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Heading Into Midterm Elections, Confidence In Congress Hits Record Low 7%
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
It’s no surprise to anyone that Americans have zero faith in their so-called “Representatives.” The vast majority of these folks are lying, thieving, white-collar criminals, and we all know it. The real question is what, if anything, are we going to do about it?
I’m not someone who believes in centralized power, and I question whether in a world with the technological connectivity we have today, if we actually need to vote for someone else to vote for us. This seems like an extremely inefficient and outdated process. I haven’t yet come to my own conclusions on what specifically might be a preferable system, but I am certainly a proponent of decentralizing government and the political process itself. For more on this concept, I suggest, reading the following post from last week: The Coming Digital Anarchy.
While I do think our current system of government is overly centralized and outdated, I still think it’s important to send these corrupt political cronies a message as long as this system remains in place. This is already happening, as we saw with Dave Brat’s stunning victory over corporatist kingpin Eric Cantor. Furthermore, it appears Democrats are also at serious risk from the public’s disdain, as 22-term Rep. Charlie Rangel is finding out now (for more of my thoughts on this read, Is Charlie Rangel the Next to Go? 22-Term New York Democrat Faces Serious Primary Threat).
Moving along, the latest article from Gallup contains some stunning revelations as well as a shocking statement. First of all, it reports how only 7% of Americans say they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in Congress. This is a record low since the question was first asked in 1974, and handily beats the prior low of 10% in 2010. Moreover, it was “the lowest Gallup has recorded for any institution in the 41-year trend.” If you don’t think this is hugely important, think again. The 4th Turning is alive and well.
We learn from Gallup that:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans’ confidence in Congress has sunk to a new low. Seven percent of Americans say they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in Congress as an American institution, down from the previous low of 10% in 2013. This confidence is starkly different from the 42% in 1973, the first year Gallup began asking the question.
Americans’ current confidence in Congress is not only the lowest on record, but also the lowest Gallup has recorded for any institution in the 41-year trend. This is also the first time Gallup has ever measured confidence in a major U.S. institution in the single digits. Currently, 4% of Americans say they have a great deal of confidence in Congress, and 3% have quite a lot of confidence. About one-third of Americans report having “some” confidence, while half have “very little,” and another 7% volunteer that they have “none.”
So how do Americans view many of the other institutions in society?
The most interesting aspect of the above is the fact “news on the internet” is more trusted than “television news.” The most disturbing part of the above is that the popularity of the military makes come sort of coup a serious concern down the road if we have a serious collapse.
Now here’s the most shocking line from Gallup:
The dearth of public confidence in their elected leaders on Capitol Hill is yet another sign of the challenges that could face incumbents in 2014′s midterm elections – as well as more broadly a challenge to the broad underpinnings of the nation’s representative democratic system.
Gallup seems to believe that the corruption in D.C. poses an existential threat to the nation itself. I agree. This is why we cannot settle for small cosmetic changes at the edges of the current system, which as academics from Princeton and Northwest proved, is an oligarchy. We need wholesale systemic change, preferably a radical shift into decentralized political, social and economic structures. The more centralized power is, the more ripe for corruption. As we are seeing today.
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How much confidence do they have in Gallup?
The numbers don't matter - the suckers will still line up to vote.
Party hacks will terrify them that the other party will be so much worse.
It's also no surprise that they have no memory.
As posted by another ZHer yesterday...
Mark Twain — 'If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.'
Every election for us commoner's its:
Heads we lose,
Tails they win.
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The only way out is to 'sever the beasts head.' Otherwise nothing changes.
im 100% confident that nothing will change in congress.
are the 34% of people with a great deal of confidence in the medical system the same ones who have already signed up for obamacare, as in they are "confident" theyre fucking everyone else in the ass.
The 7% that still like Congress are those that love the US Bubble Economy, like (1) bankers; (2) Wall Streeters; (3) bailed-out companies; and (4) real-estate industry.
Everyone else is completely sick of this bullshit.
If everyone basically hates their congressional rep then why the fuck do they vote for them in the first place?
Fucking idiots.
I am Chumbawamba.
SEVEN percent ? Why so high ?
...now we know how many people have no bama phones.
Probably did not understand the question since they do not speak English.
It's not my congresscritter that's the problem, it's your congresscritter that needs to go. Seriously. I like my congresscritter--supported his attempt for the senate. It's all the other idiots that are causing problems. ;)
Rep? Are you suggesting these people represent their constituents?
I think the title of this article is rather misleading, perhaps it should read "Heading into midterm elections confidence in the corporate spokespeople hits record low"
-fixed.
Most voters like their Representative and hate other districts Representatives. I do actually dislike mine, but he will keep getting elected in this racially gerrymandered district.
Huh. 7%? I don't believe that.
maniacal laughter
I do believe that 93% of them will be re-elected.
Round up the 7% for reconditioning. Of course the 7% is a statistical projection. I guess I will barricade myself in a bunker while the reconditioning is going on.........
Chris, Agreed, but I think you forgot Military Ind. Complex, Security Ind. Complex, and Prison Ind. Complex.
7% confidence
90% re-elected
USA USA USA ......
You beat me to it, 9 out of ten incumbents will hold their seats in this falls elections.
BLOTTO The only way out is to 'sever the beasts head.' Otherwise nothing changes.
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And that leads to a tolitarian or dictatorship because the majority (50%)public is uneducated and are easily swayed emotionally. So we still lose in a reset.
Positive change needs to come from educating the majority that Government is the problem and individual freedom is better.
Just the fact that there is a poll in the confidence of Congress shows a problem that most miss. The central government is not supposed to be so big and powerful that it makes such a difference in our day to day lives.
Imo sess,
If the masses awake from their slumber and brainwashing as a whole, i dont think it would lead to a dictatorship as we (hopefully) would be operating at a higher level or density. We cant just go back to this horseshit again.
I think thats what the whole idea about 'severing the beasts head' - to live and act differently...and not go back to totalitarian, dictatorship, etc...25,000+ years is long enough.
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If the position/power corrupts anyone - then this planet is fucked no matter what (which i dont believe). Its what is controlling us (i believe) and abusing the power thats fucking us over...ie., bloodlines/families from day 1 who think its divine right to rule over us.
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"In terms of the spaceship earth, the wrong crew is in command and its time for a mutiny"
~Mayan Indian
I won't argue about it being pointless voting in national elections. It is pretty pointless. But I would encourage everyone to vote I their local elections. They are always trying to sneak in some new tax 'for the children' or some such bullshit, ill always show up to vote against that.
If you're going to opt for the non-participation method of resistance, it needs to be active and quantifiable non-participation... register your own political party whose platform includes refusing to field candidates or participate in elections until/unless certain things happen... then at least you have hard membership numbers to battle the establishment's blanket dismissals of apathy and ignorance.
If enough of us stop creating debt you don't have to do the dog and pony show.
pods
The police at 53%? WTF?
Baltimore cop slits dogs throat, faces animal cruelty charges
Un-be-fuckinglievable.
dogs get better care than many people, cause they are dumb animals people respond with emotion, screw that dog, what do you think this cop would do to some poor kid or elderly black man? the rape of freedom is never given the outrage of animal abuse, we are idiots.
Maybe because dumb animals are incapable of malice, unlike humans.
[edit] Their approval rating is much higher than any of these other fucks.
My "dumb animal" deserves better care than most of the stupid, backstabbing, lying thieves I have met in my life.
You are an idiot. Any fat piece of shit pig kills my dog and he won't live to tell about it
<3
gay for ZH but best response of the week. thank you
Good dogs get good care because their loyal to a T . You my friend have never met Mongo's black pure bred German Shepard! His loyalty at age 9 has never been in question. He cruises inside our comfy abode 24/7 . You find yourself in my/his living room at 1am and it's gonna mean yo ass! Mongo knows of not one single human being as devoted. So take your bleeding heart statement and kindly stick it in your ass:-)
mongo et al, six down votes -- think you proved my point - I love dogs and feel the same way, but I know I am an idiot for it, for I did nothing for Miriam Carey after she was murdered by cop in DC..we might have a priority problem, ya think?
Well Mongo for one is certainly NOT going to argue with the fact that most Muricans have their priorities all fucked up, so if that was your point I'll admit some validity!
Do you realize that pig probably treats people like dogs.
pods If enough of us stop creating debt you don't have to do the dog and pony show.
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Throught the FRB, they are creating your debt for you. And don't give me the "I have no contract withh them stuff. You are the dog and pony in their show. We all are.
The reason that the FED started QE was twofold. To lower interest rates (stated goal), and more importantly, to increase the debt supply.
That is because in aggregate, the debt curve started to roll over. Death blow to any fractional reserve debt based currency.
When I learned about how our money system functions it hit me like a ton of bricks.
We have the power to stop it.
pods
No more debt? But I wanna buy gadgets and porn and strippers!
The great ape said...
"Party hacks will terrify them that the other party will be so much worse."
Thing is, it's a finer point than just party. Look at that complete fuck McConnell. Basically hated as much by democrats as he is hated by "tea party" ( read that as your basic conservative republican) so yes, they hate congress but like "their guy" or "their gal" in congress as long as they occasionally fly back home with some bacon. If I still lived in Louisville I'd totally vote for the Dem in this case. At least the Dem has the nutz to run the way they vote. Ya feel me?
I'm sure Pelosi enjoys great numbers in her district. Ditto Reid. Ditto McCain. Seriously? How the fuck is that guy still there? I voted against that prick Luger. He was supposed to be my guy. There are douche bags within my party that would say I bit off my nose to spit my face. That a RINO is better than a Dem or whatever. I reject that last part, but the spite part is dead on...besides...the guys name was Dick. So fuck that guy.
I am 100% sure the founders did not see "service" in Congress as a full time gig. They certainly didn't think it should be a lifetime gig.
Seriously? How the fuck is that guy still there?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4aKOhbbK9E
Maybe it's a generational thing, but I still consider it my civic duty to vote. The alternative is no vote at all. From my vantage, voters are not suckers, non-voters are just lazy. Worse, however, is the person who criticizes those who do vote; that just makes you a punk. You don't have to be a party hack to have a say, but you do have to have a vote. The alternative is absolute tyranny instead of the current soft tyranny that can at least be overthrown at the ballot box. PARTICIPATE.
okie, so voting on a diebolt terminal, where 10 microseconds later no one can verify how your vote was counted or even what you voted, sent to a co in Spain to total and report back to the state, you mean that voting system you should accept and support by showing up at the voting booth?? is that your position??
Mail in ballot, #2 pencil. Make a couple of copies of it. Audit the count.
What about those of us who feel it tyranny to rule over our fellow man?
A vote IN this system is a vote FOR this system.
pods
To quote Jack Spirko, "Voting for the lesser of two evils, is voting FOR evil". period.
Every dollar you spend is a vote on the kind of world you want to live in. Voting for politicians is far less important.
How does one vote out the shadow giverment?
bwahahahahahahahhahahahahah
The lie is fooling less and less people. I "feel people out" on a constant basis (whenever I get the chance), and 100% of them are pissed-off about the whole mess.
So, you know what?
Let these idiots keep marching forward. The average person is working longer hours, for "less of a life", and getting pissed-off at the arrogant, lying, deceitful bullshit that they're "getting wise to".
All lies point to the truth.
And the truth is going to erupt in one giant crescendo, in such a way that these fucktards won't even know what happened.
Remember yesterday's "Forget Piketty's 700-Page Tome - Here Is The Shortest Economics Textbook Ever" ??
Even shorter lesson: The Shortest Lesson on Life
It's just one rule:
1. You can't spend your entire life fucking-over lots of people, and NOT expect it to bite you in the ass, sooner or later.
'Nuf Said.
America's voting system is horrendous for several reasons including limited availability of places to vote and somewhat long voting lines especially in a presidential years, crummy times and hours, and the closed primaries and difficulty getting on the ballet in most states.
Problem though is in the mirror. I can't tell you how many well to do people I know complain constantly about local govt issues where there attendance and activism can actually make a difference yet these same whiners don't ever go to a board meeting, vote locally, etc. just complain which is largely what Americans have become especially the elderly.
"somewhat long voting lines especially" in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Hello.
As no difference will be made by voting why don't you stop voting. Better yet, revoke your voter registration. If millions of people revoked their voter registration it will diminish the legitimacy of the government. If more than 50% of the population votes, it is easy to claim the majority of the people are agreeable to being part of the regime.Therefore, dissent by the minority is unacceptable and must be suppressed.
just my 1 cent advise
More and more, when I speak with people, they seem to agree that it makes no difference. It is easier to convince them that voting is futile, and only encourages the criminals in DC.
How much confidence do they have in their fellow man?
How much confidence do they have in their fellow man?
More than in politicians, I'd wager.
Seeing the military at the top of the list means a coup is very likely to happen here now moar than ever!
Yup. All civic and religious institutions are failing if you look at the confidence issues. It is just going to take the right tipping of the boat to suspend a whole bunch of freedoms and the irony is Americans will approve it likely by the ballet.
Yup. All civic and religious institutions are failing if you look at the confidence issues. It is just going to take the right tipping of the boat to suspend a whole bunch of freedoms and the irony is Americans will approve it likely by the ballet.
"Seeing the military at the top of the list means a coup is very likely to happen here now moar than ever!"
Yeah, wouldn't that be great?! I mean after all the military does such a great job. Really, what could go wrong with the military running the country other than -
And who exactly does the military purge? Where do they draw the line - all of congress? SCOTUS? Do they suspend what is left of constitutional protections? For how long? What mechanisms do they put in place for resuming civilian control? What power do they retain after that retain?
Someone would have to be an absolute idiot to suggest a military coup as a viable option to restoring liberty.
Yep and that's not a good thing because after the coup we will have new, worse, totalitarian masters.
Makes ya wonder if "they" are doing it all on purpose...
I am not being sarcastic when I say that I find the 7% figure too high to be believed.
That's precisely half of the 14% of respondents who are too dumb to understand the question.
when Washington serves the states-the states prosper
when the states serve Washington-Washington prospers.
is the differnece between "these united states" and "The United States"
its a choice.
repost:it is very clear with the selection & the election of barry S aka hussain O, as a viable candidate for POTUS, that the powerful elite, have dropped all pretense, removed the curtain so to speak, the Managed MSM as a weapon, they can do anything with no real opposition in .gov, the courts or the law inforcement branches, the public is at their mercy.
Yep, they can toss whoever they want to be Prez and the people will buy it and revel in all of the change that is coming their way. The only requirment is the ability to read a teleprompter.
People are stupid to have high confidence in the Military is stupid. It is totally politicized and is about defense contracts and freebies. They have done nothing to uphold The Constitution.
Why do we even have a Fucking Congress? They don't do anything. Like, Impeach our illegitimate prez.
When Harry Reid can single handedly stop all legislation from being voted on, people wonder why Congress is ineffective.
And they haven't done their most basic job - pass a budget - in what, four years? It is not just a matter of perspective, any way you can look at it, that's broken.
the problem isn't that they don't do things. the problem is that they do do things.
Word to the buzzsaw.
And what they do do is do do.
Every FEDGOV employee, even the good ones, needs to be terminated immediately so that we can start again.
Like, terminated terminated? You don't fuck around.
Some of them certainly deserve it.
I suspect that the actual level of confidence in Oblah-blah is similar. The propagandist media most likely lies to make the O'bomber look better and CONgress look worse.
The military opinion is really worked for and will be very useful to the TPTB when they come in and "Save" us from the red-blue team
The problem has been and will continue to be "I like my representative, but those Other Guys are the problem."
That's why option 3 to the two party system needs to be no confidence.
Flush the toilet on all of them and have an instant election.
Corp. payola couldn't keep up with that.
And govt couldn't remotely function either.
Exactly!
Remember who the real enemy is.
Remember who the real enemy is.
That would be the State, and the trained, firghtened minds that support it.
"That would be the State, and the untrained and undisciplined, frightened minds that support it." - fixed.
Hehe... okay. I kinda meant "conditioned," but fair enough. :)
Sheep who watch TV and Hollywood's shit. I bet 75% of ZH readers and posters still watch TV. Stupid fux.
i call bullshit. no way it's that high.
Saw buzzsaw99, just saw your comment and I agree 100%. Unless of course the poll was run among members of Congress.
Come on guys, you will get 7% on ANY question, due to respondents being distracted, oppositional or stupid.. In poll terms it is the equivalent of zero.
The 7% are lobbyists.
I wonder why TV and internet news is ranked so low. BTFD is all you need to know.
YOUR Congresscritter is a dirtbag. MY Congresman is a saint.
That's how they ALL get re-elected.
Look for the "new" Repubs and Libertarians who believe in the Constitution and limited gov't.
You can tell who they are because the media and establishment Repubs & Dems are always criticizing and trying to demonize them.
Helluva insightful comment.
This could be the year of the great upset.
How many people are taking a close look
at Brat's playbook?
Most encumbants are vulnerable on the points
that brought Kantor down.
This could be the year of the great upset.
For whom?
One party loves war and supports welfare. The other loves welfare and supports war.
Suckers want to believe.
Keep the fucks in constant campaign mode.
Wear them down. If they are constantly worried about their "job" in DC, they have less time to fuck stuff up.
does joe6pack care? consider it as bullish. if the number would be @ 40, 50%, be very very careful!
74% have a great deal of faith in the military? incredible. so we can expect a military coup and halliburton death camps in 3, 2, 1...
I watched Lone Survivor the other night and the only thing I took away from it was, Wow, I can't believe how utterly incompetant our military is now. And it was the Navy Seals!
I can't believe how utterly incompetant our military is now. And it was the Navy Seals!
Seals are massively over-rated. They've been turned into an object of worship.
The Seals do not work for the Dept of Defense. They work for Al See Eye Aye Duh! The same people who are running ISIS. Probably the same people Snowden still works for.
Watch the special addition of "Inside Combat Rescue" on NatGeo Channel.
There was a two hour special the other night where "Team Reaper" hunts this Taliban Boogie Man for like 20 fucking years. They talk about all the people he is responsible for killing and how terrible he is. They drive around like chicken shits in their armored slow ass turtles for the entire episode. Not a single shot fired. No one engaged. They end up having a series of meetings with "Tribal Elders" and finally convince them to bring the guy in for a chat....and it fucking works! He comes in, they all lay around in a room on pillows and drink fucking tea or something and the guy says " nope, I didn't do anything bad. Just your average Joe"
They all get up, and it's like...ok, good enough for me.
They show the soldiers faces as they drive back to base and they are all like "what the fuck just happened?"
Total pussies.
They sit in a command center all day watching the enemy run wild on FLIR and are terrified to leave the base.
This is the mil we fear in a coup? What fucking ever. Those armored turtles are slow as fuck. The tech they use has hamstrung them.
The whole country is a ***king joke now. All idiots on twitter, FaceBag, TV and Hollywood's stupid retard movies. There is no rule of law. These clowns have no clue what is in The Constitution.
I am surprised that the church is ranked that high, but I grew up in a parish that was lead by a child molester so my view might be different than those few that weren't.
Is that why you wear the bag on your head race?
No offens:-)e
Cause I prefer to only have the NSA know who I am..... LOL
Well played sir!
I figure if they come after me there will be a picture of Alex Karras on the news:-)
are these seasonally adjusted?
Not yet. It will be revised upward to 98% in early November.
"What are we going to do about it?"
Mongo suspects absolutely nothing! You see with all the lazy boyz, flat screens, soccer, baseball, Kardashian's etc. Things is still just way too comfy for the average joe. Sad but true!
I think it was Churchill who said it, not sure, but it's true....
"Democracy is a crisis activated system."
The crisis is coming, question is, what will be activated? I vote for and support decentralization-oriented leaders now, so that when the time does, they and we are ready. It could go the other way.
The Princeton/Northwest study can't be brought up often enough. Here is an interview with a couple of the lead authors;
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/princeton-scholar-demise-of-democracy-am...
"Let's talk about the study. If you had 30 seconds to sum up the main conclusion of your study for the average person, how would you do so?
I'd say that contrary to what decades of political science research might lead you to believe, ordinary citizens have virtually no influence over what their government does in the United States. And economic elites and interest groups, especially those representing business, have a substantial degree of influence. Government policy-making over the last few decades reflects the preferences of those groups -- of economic elites and of organized interests."
The large number of government programs that have failed to carry out their duties and the dim view many Americans have towards Washington may be starting to take its toll on those who think big government is the answer. The Democratic Party has long been thought of as the party of "big government" filled with believers that government can solve and is the answer to curing many of our woes.
Sadly cost and reality are quickly beginning to show the flaws in this theory, government is far better at providing access of citizens and good at passing popular laws, but the private sector tends to be more efficient and better at controlling costs. More on the flaw in the concept of big government in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/11/flaws-in-big-government-concept.h...
ass launch them all
Forward!
The majority of these rats will be voted back into office because most people think it's everybody else's representatives who are the problem.
Yep, by more than 90%
Most people think that it's politics in general.
TERM LIMITS
^^^This would go the furthest to stop the embedded ticks in the system. And enforcement of the laws for them as well. However we'd need and honest Attorney General, not the piece of shit we currently have.
How 'bout we just send all the Congresspeople (see, I'm PC) home, give them a severance package and let Obama run the govt via Exec Orders? Ballot time put his name on it, as the only nominee, and allow people to vote for their next president. Clean, simple, no mud slinging, no more lies about opponents.
Without all these pesky Congresspeople (yeah, I am now double PC, and that makes me feel really good) and their pesky committees trying to investigate all the perceived wrong-doing by this admin (which, btw, isn't the definition of wrong-doing not unlike the definition of 'is'?), we can get on with the rest of the fundemental changes to this country that we have now voted in the affirmative to do, multiple times.
When referring to CONgress, please use the correct spelling, CONgress.
Thank you!
But then I would be judgemental and that is not PC. So, sorry, I best not refer to them in that manner. I'm trying to get on the good side of the PC-train.
Fuck the PC train, hope that fucker finally derails. I prefer to call a spade a spade without all the candy coating.
-Cracker out!
Ja Fuckin' Wol!
Danke!
It starts from the bottom up. Demand, at the local level, that NO lawyers (or bankers as well) be on the ballot of any election. Then the same rules apply at the county, state and federal level.
Remove ALL lawyers from elected office.
If the choice is between a lawyer and a guy who shovels shit for a living, vote in the shit shoveler. Can't do any worse at this point.
Interesting how the psychology over the military has been turned around over the last 20-40 years.
Remember when the trrops came back from Vietnam, how they felt unloved by the public? Now, at every ball game there's a huge cheer for the military personnel.
Why? They got used by the NWO. They did nothing to uphold and defend The Constitution against the usurper.
The 7% consists of the 1%ers who pretty much own the USA are doing very nicely out of government polcies. The other 6% are the overcompensated lackeys who keep in place the systems that enable the 1% to do so well i.e. bankers, CEOs, lawyers, police chiefs, army chiefs.
Let's be fair now.
This isn't only Congress.
The Administration and the Legal Cartel are AT LEAST as corrupt and lawless as Congress, though not as contemptible because we don't expect them to represent the 'everyman'.
What do you do when corruption is so widespread that you'd be better off with no government than the one you have?
Like bad children, they all need to go to timeout.
I'd even be willing to continue to pay their - and every federal worker's - salaries if they will simply agree not to go to work.
I would also expect them and not to take another job where their bureacratic authoritarian ways can cause more damage.
In actual accounting point of fact - compliance with all their red tape is more expensive than Federal Workers' complete compensation plan. Permanently retiring them is the lowest cost solution to a Federal Government out-of-control.
How in the fuck are banks at 26%? People are screwed up.
Because At least 10-12% of people are stupid, and another 10-12% are crazy. (The remaining 2-6% are corrupt people who profit from the loot.)
This is why any election result over 80% is suspect - without knowing anything more about the election - and any result over 90% is absolutely fraudulent without question.
This Gallup poll will make no difference. Members of Congress are on the gravy train as America rots from jobs being offshored, drug cartels running the DEA and courts with paid off judges to protect corporate looters and other top level criminals. As an example, in February 2001, Gus Boulis, a Florida businessman, was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Ft. Lauderdale. Detective Art Carbo admitted four years later, on the withness stand, that he had video of the mob killers eating a meal in a Wendy's a short distance from the shooting. The FBI had, within 24 hours, a statement from an informant identifying the killers.
The problem for everyone was that Jack Abramoff, a top Bush fundraiser had paid $250,000 to the mob capo who arranged the murder. Boulis' attorney published these facts in an on-line gambling magazine in October 2001. Then Governor Jeb Bush made sure the Florida Department of Law Enforcement did nothing. The reason for Boulis' murder was that he threatened to reveal that Abramoff had bought Boulis' SunCruz Casino gambling ship "cruise to nowhere" line with a bounced $26 million wire transfer. Bouis had been forced to sell SunCruz after Ohio Congressman Robert Ney had his local U.S. Attorney pressure Boulis into selling his profitable gambling operation. Ney was working with Abramoff, whose corruption only made the national news after Bill Moyers' NOW had a story on Abramoff, which led later to PBS cancelling the show.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/27/AR200509...
One other interesting note: Lead 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta was Abramoff's guest several times on a SunCruz casino gambling boat.
Now you are ready for a military dictatorship.
Coup détat, bitches?
When you click on the photo, you'll also see a chart for confidence in military. The chart peaks around the gulf invasion and then post 9/11, Afghan. Then it falls as reality, not government-driven anger, sets in.
Yeah, yeah. I know. Voting is a sham, etc. I vote every election and always, without fail, vote AGAINST any/all incumbents. If there are no incumbents running, I select the one (based on questions posed to the candidate and my own independent research) who I think will be the least corrupt in their first term.
Hang on there, Hoss. If it's a sham, why do it? Seems like a waste of time, to me.
Heck, yea. I thought I'd try to get elected as an outsider to the system -- just the state house in CO -- and promptly ran up against a wall of party hacks, rent-seeking developers, and others with their hand out ... behind their back. I'll probably lose to a party hack, but at least I gave "it" a big scare.
Last night, I opened up a book I've read several times in the far past -- Crane Brinton's Anatomy of a Revolution. Perhaps its time we start thinking about how to shrink the government back to manageable size. What shocked me the most while running for office is how many people have a stake in the status quo. Guiltlessly! And I'm Republican (presumably more small gov oriented than Dems).
We need a little red book. Rules for libertarian-leaning revolutionaries.
Having said that, anyone who has read, say, Max Weber, for one, learned that bureaucracies never shrink. They grow like reptiles, never reaching an adult size, but getting bigger, bigger and bigger. I should have known that incremental change won't work. Getting into the system may delay the growth but won't stop it.
Its time to upend the system.
Interesting the cops were #3.....enough corruption overall to rival the wankingbanking "industry"...
CON-gress?
Shit...the 7% that approve were stupid cunts that said so openly....
Easy to hate Congress; 532 of them are not "yours" to the sheeple....
Anybody watch the headcam video of the homeless guy in ABQ getting shot? The cop who delivered the lethal force yelled, "BOOYAH!!" They love this stuff... Killing unarmed citizens.
It would take amending the Constitution
Balanced budget with no tricks - or - POTUS, VP, all of congress - can not run for reelection.
Plus at the end of all of these folks term they must do a GHW Bush and jump out of an airplane -
Voters would decide if they get a parachute or not.
ALL of Congress has committed TREASON by allowing a BRITISH BORN (of a British subject father), non natural born Citizen, domestic enemy of the Republic into the Whitehouse. They ALL now protect the knowledge of that treason, and are blackmailed, which is why the domestic enemy Obama can do whatever he wants by edict.
ALL of them are guilty. Why do you think they tried to change the penalty for treason?
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2381
http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/12/17/Dem-Bill-Would-End-Death-Penalty-for-Espionage-Treason-Assasinations
To the gallows...
People are usually born by their mother.
Doesn't Trump have the birther leadership now? Are you trying to steal his thunder?
So you are saying Obama was immaculately conceived? A child born to married parents assumes BOTH nationalities. Dual allegiance at birth is forbidden by the natural born Citizen requirement, which by definition of the "Common Law"(law of nations-- see Sosa v. Alvarez (2004)) and Minor v. Happersett, 88 US 162, 167, is one born in the US to 2 US Citizen parents (or an unmarried US Citizen mother).
The entire purpose of the natural born Citizen requirement is to ensure, to the highest degree possible, allegiance and attachment to the United States, by eliminating foreign influence at birth. So it is impossible to think that one born of British subjectship via the father would be eligible, no matter if born on the Oval Office desk.
"The Constitution does not in words say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners." Minor v. Happersett, 88 US 162, 167
"The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights." Vattel, Law of Nations, Bk 1 C. 19, S. 212, 1758
When they start selling sharpeners for pitch forks in Virginia and Maryland we should be afraid. Very afraid.
Don't count Maryland in for anything.
If you are looking for a place where people approve of congress and the president...then look no further than the Baltimore/DC corridor.
The seven per cent that approve should lose their right to vote permanently. They are affirmed they are idiots.
One look at Harry Reid and you want to know if there is a vaccine against this vile shit....
You know it is just the 'little things' that make folks less than impressed with their elected reps.....things such as those reps being above the laws that apply to everyone else....their willingness to squander tax dollars in foreign lands when we have major problems not being handled right here at home....their inability to establish an actual border to our south...their televised rapt attention whenever a Fed chairperson spews the usual bsin language no one understands...the fact that they make sure special interest groups are fully taken care of no matter the cost to the average citizen....just all the 'little things'....