyone attempting to avoid tariffs were considered pirates and hung.
We need to end the free trade agreements and reinstate this policy to save our country from destruction from within. Any tea party 'conservative' person who pretends to love the founders, needs to be put in their place about their love for corporations, it's absurd. (But then they pretend to care about the Constitution and they love Homeland Security and the TSA, pretend to care about a fetus but then cut off starving homeless children and leave a huge mountain of debt to their own children because of their infantile selfish need for more more more now now now)
And to shut Conservatives up on pretending to care about the debt...You cannot simultaneously start two wars and two Big Government programs while cutting taxes...and then pretend not to know where the debt came from.
Where are the Democrats on that one- it is so easy to nail their asses!
It appears the Democratic party needs some help with messaging, maybe others can chime in?
Of course Huey Long has the best message of all:
It is not the difficulty of the problem which we have; it is the fact that the rich people of this countryand by rich people I mean the super-richwill not allow us to solve the problems, or rather the one little problem that is afflicting this country, because in order to cure all of our woes it is necessary to scale down the big fortunes, that we may scatter the wealth to be shared by all of the people.
We need to raise taxes to the level of Eisenhower.
We need to implement Smedley Butler's plan to end all wars, 100% corporate tax on incomes made from war.
Huey P. Long
(1,932 posts)abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)Yep.
It's not like rich people weren't still rich under Eisenhower. Jobs didn't disappear under Eisenhower. The middle class and union membership was at it's highest under Eisenhower.
And Dems really really really need help with messaging.
liberalnationalist
(170 posts)I would show proof that the facist republican party is steelling elections...then ask for the military to throw them out of office
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)paying taxes" it's ALSO that if they ARE going to work THEY HAVE TO TAKE *W*H*A*T*E*V*E*R* JOB THEY CAN GET, whether it is the right job for them or not. And the definition of "the right job" here is the job that allows them to capitalize to the max on whatever real value skills and talents and aptitudes they have.
If we weren't in the position of having to accept WHATEVER jobs "the job creators create", more people would create their own jobs together with other people who are creating complimentary jobs and maybe, just maybe, the result of that COULD be more exports, which would address the imbalance of trade and THUS reduce how much the government must do to keep the economy from going completely fucking totally to HELL.
A few things would help small entrepreneurs BIG TIME: Appropriate cradle to grave EDUCATION, Single Payer Health Care, and Safe and Secure SOCIAL SECURITY
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)hand the pie to? Covert Koch agents?
patrice
(47,992 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)Ghost of Huey Long
(322 posts)but WE need to lead on this, and let the 'leaders' do the following.
But Obama was not personally making millions sending American jobs overseas.
Romney is just the perfect example of the horrible selfish arrogant greedy 1%er and everything that is wrong with America. He makes most Republicans turn away, they certainly have nothing to defend him with.
He cannot win without election fraud. I am merely suggesting we don't wait, watch, and hope for the best.
I think we should take them out with the truth beforehand, being just as loud as the tea party only we have the facts and the truth on our side. Karl Rove has been using the media to create reality and I am sick of it.
Time to return to reality, which of course has a liberal bias.
spanone
(135,844 posts)Ghost of Huey Long
(322 posts)Tariffs were the main source of all Federal revenue from 1790 to 1914.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs_in_United_States_history