Is it time for another American Revolution? ( Archived) (40)

Listening to all of the supporters of Political candidates - I can not help to wonder why none of the Politicians are really in touch with the people's issues. America is or fast becoming a 3rd world nation.

1) Legal taxpayers are supporting a growing number of illegal immigrants who pay no taxes, It is degrading our school systems, health systems, and transportation systems. It is moving money quickly out of the USA into Mexico and other countries.

2) Lawyers and politicians are crippling the ability of business to operate in the US.
a) The minimum wage criteria has moved industry out of our inner cities.
b) Liability insurance accounts for 20% of the cost of all products to the consumers.
c) Insurance coverage for small businesses forces many of them to reconsider doing business in the US, yet they provide 80% of the jobs in the US.
d) the BIS legislation is now moving Research and Development over seas.
e) Manufacturing jobs have been lost first to the Japanese, then the Koreans, Taiwan, Mexico and now China.
f) We have no real policy for reducing our dependency on foreign oil.
g) People are more concerned about being sued than if they do the correct thing.
h) Our prisons are containing a higher percentage of our population, yet crime is increasing.

3) The average "law abiding citizen" is loosing their homes - while government funds go to "bailing out the banks" who are taking the homes in the first place.

4) The IRS can take everything you have - sure you can fight them, but all of your money is "frozen" in the banks.

5) Traffic tickets now cost more than most people earn in a week.

None of the candidates for President discuss openly these issues. Maybe we should vote for our own candidate?

Would be my guess, that if the politicians don't get it handled soon, the Minute Men and people who are just as sick of the illegal immigration, are going to simply take the law into their own hands (nope, I didn't see a thing, and won't). When all that starts, whoever is in the White House might get a clue, and instead of wondering if he/she will be next LOL decide it is time to start working for the people, not his wallet, and get busy on some of those other issues. But dealing with the one would make a positive impact on all the rest, so I think that is where it should start.

LOL.

Pass the popcorn pleeeeeeeeease.........

I will share my popcorn with legal migrants only. LOL!

cee sinorita....pleasee passa de popcorn okiey.....

There won't be a revolution, not in the old sense of the word. In the last revolution there was a 'level' playing feild. same type of weapons, numbers of soldiers etc. Today the Gov't has more weapons than you can shake a stick at.

And if the gov't got wind of any revolt they would have it extinguished long before it gained any serious momentum. In fact they are probably reviewing your tax situation and ability to organize followers, as we speak

Revolution will come from voices.JMHO As for the oil companies and big biz. They don't give a tinkers dam about anything but profit, just the way it is. Capitalism at its ummm finest.

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What bothers me is this.........

We (both business and individuals) give them (gov't) answers (some partial and other major) to such things the energy crisis, homeland
security threats, illegal immigration and other areas of concern.

They politely listen and occassionaly they fund test research project. But unless that test project has most of the primary issues covered.
It basically is trashed. No one physical project, or technology project,
or information project has all of it issues covered in the test phase.

They then keep looking for answers. When the answers (or some of the answers) have been shared with them. It a reason, things like the wall on the southern border have been delayed for so long. Why
cars still get 22 miles to the gallon. Why nuclear materials can be
smuggled into the country. Why we don't have a manned space system to replace the Shuttle.

They need to recognize the people and business that come to them with ideas (solutions) for such problems are also trying to work inside the system. But often they (the gov't) seem to only want in house
solutions to thier issues and problems. It is the gov't specifies and the vendor produces complex, I call it. They actually seem desire to keep such individuals and business outside the system and to use them solely as vendors. As vendors, they are outside the information
loop of the gov't agencies often. It is the 'we vs them complex' that gets created.

I think that there is limits to our technologies and our abilities in this finite world with its limited resources. You keep saying 'no' to solutions
of your problems, trying to find the perfect answer or total answer,
and you make yourself ineffective and obsolete. You may never find those prefect answers. I think that is where our gov't is headed. And it explains a number of things......