Anything that goes against what the corporate powers that be is demonized and twisted into a different form through their media outlets to create something that the ill-informed will swallow it no questions asked. Anyone that speaks out against what is obviously wrong with the system is turned into an enemy, while the one’s violating our rights and freedoms are treated like benevolent kings. Recently there have been many successful efforts to subjugate the poorer voters in this country. These measures have passed and it will become difficult for poorer and elderly people to vote in this country. The reason for this is simple, poor people and minorities are more likely to vote for Obama in the coming election and they have more numbers than those that will not.
TERM LIMITS FOR CONGRESS I believe that term limits should be placed on our Congressmen and women because it would allow for a more efficient Congress. The current Congress is in shambles, a dismal failure and is in desperate need of new ideas, procedures, and influence. With term limits in place, Congress will be more responsible toward their constituents because they themselves will soon be constituents. They will have to live under and abide by the laws they created while in office. They’ll have less time in office to develop money ties to lobbyists and other special interest groups, thereby weakening the threat of lobbyists being able to influence legislation.
US government should be trying to regulate businesses With the current global economic situation in turmoil, I truly believe that the regulation of businesses by the United States (US) government is justifiable and they should not let the market handle the matter. I say this only because the market players, i.e. Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan as well as other financial banks are the only one who truly benefit from these crisis. Most free market societies always have protracted economic downturns or even slower than expected recovery’s when they allow the market to correct itself without the intervention by government. It can be the fastest way to economic collapse or a deterioration of any recovery.
Lobbyists are supposed to be a group of people seeking to influence politicians on a specific issue. The key word in that definition is people, because lobbyists today are no longer people. They are representatives for multi-billion dollar industries and companies, and when was the last time huge corporations really knew what was best for the people? They don’t, they only know what is best for themselves. Lobbyists could be used to get voters demands to Congress after elections, but now most lobbyists are paid by large corruptions to influence lawmakers.
While Bush was president, mergers were able to get away quite easily past the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission, where as Obama plans on putting a stop to the leniency of mergers. As President Obama promises to take a more active approach on scrutinizing any deals that might hurt consumers. With the increased merger scrutiny, executives would have to find ways to reduce costs such as merging with a rival, which would also give cause for antitrust concern. As well with two major rivals joining together, would result in a massive amount of jobs lost, which Obama is trying to fix as well as prevent from happening, although interference is unlikely. While the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 prevents companies from transactions that
Politics can ruin even the best of men. We have hit the campaign trail for governor of California. His speeches are just outstanding as he points out how the government is for the people and not vice-versa.
Frederick Street: Life and Death on Canada’s Love Canal State-Sponsored Crime “Economic gains should never be an excuse for knowingly poisoning workers and their communities” (Kuyek, 2004:2), is just one of many examples of officials using profit as a means for pollution. Because of the resistance of powerful corporate and government organizations to valuing the health of employees and citizens above the making of profit leads those officials to overlook regulations, push constructions and lobby surrounding neighbourhoods to the ‘good’ of economic growth, while in the same breadth marginalizing their decisions for harmful effects. Officials typically placed hazardous waste sites, coke plants, steel mills and the likes near poor or minority communities because they expected less opposition than if the site were located near a well-off community. Social analysis must take place if we are to ask questions and learn about how our decisions to either welcome or reject such ‘prosperities’ are genuine and how issues may be interlinked. Using our sociological imagination could broaden our view of state-sponsored crimes and give insight as to how our personal troubles may be in the future interlinked with public issues.
In defense these working classes made their own political parties like the Working Men’s Party that show strength in city elections. They also made a saying in which they wanted to abolish the law that they should not imprison people for debt issues. They mentioned how it was not fair in which they had to go through the punishment of going into prison if that would only lessen the chance of actually getting the debt paid off. However, the most of the rich were against this because they thought that misfortunes can happen to anyone. The person who is in debt promises to be able to pay it off and if they don’t it is only their fault so they find no reason in abolishing this law of imprisonment due to
All the variation in public assistance could lead to migrations of welfare recipients to places where benefits are more generous. And some worry that the result could be a "race to the bottom" as local governments reduce benefits in an attempt to avoid attracting more poor people – or even drive them out entirely. The Politics Politically, welfare reform is perhaps the most conspicuous example of how President Clinton adopted – some say co-opted – parts of the Republican agenda. Historically, Democrats had defended the old welfare system against GOP attacks. Clinton defined himself as a centrist Democrat in his 1992 campaign in part by promising to "end welfare as we know it."
Presidents always give a speech on how things will get better but in our economy I could only see it get worse. What I think gets people to vote for a president is the “myth” that comes out of their mouths which works on all people. When voting only the electoral votes are the ones that will we counted and if that president has a numerous electoral votes he will