Maggie's Farm

BD,
You're right on the money.

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I do believe this is a major demarcation in the citizenry's relationship to it's elected officials.

For years politicians have said they pay no attention to the polls, while collectively spending billions on polling and focus groups.

For years the average citizen has felt detached, alienated, and rejected from a government that redistributes OUR money on projects that are buried deep within bills having nothing to do with the bill.

Well, I do believe we have crossed a threshold that if pursued can alter those conditions.

1. We have the capability to have OUR public servants instantly upload all bills and changes to those bills to a site for public scurtiny. Programs would no doubt be easily developed to search for key words. Gone would be the days of some multi million dollar grant going to a "performance artist" or an Andreas Serrano to do another "Pixx Christ", or a 25 million dollar upgrade to the Roadside Wild Flower Project in Shangra-La.

2. see 1. and add your own idea.

Now this does present a monumental alteration in the how's, why's, and wherefore's of the formulation of our REPUBLIC. I have mentioned before that the word "democracy" does not appear in either the Declaration of Independence or the U.S. Constitution.....what I have outlined and what we are capable of is exactly contra to what the Founding Father's debated and produced for us. They had no intention of setting up a direct democracy, knowing that mankind's immediate judgements are usually not the best ones and that reflection is needed to have good government.

Having said that what we have now is not what was intended either and continues to move further and further from it. This new "power to be heard" and thus influence legislation did precisely what the Founding fathers envisioned...WE forced the "deliberative body" of Congress, the Senate, to do more deliberation on a bill they were thrusting forward at the speed of speech.

We have sounded the tocsin.

I believe this day can be built on to realize a more serious, deliberative body is what the citizens want, were promised, and need resusitated.

I do believe we sent them a message. Fellow citizens we did ourselves proud these last few weeks....bravo to us!

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I mentioned in previous posts the Democratic Parties move from using socialist codewords to the term "Progressive".

It is of no small note that Nancy Pelosi, a heartbeat and failed pacemaker away from the Presidency is a card carryinf member of the Democratic Socialists of America*. I am still compiling an more inclusive list but over 70 members of the Democratic Party, including many committee chairmen are members of this organization. Here is an example of their creed and objectives. From their website.

"We are socialists because we reject an international economic order sustained by private profit, alienated labor, race and gender discrimination, environmental destruction, and brutality and violence in defense of the status quo.

We are socialists because we share a vision of a humane international social order based both on democratic planning and market mechanisms to achieve equitable distribution of resources, meaningful work, a healthy environment, sustainable growth, gender and racial equality, and non-oppressive relationships."*

For a real treat visit their website and enjoy a day with Comrade Pelosi.

http://www.dsausa.org/about/index.html

CAUTION: You won't believe what they're working for, and have in mind for us.

Also:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/

The above site has been listed before. I HIGHLY encourage the readers to visit this site and familarize yourself with it's operation. It is a wealth of information, linking names with organizations they are affiliated with.

Knowledge is Power.

I just used the Discover The Networks site.(above) It takes some work but you can connect the dots.

World Net Daily has also done work ..Divvy Kidd the writer.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45735

Then you call the Hill and ask.