Get rid of the lobby system.
1. Term limits........
2. NO 501c3 status for churches/institutions.
3. Abolish the IRS.....flat tax system no loopholes for the ultrarich. No corporate breaks.
4. ALL laws/bills/statutes to be written in language that any layman with a high-school education can understand. NO exceptions.
5. Politicians to travel commercial carrier business class , just as most of their constituents.
6. Congressional session does not end until the budget is balanced.
7. FORCE the abusive multinationals to do what they should have long ago..example: Monsanto and Anniston Alabama...........example: where are the f***ing FUNDS you promised over the Gulf BP?
8. NO law/statute etc passed based solely on ANY religious principles.Period.
I could go on for hours.........
I've numbered these to reply to them.
1. I've heard this brought up by multiple democrats--and I hear this bell being rung loudly by anyone who
votes democratically. I've seen this argued against by republicans (and the logic was very poor--basically seemed like how a person reacts when you catch them in a lie).
2. Agreed, obviously. Let's guess which side would be for/against this one shall we?
3. I don't know about abolishing the IRS--perhaps streamlining it. I disagree with a flat tax. I think people who become rich here often forget that they wouldn't have been able to become so rich were they born in calcutta. I think that's the disconnect here is that rich people want to keep what they've "earned" without acknowledging the part America has played in affording them the opportunity to earn it. That is to say I believe you should pay more, the richer you are.
4. A version of this bill was passed, under democrats and Obama. Any forms and things of that nature which are for citizens are being "translated" from legalese to plain English. Obama has made it
very clear that it is the wish of his intention to extend this to all laws and all government materials--for the exacts reasons I'm sure you do. So that all Americans can understand the laws which govern them. What's the trick here? Republicans filibustered the bill applying this to laws about 18 times. (This was a singular bill with no fluff--no ideological reasons for the republicans to filibuster it, except that they don't want people to read the bullshit they've put into law)
5. Makes total sense--only exception being the president of course, and for good reason.
6. I think it shouldn't end ever. When the fuck do you and I get to take months off work at a time?
7. Agreeeeeeeeed. Again, republicans will never let it happen. Democrats do have interest groups here as well--but I think you'll find most of their shit is in the banking sector (and its still a smaller portion of this sector than republicans hold). Republicans are funded by big pharma, which is owned by big chemical, which owns big agro, big oil, big you name it. Dow chemical owns half the fucking world--this is actually something I know a ton about as one of these days I'll be working for one of these companies.
I've already got job offers from Monsanto.
8. Agreed. Again dude, I've gotta point you towards the right.
I don't see how this isn't all lining up for you. If you really want these things, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize which party has a vested interest in keeping them from happening--and its flat out public record that the left has tried to get almost every single one of these things passed and have been stopped by the right. I mean you say you want these--but are you being realistic. You're saying that everyone is a part of the same endemic problem, and yet here are the democratic legislators putting the exact things into bills which you are asking for (and doing them one at a time, hoping that people like you will
see what republicans really want)--and having them stepped on by republicans. They didn't try to pass these because they thought they could--they KNEW they wouldn't pass. The exercise is meant to show you that republicans vote AGAINST these things, and that dems vote FOR them. It's your own choice if you want to ignore public record.
You want me to wake up--and hell maybe I need to. However, you need to really look at some of these things you want and do the
actual research to find out who's been trying to do it. You literally couldn't have made making my point any easier. Three of these initiatives were on ballots in the past 2 years, and they were ALL
universally brought forward by democrats. Not bi-partisan. Democrats--and they were all subsequently filibustered by republicans.
Go ahead, look into it for yourself. The proof is in the pudding.