hehe, well i actually haven't used a turn yet so
your right, there are a multitude of voices all with varying views. but there is one overwhelming message i'm getting. take the big money out of our election process. it produces a corrupt system where politicians sell themselves to the highest bidder. now i'm not saying corporations are terrible, and that big business is terrible, we need them. i am saying that their influence on political elections needs to be put back in check. in our current system, these companies don't even need to be American owned. what business do they have funding candidates in our elections? our current president is aiming at raising over 1 billion dollars in his campaign for re-election. to me that's ridiculous. they are also the ones doing the majority of funding for political parties. you vote against the party, the party funds someone else to defeat you in your next election. no offense, but its this two party system where both sides can't come to agreements or meet in the middle that is so embarrassing. its dysfunctional. the message is clear, stop taking their money so your free to pass laws ensuring companies like exon who recorded over 35billion dollars in profit last year in the united states pays more than 0$ in taxes. so GE does the same. How did this happen? i'll tell you, they bought it. they don't have the good of America at heart, only profit.
now some of that is my voice, but if your asking yourself what the message is, its protests aimed at bringing power back to the people, let our voice be heard over the millions upon millions of dollars being heaved at political candidates to ensure our political system remains corrupt and bought.
now here is a little more just to spice things up.
-political parties- “serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force to put, in the place of the delegated will of the Nation, the will of a party; often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels, and modified by mutual interests. However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People and to usurp for themselves the reins of Government; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.” -George Washington
why oh why do we continue to cut funding to education? you can't even run a representative republic without an educated populace? what do i want to see? i wouldn't mind higher education completely payed for, instead students are asked to pay more and more each year. the unemployment rate in American for people with a 4 year degree is right around 4.1%. for people with no higher education it sits at around 18%. when you continue to cut funding to students what you see is less and less people able to afford college and less and less people able to be competitive with the global economy.
and all i hear from both sides is slash and cut everything. not going to work for me.
Originally Posted by BeeNo
hehe, well i actually haven't used a turn yet so
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