Kucinich: "the Pentagon cannot properly account for $1.2 trillion in transactions"

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72. You don't get it.

You seem to be under the delusion that if enough of a majority politely asks our "representatives" to do something that will adversely affect their incomes and investments, that they will reply,
"Oh sure. Here you go."

*Over 70% of the American people supported a Public Option.

* 65 percent (of ALL Americans, Democrats AND Republicans) say the government should guarantee health insurance for everyone -- even if it means raising taxes.

* 66 percent would reduce the deficit not by cutting domestic spending but by reducing Pentagon spending or raising taxes.

* 77 percent believe the country should do "whatever it takes" to protect the environment.

* 87 percent think big oil corporations are gouging consumers, and 80 percent (including 76 percent of Republicans) would support a windfall profits tax on the oil giants if the revenues went for more research on alternative fuels.

* 69 percent agree that corporate offshoring of jobs is bad for the U.S. economy (78 percent of "disaffected" voters think this), and only 22% believe offshoring is good because "it keeps costs down."

http://alternet.org/story/29788/

* 92% of ALL Americans support TRANSPARENT, VERIFIABLE elections!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x446445


The Point is....We no longer have a representative government.
If 90% of the American People signed a petition demanding Campaign Finance Reform,
NOTHING would happen from either of the two entrenched Status Quo parties.

The ONLY avenue that remains is working OUTSIDE the framework of the established Political parties.
THAT is how our neighbors in Latin America were able to achieve "change", and THAT is how we will have to do it here.

OWS was a good start.
Unfortunately, the forces of the entrenched Status Quo have gotten very good at infiltration, decapitation, provocation, False Flags, and militarized, coordinated, violent suppression of opposition movements in the USA.

My Wife & I went On Strike in 2006.
We are patiently waiting for you to join us.
Very little of our Labor & Money now goes to funding Wall Street Bailouts,
WARS, the MIC, Political Joy Rides, or conspicuous over consumption.

We are living well on a laughably low "taxable" income,
and skills we learned in the 60s.