[size="6"]China has won the manufacturing war, Middle East (OPEC) has won the petrolium war, only thing left is the food war. United States is the worlds largest producer of food in the world, Hmmmm....should we start playing the game (greed) also with the only weapon we have left? Nah...our goverment will try this on us first.[/size]
Sad but, I fear, true. The military-industrial complex in this country is so huge and swallows up so much of the federal budget that it's no wonder there's such a huge budget deficit. Campaign reform turned out to be a total joke on both sides of the aisle, which only fuels the corruption that has become omnipresent in both parties. I have to agree that campaign donations have become basically a de-facto system of bribery, a sort of "pay to play" where those in congress become so indebted to big business through their campaigns that they end up only serving those lobbying interests, rather than their constituents.
So, how do we fix these issues? Obviously communism and socialism are not the answer. Both of these systems have one inherent failing: greed. but what do we do when that same fallability becomes present in a system that was designed to avoid it?
First, term limits on congressmen and senators would be a great idea. This would prevent these officals from getting too "fat". Next, limit campaign donations from big business. Third, to help US workers, start slapping real tarriffs on overseas goods, much like foreign economies have done to us, and like we did to Japan back in the late 70's. It's a start. As long as we let big business run our government and other economies like China, India, and Eastern Europe push us around, the downward spiral that the United States is stuck in will continue.
Sad but, I fear, true. The military-industrial complex in this country is so huge and swallows up so much of the federal budget that it's no wonder there's such a huge budget deficit. Campaign reform turned out to be a total joke on both sides of the aisle, which only fuels the corruption that has become omnipresent in both parties. I have to agree that campaign donations have become basically a de-facto system of bribery, a sort of "pay to play" where those in congress become so indebted to big business through their campaigns that they end up only serving those lobbying interests, rather than their constituents.
So, how do we fix these issues? Obviously communism and socialism are not the answer. Both of these systems have one inherent failing: greed. but what do we do when that same fallability becomes present in a system that was designed to avoid it?
First, term limits on congressmen and senators would be a great idea. This would prevent these officals from getting too "fat". Next, limit campaign donations from big business. Third, to help US workers, start slapping real tarriffs on overseas goods, much like foreign economies have done to us, and like we did to Japan back in the late 70's. It's a start. As long as we let big business run our government and other economies like China, India, and Eastern Europe push us around, the downward spiral that the United States is stuck in will continue.