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Thread #109224   Message #2281011
Posted By: John Hardly
06-Mar-08 - 06:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: BushClintonBushClinton
Subject: RE: BS: BushClintonBushClinton
Not revolution. Just three things:

Education about how our system works. We don't legislate from the judicial or the executive. We don't execute from the legislative or the judicial. We don't judge from the executive or the legislative. And we don't elect kings. (to any of the branches)

Size & Centralization have their up and down sides. The government that you fight tooth and nail to GROW in order to meet your ends.....is the very centralized government that is now big enough to meet your political opponent's ends when he recaptures control. And he ALWAYS recptures control.

And government is an entity large enough that the meaningful nuts and bolts of running it are left to the professionals that remain in Washington despite who may or may not be elected -- at any level and in any branch of the elected government.

Revolution -- If there was ONE reform worth revolting in order to institute, it would be that no bill could be amended BEFORE it is passed. Ever wonder where all the shit comes from that is the "partisanship" that makes it so that it is unlikely for a Senator to ever be elected president? ....it's because all the bills are named in a way that a Senator cannot vote for or against them without later facing the media distortion that he is not a patriot (if he doesn't sign on with the "Patriot Act") or he is against civil rights (If he doesn't sign the newest bill with the words "Civil Rights" in it). Yet all those bill come amended with pork and attachments and amendments that are the reality of the bill, and the more likely reasons for the up or down votes.

If we would amend the Constitution such that bills could not have amendments until passed, all that shit would end. AND EXTRANEOUS, EXCESSIVE SPENDING WOULD COME TO A SCREECHING HALT.