- Thread starter
- #21
And I don't believe the average American has ZERO voice. They are quite responsive to our voices or else they wouldn't be doing the non stop polling that is always going on.
Come on now, they do this to keep an ear to the ground as to what we're really paying attention to. Don't you find it odd that, for example, all food legislation is solely for the big agra monopolies? How anti-small farm, anti-sustainable, anti-farmer's market and direct farm sales and anti-competition they are? Are these laws really written to protect us? HELL NO! Those companies are basically paying our elected officials to poison us, make us sick and, most importantly, to make $$$ for those corporations. These laws are NOT in our favor, no matter how you spin them. And this is just one speck of an example. Wake up, please! American citizens have no voice in the matter anymore. Do WE get to vote on Monsanto's terminator seed moratorium being lifted? No. Do WE get to vote on whether Monsanto should label GMO foods? No, again. But this legislation sure as hell affects us directly, just like all corporate-paid for legislation... and you can bet your bippy, it's going to affect us in a bad way.
The Founders most thoughtfully designed a system of government that would not be held hostage to the tyranny of a pure democracy. So no, we do not get to vote on legislation that is the prerogative of those we send to Congress nor do we get to sign the legislation that the President signs.
We DO however have the power to send people to Washington who will vote for fiscal sanity and to pull the power away from the influence peddlers. We DO have the power to demand that our state legislatures call a Constitutional Convention and put a Constitutional amendment out there that would rein in a runaway Congress. All it takes is the will and the stamina to do it.
Would you vote for a Constitutional amendment forbidding Congress to dispense favors to anybody?