Link I'll warn you - this is a rant. I'm sure this has been posted and referenced other places - it's almost a month old, but seriously. Is this for real?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')his month, just 9% say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Most voters (52%) say Congress is doing a poor job, which ties the record high in that dubious category.
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NINE percent.
by jbrovont » Fri 25 Jul 2008, 11:22:07
The congress of the United States has a nine percent approval rating. NINE percent. How badly do you have to fuck up that even your own party doesn't want you?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he percentage of Democrats who give Congress positive ratings fell from 17% last month to 13% this month. The number of Democrats who give Congress a poor rating remained unchanged. Among Republicans, 8% give Congress good or excellent ratings, up just a point from last month. Sixty-five percent (65%) of GOP voters say Congress is doing a poor job, down a single point from last month.
Not to slam republicans (the vast majority on here are intelligent people and I respect you and your views), but despite being unable to articulate the English language, started a war by lying to the American public and trampling the Constitution and Bill of Rights, he's still got a 28% following.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'J')ust 12% of voters think Congress has passed any legislation to improve life in this country over the past six months. That number has ranged from 11% to 13% throughout 2008. The majority of voters (62%) say Congress has not passed any legislation to improve life in America.
So really - what are they doing up there on capitol hill anyway, with their fat salaries, lobbyists and free-ride-for-life pensions?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'V')oters hold little positive sentiment about the future. Just 41% find it at least somewhat likely that Congress will address important problems facing our nation in the near future, while 55% find this unlikely.
Hmm... Important issues like what - I don't know, healthcare reform, EDUCATION, inflation, foreign policy... possibly demanding accountability. An economy based on something besides flipping burgers and outsourcing jobs would be a start. Election reform. Ha. Fraud + plausible deniability = Job Security on Capitol hill. Oh yeah, what was that again... ENERGY?
Fail.
No wait.
Looks like America's on the right track today folks. Not only can the pilot not fly, but the whole crew is in first class getting hammered on the high life. So what exactly ARE they doing while we're out here busting our asses trying to make a way for ourselves in these perilous times?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') separate Rasmussen survey found that half of all voters believe America’s best days are in the past. ... Most voters (72%) think most members of Congress are more interested in furthering their own political careers. Just 14% believe members are genuinely interested in helping people.
I think I saw this in a PBS nature special one time.
Normally, when you don't do your job, you get fired right? For instance, if I was a cashier and I accidentally lost the till, maybe if I was lucky the FIRST TIME, it would come out of my check. The second time, I'm pretty sure I'd be talking to the cops. How about that $13 Billion in baled cash that got "lost" in Iraq? "It happens?" Excuse me? "It happens?!" You 'lose' $13 Billion dollars, and "It happens." Uh huh. Step into my office please. I think it's high time for an "employee review" here, since these people obviously don't understand WTF it is they are supposed to be doing between gym dates, golf outings and spa treatments.
Only a handfull even ATTEND all the votes. Hats off to them - at LEAST they show up for work. But what do we get for showing up to work every day? Pink slips. Sorry, your job's been moved to India, or Mexico. Have a great day...btw, want a new credit card to pay that mortgage with?
What was that quote again - "No taxation without representation?" Yeah well, epic fail. See above. I can't think of anything they've done to represent ME, the little guy. The guy that's working in a "service" job and trying to pay for school, put gas in my car, and save up a couple bucks so in case I break my arm I don't go bankrupt and fall through the cracks and end up working at a fast food joint and living pay check to pay check the rest of my life.
I got a check for $300 bucks a couple months ago to "stimulate" the economy. $300 bucks. It was my money to begin with, and they're going to "give" it to me so I can spend it and prop up the profits of some big monopolies? Yeah right. Am I supposed to say "thank you?"
Let's see - the US is $9.5 trillion and some change in debt. Spread out over every man, woman, 1 day old child, and EVEN resident aliens, that's $31,000 a piece? And it grows at about 1.74 Billion per day. So every month go ahead and write a check to the US Treasury for $174, because one way or another, they're going to take it out of you. And now they're considering giving the Fed a blank check to "bail out" mortgage lenders. I work hard for my money. We all do - and for what? So they can tax half of it, and inflate the other half into worthlessness? Because that's what's going to happen - they add $5 Trillion in "new money" and every dollar you have stashed away in your bank, IRA, 401k - whatever, is going to instantly lose 1/3 of it's value.
Have you been frugal enough to stash away $100,000 for retirement?
"No no no, don't cash that out, you'll get taxed 40% on that! That would be a bad buisness move!"
"Here Ben, have my $30,000."
"Thanks good citizen, let me give this to my buddy here, oh and thanks for the title to your property too! You're too generous! Tell you what, since you've been so cooperative, we'll let your bank account keep saying $100,000, we'll just reduce your buying power and you'll feel better about it. Oh but btw, if you take that out, we're still taxing you for 40% of what's left."
Fuck. You. Representatives? Public servants? No, let's call this what it is. This is fucked up. They are liars and they are theives. It's time we had people representing us that come from where we come from. People that have lived what we live. People who have struggled in their lives, and understand what it means to want. That feel what we feel. That see what we see.
Americans have been pacified by a dream that "it will get better." That "things will change next term." I have seen through this, and I take this deception very personally. They have stolen from me. From my family. From my friends. From your children. They have sucked the life out of a once proud nation. They have desecrated and disgraced those who devoted and gave their lives to The United States of America.
This is a sham. Our international reputation is destroyed. Our leaders are a joke to the rest of the world. "Seat of Democracy?" We've become a rogue nation. The only UN country to ever block election inspectors. The only G8 country to ever block an investigation by the IMF. I've heard people tell me "well if you don't like it, leave. Go somewhere else if you think it's so bad." No. This is mine. This is my country. This is your country. This is ours.
I was born here, and it is my right to select my government. It is my right not to be a slave to the ruling elite. It is my responsibility to stand up for everyone around me for the same.
That is what being an American used to mean, and I will be damned if it won't again.
There must be a line in the sand. This far, but no further. They have muddied it, obscured it, complicated it and tried to destroy it, but the framework to remove these parasites exists in the law. We can undo this, but we must take action. If we continue to stand idly by, the United States of America is going to end a ravaged husk of a failed nation, fiscally and democratically bankrupt.
It is not enough to say "Nothing can be done," or "I can't make a difference." It is not enough to say "I would, but they would stop me." We already know the outcome if we do nothing. There is no doubt in our minds. We've seen it. They aren't going to change. It will be the same lies, the same deceptions, the same theft, destruction and treason. Nothing will change unless we change it. We must try.
I propose a recall vote on this congress. They have failed their charge and their oath. Every state's laws are different. Some do not allow a recall. But most do. Those that do not represent a small minority, and are only a pen stroke away from enacting similar laws if their people support it.
Democracy must not fail here. Not in the United States. In other countries when leaders repeatedly rape, and fail to represent their people, there are riots, unrest, and armed revolution. That must not happen here. It was our Declaration of Independance and our Constitution that gave the rest of the world hope that a civilized people could rule themselves and not slip into the darkness of facism, dictatorship, or civil war. It is our duty to show the world that democracy can work. The United States of America was once a shining beacon of freedom in the world. We are tarnished, beaten and infested with vermin, but the world will still follow us.
Let us not lead them into darkness.
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