A lesson in democracy

Federal Budget-BRILLIANTLY EXPLAINED.Lesson # 1:* U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000* Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000* New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000* National debt: $14,271,000,000,000* Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000Let's now remove 8 zeros and pretend it's a household budget:* Annual family income: $21,700* Money the family spent: $38,200* New debt on the credit card: $16,500* Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710* Total budget cuts so far: $3.85 Got It ...

DO YOU REMEMBER JANUARY 3, 2007??? This tells the story, why Bush was so bad at the end of his term. Don't just skim over this, it's not very long, read it slowly and let it sink in. If in doubt, check it out!The day the Democrats took over was not January 2nd 2009, it was actually January 3rd 2007. This was the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress.The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for t ...

Idaho Rep. Vito Barbieri (R) asked what we MTs would generally consider to be a pretty funny question, but it made me wonder whether there are many men who really don't know how female anatomy works. He asked whether a woman could swallow a tiny camera that could be used for a female exam. Now, he did state later on that he meant the question to be rhetorical. I'm just wondering if he could have first stated beforehand, now, I know about female anatomy and that it is not connected to G ...

I learned that it is a right and a duty to vote for my political representatives. As usual, before every election there is all sorts of trumped up shenanigans going on to discourage and suppress voting. One that has happened to me personally a few years ago was I received a call fraudulently telling me I did not have to turn in my absentee ballot by the day printed on the instructions. My vote would not have counted if I had followed that phone call. Lately it is has been: In Nevada: Re ...

“We Americans are going to have to talk together, work together, find solutions together and insist on opposing… those forces that don’t want to change.” Can U believe he SAID that? What happened to room for all? I am convinced hes a dictator. ...

To abolish the electoral college is to cause voter suppression. Sign this petition if you want to keep the electoral college.http://www.ipetitions.com/.../keep-our-republic-democracy... ...

In case anybody hasn't noticed, democracy in America is dying now. This isn't an overstatement; it's a fact. Corporate interests dominate our politics so much at this point that our government, for all intents and purposes, is merely its handmaiden. Whatever Wall Street wants, Wall Street gets. Corporatism is the new order of the day. One political party stands for it; the other political party won't stand against it. The word inertia means the tendency of an object to move ...

He does it again. Obama bowing to Japan Emperor Akihito. Simply amazing! http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.50fd6792b83ac59fea414195ebeb58b3.2d1&show_article=1 ...

...that is little different from the feudal system that existed in England at the time of the American Revolution. No, we don't designate "lords, ladies, dukes and earls" as such, but have no doubt that they exist. No, we don't have a king...or do we? Thomas Jefferson knew something about the insidious ways in which power becomes concentrated in the hands of the few, and used in ways that benefited the few to the disadvantage of the many. He predicted that every generatio ...

Do you ever wonder why it seems we’re always having the same fights over public policy? Why is it that after we get off our butts, stand in line for hours at the polls, cast our ballots, and are told we “won,” nothing seems to get resolved? Aren’t elections supposed to have consequences? What happened to “We the People”?Americans grow up believing they live in a democracy, indeed the world’s greatest democracy. Too bad that’s a lie.Consider gun con ...

I am amazed how lies and innuendo can possibly steal an election. 1. FBI director coming out and saying there might be a problem (but has not even seen the e-mails). 2. The Birther's who wanted to disenfranchise our country's first black president. 3. The Swiftboaters throwing manure on a Vietnam vet, Kerry. (Makes me think of Trumps 'bone spur' that kept him out of the draft and Trump saying he doesn't like vets who get cau ...

jobless unemployment benefit recipients, requiring ALL 9.8 million of them to pee on demand before their checks can be released. UI checks are released twice monthly, so I wonder if we will be required to test more often than ex-cons on parole. But they don't want to stop there. They also are suggesting to extend this requirement to include the 4.4 million families receiving TANF and any and all of the other millions of Americans on social assistance and subject them ...

Tired of the immigrant problem. Tired of the destruction of their cultures by people who not only refuse to assimilate but demand that the host nation should adopt THEIR cultures and laws. Tired of exposure to terrorism. Tired of the crime, especially crimes against women. Tired of under-performing economies, now saddled with an even greater number of unemployed. Too bad they didn't check with me about 20 years ago. I could have told them. But, hell, looking in a history book w ...

I recently learned that the reason education through high school in our country was "free," (though obviously paid for by taxes) was because in order for democracy to work, you have to have a well-educated electorate, i.e., you can't turn over the decision-making process to people who are not well informed. Looking at the demographics of the Trump supporters, which reveal that so many are NOT well educated, and not well informed enough to see that a President of the United States ...

...and now we know that he tapped Trump Towers in the month before the election. This is worse than Watergate by far. We know he has moles inside the intelligence agencies, DOJ and the State Department. He is using the information they provide to try to take down the duly-elected President of the United States "either by resignation or impeachment" as someone close to Obama has said. We know about the Obama DOJ slush fund funneling $billions to leftist organizations, which is a violation of Fe ...

The question was, would angry Democratic voters turn out for a midterm election? The GOP was betting it all that they wouldn't. Well, angry black voters did. Approximately 10% of the population, they were 20% of the voters who said Get Lost to Governor McDonnell and his would-be successor Ken Cuccinelli. Even more specifically, angry black women voters turned out. 91% of them voted for McAuliffe/against McDonnell. I'm sorry to say white women actually cut strongly for McDonnell, ...

I had seen an old newspaper article called "Gridlock shows signs of thawing" by Robert Novak back in 2011 so I've been mainly focusing on finding info on gridlock and the effects on lawmaking, Congress and the Presidents in the past few days. I did compress the various articles I found, trying not to be partial to one side or the other. If you want to read it, I can post it tomorrow. ...

A lesson in democracy

This is lovely.... - (sm)

Thank you for posting! - I'm going to pass it along.

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