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Old 03-26-2009, 02:12 PM   #66 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by pan6467 View Post
Give true representation back to the people. Make government responsible to the people not corporate, lobbyist, media and so on interests.

It's only empty if you are closed minded to change and wanting a government truly representative and working for the people.

It's not just taxes, it's freedoms they are taking away from us. It's them telling us to make sacrifices but they won't they increase their spending, they give the nation to special interests, extremists and corporations to run and the average citizen is beaten down into submission because if he speaks out people belittle him, call him a kook, don't listen even if it makes sense because the government has it's own agenda and it doesn't include him except to pay for that agenda.

Power to the people is for those that have no voice to stand up and demand accountability in government. To force government to listen to their voices again and not the extremists or the lobbyists or those who have agendas not in the best interest of the whole, not just the select.

Government can't listen to (and cater to) every single individual voice in society. The country is too big. Shit, EVERY country is too big for that. I understand your basic point, but you're never going to see a government construct where your senator is going door-to-door asking what each person would do in every situation. The entire point of Congress is that we vote for them to represent us.....the power is never in the hands of the people.

Now we can argue all day about whether most Congressmen are actually representing the will of their constituencies (many aren't, too often), but my point is that POWER TO THE PEOPLE is indeed an empty slogan in a country with 100's of millions of citizens
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