72% of American voters are for raising taxes on the wealthy.
That equates to 108 million people.
76% of American voters want to cut back on military spending.
That's 114 million people.
72% of American voters want a federal minimum wage of $10.00 or more.
108 million people.
74% of American voters are for ending oil subsidies.
111 million people.
79% of American voters want no cuts in Social Security and Medicare.
Over 118 million people.
93% of American voters want labeling of GMOs in their food.
That's nearly 140 million people!!
But none of this gets done!
The simpleand insulting truth is that a mere 500 or so men defy the will of
millions, that the very people we elect and send to Washington to create
laws that protect our interests, refuse to represent us, ignore our
clearly stated will on these crucial issues and many more.
They ignore "we the people" and do the bidding of "we the rich". Until
we confront these play-for-pay lapdogs, they will continue to serve a tiny
elite minority of rich and powerful oligarchs and America will continue
its slow but certain decline. You and I will live like beggars and
America will become a Third World country.
We've all been appalled by recent events. We've watched as our government
was shutdown. We've been horrified by the fight over the debt limit. We've
seen the systematic destruction of our democratic way of life.
So what can we do? With millions of dollars of fat cat money floating
around, the voice of the regular guy has been drowned out. There has been
no way to get rid of the crooks and liars. But I believe now there is.
How did that old expression go?
"Throw the bums out!"
We do this using a new, unique and powerful strategy
for taking on the corrupting cancer of money in politics __ an end run
around the iron grip which Wall Street, big banks and corporate
oligarchs now have on our political system. This sledgehammer approach
gives the 500 corporate toadies in Congress, who arrogantly sit inside
the Washington DC bubble and ignore the very people who voted them into
office, a simple straightforward ultimatum: Do your job and start
representing "we the people" or collect your pink slip.
It's a no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners method for cleaning up the corruption
among our elected officials and putting people in office who will do our
bidding. It forces the men and women we choose on election day to start
taking their orders from us, instead of the deep-pocketed puppet
masters who have effectively stolen our government by buying off our
senators, congressmen, even our president, with huge campaign donations.
This is an election year and people are frustrated and angry. Congress
started the new year at a historically low 13% approval rating.
I say we channel that frustration and anger into a unified and constructive
effort to restore true representative democracy to our country.
It's up tous. But something has to happen immediately. We are fast
approaching a point of no return, beyond which the specter of a
rigid totalitarian state looms. Either we replace our current legislators
or they will replace our country with one we don't recognize.
Look around. It's already happening.
So either we rise up now in a bloodless coup at the polls or we rise up
later in the streets. Revolution in the streets will not be bloodless and I
suspect it won't end well. The blatant and ruthless dismemberment of OWS
was a warning.
Time to unite and act decisively.
Hopefully it's not too late.
Sometimes truth comes from an unexpected place and from an
unlikely messenger.
It doesn't matter the source. It's still the truth.
[ This originated at the author's personal web site . . . http://jdrachel.com ]
