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Good post Brent!

Reply #8 - 10/09/08 10:26pm


.. Ok that got my attention.. Now Im going back to watch the banned Bush speech..

Just google New World Order and knock yourself out. But hold on you will learn things that will not make you feel so good.

If you ask yourself how we established these institutions and examined the history you would find that these power grabs always occurred during times of crisis such as now. I would argue that a new institution is being proposed that will nationalize banks such as they've never been nationalized before. If this happens, economies will stagnate and standards of living will plummet. As imperfect as the free market was, it was solely responsible for the material wealth we now enjoy.

This is a great comparison for each candidate on a multitude of subjects, I posted just a few views, please go to site for complete listing:

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/i...

DEMOCRATS
Barack Obama
Opposes any constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v Wade. Disagreed with Supreme Court ruling to uphold the "Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act." Did not cast a vote on Prohibiting Funds for Groups that Perform Abortions amendment in 2007.

Joe Biden
Supports the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade that protects a woman's right to choose. Supports the ban on partial-birth abortion. Opposes public funding for abortions.


REPUBLICANS
John McCain
Voted for the Prohibit Partial Birth Abortion bill in 2003 and "yes" for Prohibiting Funds for Groups that Perform Abortions amendment in 2007. Believes Roe v. Wade is a flawed decision that must be overturned. Supports Supreme Court ruling upholding the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.
Sarah Palin
Opposes abortion in all cases including rape and incest, except when a mother's life is in danger. Says she believes Roe v. Wade should be overturned and the decision given to the states.

Obama and McCain: Key Senate Votes from 2005 through 2008

Parental Notification

September 29, 2006 -- The U.S. Senate refuses to limit debate -- by a vote of 57 to 42 -- on a motion to concur with U.S. House changes to a Senate bill that would have made it a federal crime to take a minor across state lines for an abortion in order to circumvent state parental notification and consent laws.

McCain: Yea
Obama: Nay


http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/i...

Economy
Market turmoil, a series of bank failures, rising foreclosures and a tough job market have many Americans feeling antsy about the economy. In early October, Congress passed a $700 billion bailout plan intended to shore up the nation's lenders. Read about the stances of the presidential candidates below. The views of the vice presidential candidates are shown where available.
DEMOCRATS
Barack Obama
Supported the $700 billion Wall Street bailout package. On October 3, he said: "America is facing one of the greatest financial crises in history, and today's passage of an emergency rescue plan was absolutely necessary to prevent an economic catastrophe that could have cost millions of jobs and forced businesses across the country into bankruptcy."

Advocates a series of reforms for the financial sector that include new oversight of investment banks, more disclosure by financial firms, higher capital requirements for firms used to operating with a minimal cash backstop, and more consistent rules that apply to all financial institutions, not just regular banks.

Supported increasing the federal insurance for money deposited in personal bank accounts to $250,000.

Advocates a $50 billion emergency economic stimulus plan. The money would go toward 1 million jobs for rebuilding infrastructure and schools, and helping local governments avoid budget cuts, the campaign says.

Proposes a Homeowner and Financial Support Act. "First, it will provide capital to the financial system. Second, it will provide liquidity to enable our financial markets to function. And third, it will do what I've been calling for since I supported legislation on it early last spring, which is to get serious about helping struggling families to restructure their mortgages on more affordable terms so they can stay in their homes," he said during a September speech. CNNMoney: More on Obama and Wall Street | Jobs
Joe Biden
Says he would balance the federal budget by ending the Iraq war and eliminating the associated expenditures, and ending tax cuts for the wealthy. Advocates rolling back oil speculation and confronting OPEC to bring down oil prices. Would invest in U.S. infrastructure - bridges, dams, roads and airports - as a means of creating jobs. Would expand the research and development tax credit and the earned income tax credit. Would crack down on predatory lending and provide tax breaks for small businesses.


REPUBLICANS
John McCain
Supported the $700 billion Wall Street bailout package. "This rescue bill isn't perfect, and it is an outrage that it's even necessary, but we have to stop the damage to our economy done by corrupt and incompetent practices on Wall Street and in Washington. The action Congress took [on October 3] is a tourniquet. It is not a permanent solution," he said.

Advocates reform of the financial sector. "The McCain-Palin administration will replace the outdated and ineffective patchwork quilt of regulatory oversight in Washington and bring transparency and accountability to Wall Street," he said in a statement.

Supported increasing the federal insurance for money deposited in personal bank accounts to $250,000

During the first presidential debate in September, he advocated a spending freeze to help solve the financial crisis. "How about a spending freeze on everything but defense, veteran affairs and entitlement programs?" he said. "I think we ought to seriously consider, with the exceptions the caring of veterans, national defense and several other vital issues."

Advocates creating a top-level commission to study streamlining and strengthening federal agencies charted with protecting the economy.

Called for the creation of a Mortgage and Financial Institutions Trust (MFI) to help companies avoid bankruptcy while protecting their customers. The money would also help consumers restructure loans so they can keep their homes

"The underlying principle of the MFI or any approach considered by Congress should be to keep people in their homes and safeguard the life savings of all Americans by protecting our financial system and capital markets. This trust will work with the private sector and regulators to identify institutions that are weak and fix them before they become insolvent," he said during a campaign speech in September. CNNMoney: More on McCain and Wall Street | Jobs
Sarah Palin
Stated during the vice presidential debate October 2, "It was the predator lenders, who tried to talk Americans into thinking that it was smart to buy a $300,000 house if we could only afford a $100,000 house. There was deception there, and there was greed and there is corruption on Wall Street. And we need to stop that.

"We need to make sure that as individuals we're taking personal responsibility through all this. It's not the American people's fault that the economy is hurting like it is, but we have an opportunity to learn a heck of a lot of good lessons through this and say never again will we be taken advantage of."


Obama and McCain: Key Senate Votes from 2005 through 2008

Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

October 1, 2008 -- The U.S. Senate passes -- by a vote of 74 to 25 -- a bill to provide authority for the federal government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes

McCain: yea
Obama: yea

Rebates

February 7, 2008 -- The U.S. Senate passes the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 by a vote of 81-16. The bill provides economic stimulus through rebates to individuals and incentives for business investment.

McCain: Yea
Obama: Did not vote

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/i...

Taxes
Along with the Iraq war, economic issues promise to dominate the race for the White House, including the always heated issue of taxes. Read the stances of the presidential candidates below. The views of the vice presidential candidates are shown where available.

DEMOCRATS
Barack Obama
Opposed extending 2003 Bush tax cut law through 2010. Supports eliminating marriage penalty and extending child tax credit. Proposes a "making work pay" tax credit of up to $500 per person, or $1,000 per working family. Proposes eliminating income taxes for seniors making less than $50,000 per year and eliminating all capital gains taxes on start-ups and small businesses. Says he would reform the child and dependent care tax credit by making it refundable and allowing low-income families to receive up to a 50 percent credit for child care expenses. Favors tax cuts for middle-class workers and tax increases for top earners. Says he would restore the top two income tax rates to their pre-2001 levels of 36 percent and 39.6 percent. (Currently, they're 33 percent and 35 percent.) Says he would maintain the estate tax but would freeze the estate tax exemption amount at $3.5 million. Proposes to create an "American opportunity tax credit," which the Obama campaign describes as "a fully refundable credit" that "will ensure that the first $4,000 of a college education is completely free for most Americans and would cover two-thirds the cost of tuition at the average public college or university."
Joe Biden
Advocates repealing the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans. Supports amending the alternative minimum tax to the benefit of middle-class Americans but voted against its full repeal. Would not completely repeal the estate tax.


REPUBLICANS
John McCain
Voted against 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cut laws, but later voted in favor of extending tax cuts through 2010. Says he would keep the current rates on dividends and capital gains, and maintain the current income and investment tax rates. Says he opposes a proposal supporters call the "Fair Tax," which would repeal income taxes and other taxes and abolish the Internal Revenue, but has previously said he would sign it into law as president. Says he would double the child deduction from $3,500 to $7,000 and permanently repeal the alternative minimum tax. Says he would reduce the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent. Advocates raising the exemption from taxation on estates up to $10 million while cutting the tax rate to 15 percent. Proposes that a three-fifths majority vote in Congress be required to raise taxes. Says he would permit corporations to immediately deduct the cost of equipment investment. Would prohibit new cellular telephone taxes and ban Internet taxes. Wants to establish a permanent tax credit equal to 10 percent of wages spent on research and development.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/1...

Fri October 10, 2008
Thousands of voter registration forms faked, officials say

CROWN POINT, Indiana (CNN) -- More than 2,000 voter registration forms filed in northern Indiana's Lake County by a liberal activist group this week have turned out to be bogus, election officials said Thursday.

The group -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN -- already faces allegations of filing fraudulent voter registrations in Nevada and faces investigations in other states.

And in Lake County, home to the long-depressed steel town of Gary, the bipartisan Elections Board has stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered just before the October 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony.

"All the signatures looked exactly the same," Ruthann Hoagland, a Republican on the board. "Everything on the card filled out looks exactly the same."

The forms included registrations submitted in the names of the dead -- and in one case, the name of a fast-food restaurant, Jimmy Johns. Sally LaSota, a Democrat on the board, called the forms fraudulent and said whoever filed them broke the law. Watch how dead people are turning up on voter registration forms »

"ACORN, with its intent, perhaps was good in the beginning, but went awry somewhere," LaSota said.

Don't Miss
Florida voting issues raise fears of 2000-like debacle
Early voting begins for McCain and Obama
Over the past four years, a dozen states have investigated complaints of fraudulent registrations filed by ACORN. On Tuesday, Nevada authorities raided an ACORN office in Las Vegas, Nevada, where workers are accused of registering members of the Dallas Cowboys football team. And the group has become the target of Republican attacks on voter fraud, a perennial GOP issue.

A subsidiary of the group was paid $800,000 by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign to register voters for the 2008 primaries, and ACORN's political wing endorsed Obama back in February. But Obama's campaign told CNN that it "is committed to protecting the integrity of the voting process," and said it has not worked with ACORN during the general election.

Brian Mellor, an ACORN attorney in Boston, said the group has its own quality-control process and has fired workers in the past -- including workers in Gary. But he said allegations that his organization committed fraud is a government attempt to keep people disenfranchised. Watch more about this investigation »

"We believe their purpose is to attack ACORN and suppress votes," Mellor said. "We believe that by attacking ACORN, they are going to discourage people that have registered to vote with ACORN from voting."

CNN was unable to reach ACORN officials in Gary and in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the group's Indiana operation is based. Offices in both cities were empty when reporters visited.

Lake County elections officials have set aside all 5,000 of the ACORN-submitted applications in what Hoagland called the "fake pile" for later review. But she said every one will be reviewed before the election to make sure no legitimate voters are skipped.

There has been no evidence of voter fraud yet, because voters have yet to go to the polls. But elections officials say they will be sending their information to prosecutors, who will determine whether any investigation will begin.

"We have no idea what the motive behind it is," she said. "It's just overwhelming to u

Someone in this thread mentioned "The New World Order".

Here is some information about that:

There was a warning by Barry Goldwater in 1979. Goldwater was a five-term Republican Senator from Arizona and the Republican Party presidential nominee in 1964 who wrote about his concerns about the Trilaterlists in 1979. BTW, he was also a Major General in the U.S. Air Force. This is what he warned us about, and I quote:

In my view the Trilateral commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power - political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical. All this is to be done in the interest of creating a more peaceful, more productive world community. What the Trilateralists truly intend is the creation of a worldwide economic power superior to the political governments of the nation-states involved. They believe the abundant materialism they propose to create will overwhelm existing differences. As managers and creators of the system they will rule the future."
http://www.constitution.org/col/cu...


That brings me to Bilderberg. Has anyone ever heard of that?

BILDERBERG - INTRODUCTION

I think that most people know that I like to do lots of research. Well, I happened upon a group called Bilderberg quite a while ago.

There is a lot of crazy stuff on the internet about Bilderberg actually running the world. Well, that is a pretty crazy idea. Most of it is not from main stream media - but I have come to realize that is because many of our mainstream media attend the Bilderberg meetings and take a vow of silence. However, there is enough about Bilderberg from reliable sources that I know not only that Bilderberg exists, but that there really are people in our government today who want to rule the world. However, Bilderberg is not the problem. That is only where the Trilateralists meet.

The Bilderberg group is named after the city where they first met in 1954. Since then international leaders in politics and finance and the rich and elite throughout the world have met yearly at undisclosed locations.

The problem with Bilderberg is that what they talk about is never revealed to anyone outside of Bilderberg. Every year they meet at a different location and they go to great lengths to hide the location from reporters and unless leaked by an insider.

If Bilderberg just a meeting where the rich and elite from throughout the world meet and discuss things? If so, why all the secrecy?

Does it have any influence on governments?

Or could it be possible that Bilderberg rules the world?

All articles below in caps for readability only.

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2008:

THE NATION: CONSPIRACY THEORISTS UNITE; A SECRET CONFERENCE THOUGHT TO RULE THE WORLD

by alan cowell and david m. Halbfinger
published: July 11, 2004

Since its first meeting 50 years ago, the Bilderberg conference, a secretive gathering of global power brokers, has inspired layer upon layer of conspiracy theories, which it has done little to dispute. Over the years, the deeds laid at the conference's devious door have included the creation of the european union, the invasion of iraq and the bombing of serbia - all to service its most cherished goal: the creation of a world government.

The conspiracy theories bubbled to the surface anew last week, after it was reported that a well-received speech by Senator John Edwards at the conference last month in Stresa, Italy, was one reason for his selection as John Kerry's Vice-Presidential running mate.

Is the Bilderberg confab now molding domestic American policy? (And American financial policy - mine!)

Roughly 130 delegates attend the invitation-only annual gatherings, named for the Dutch hotel where the first Bilderberg conference was held in may 1954, to debate issues surrounding the cold war.

The meetings are hardly a monument to transparency. The hotels involved are usually closed off to other guests.

Unlike the world economic forum in Davos, Switzerland, journalists are not invited to cover it - although a few attend as participants - and all delegates promise to keep quiet about what they hear and say.

The group's meetings, Ms. Banck-Polderman said, are financed by corporate sponsors in the host countries and are regularly attended by tycoons, politicians and diplomats in Rurope and the United States, including Henry A. Kissinger, the former secretary of state, and Richard N. Perle, the former head of The Defense Policy Board. This year's list also included Richard C. Holbrooke, the former united states ambassador to the United Nations, and, of course, Senator Edwards.

"What I call for is more openness in what they do," said Tony Gosling, a British researcher and former journalist who has followed the Bilderberg meetings and believes they are designed to unite opinion around major, global ideas.

"i don't think the participants should be sworn to secrecy," he said in a telephone interview from bristol, england. "i think that a forum where so many rich and powerful people meet should be open to public scrutiny."

You can read the rest of this article at:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullp...

Or read about Bilderberg at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/09_september/27/bilderberg.shtml


Everything I have found points to David Rockefeller as one of the leaders at Bilderberg. He is the Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Rockefeller was also the founder of the Trilaterlists.
http://www.trilateral.org/memb.htm


BTW: John Edwards was groomed by Bilderberg. As well as Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. Here is an article from BBC:

Bilderberg meetings often feature future political leaders shortly before they become household names. Bill Clinton went in 1991 while still Governor of Arkansas. TonyBblair was there two years later while still an opposition mp. All the recent presidents of the European commission attended Bbilderberg meetings before they were appointed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4290944.stm

also, at:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullp..
.

THERE ARE TWO THINGS THAT MAKE ME BELIEVE THIS IS REAL:

1. The warning by Barry Goldwater (five-term Republican Senator from Arizona and the Republican Party presidential nominee in 1964) who wrote about his concerns about the Trilaterlists in 1979. BTW, he was also a Major General in the U.S. Air Force. (above)

Speech by Walter Cronkite
Although this video (below) shows a clip of Hillary Clinton supposedly congratulating Cronkite, I am not too sure about the part about Hillary as it looks like it could have been spliced into the video of Cronkite's speech; however, in my opinion, the speech by Cronkite is quiet real and calls for World Governance.

Video of Walter Cronkite receiving the Global Governance Award in 1999 from the World Federalist Association (WTF) where Cronkite advocated world governance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hee...

SOME PEOPLE REALLY DO WANT WORLD GOVERNANCE:

Some of these people presently in our government include Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, Richard Perle and Donald Rumsfeld. They have been in our government for many years. Ever since the cold war ended, and especially after the fall of Russia, there were certain people in our government in the U.S. who believed this was the golden opportunity for America to take over the world. In 1992, Paul Wolfowitz wrote the yearly Defense Planning Guide which called for world domination by force. Congress would not accept this document and had it re-written. However, in 2000, when Wolfowitz became part of the George W. Bush cabinet, it became the Bush Doctrine. I wrote a lot about this at the link below along with more info about PNAC.
http://dailystrength.org/people/72...

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES:
U.S. STRATEGY PLAN CALLS FOR INSURING NO RIVALS DEVELOP

Published: March 8, 1992

In a broad new policy statement that is in its final drafting stage, the Defense Department asserts that America's political and military mission in the post-cold-war era will be to insure that no rival superpower is allowed to emerge in Western Europe, Asia or the territory of the former Soviet Union.

The classified document makes the case for a world dominated by one superpower whose position can be perpetuated by constructive behavior and sufficient military might to deter any nation or group of nations from challenging american primacy. Its drafting has been supervised by Paul D. Wolfowitz, the Pentagon's Under Secretary For Policy.

The document was provided to the New York Times by an official who believes this post-cold-war strategy debate should be carried out in the public domain.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullp...


Information from other sites which I consider reliable. BTW, GlobalResearch is part of the UCLA School of Management.


AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BILDERBERGS, INC.

Their address in America was at 345 E. 46th Street, in New York City (which was also the location of the Trilateral Commission and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace). The American Friends of Bilderbergs, with offices at 477 Madison Avenue (6th floor) in New York City, is an IRS-approved charitable organization that received regular contributions from the likes of Exxon, Arco, and IBM; while their meetings are funded by the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller foundation and the Carnegie Endowment fund.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.p...

John McCain belongs to The American Friends of Bildergerg.


Other Bilderberg Meetings

NEW WORLD ORDER ELITES: BILDERBERG GROUP TO MEET IN ISTANBUL
Open letter to Turkish Prime Minister
by Timu�§in Leflef

Global Research, May 11, 2007
Dear Prime Minister,
I am a Turkish filmmaker living in Ireland. It has come to my attention that the Bilderberg Group are holding their next meeting in Istanbul this year, between May 31 and June 3rd.(1) I have known about this group since 1993 and have been following their activities over the past 14 years... Likely to attend this year's meeting are Paul Wolfowitz, Dr. Henry Kissinger and Donald Rumsfeld.
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php...



DEBATING WORLD DOMINATION: BILDERBERG MEETS IN CANADA'S CAPITAL
IRAN AND VENEZUELA ON THEIR SECRETIVE AGENDA

Global Research, June 9, 2006 (BE SURE TO NOTE THE DATE HERE! - MINE)

The secretive group known as Bilderberg will hold its annual secret meeting at the posh Brook Street Resort a few miles from Ottawa, Canada, June 8-11. The location and part of the agenda was disclosed to American Free Press by a source inside Bilderberg's inner circle.

HIGH ON THE BILDERBERG'S SECRET AGENDA THIS YEAR ARE OIL PRICES AND THE POLITICAL UPHEAVAL IN LATIN AMERICA. WHEN MEETING LAST YEAR IN ROTTACH-EGERN, GERMANY, BILDERBERG CALLED FOR DRAMATIC INCREASES IN THE PRICE OF OIL. OIL PRICES STARTED CLIMBING IMMEDIATELY FROM $40 A BARREL TO $70.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index...


Amazingly, according to the charts at the link below, oil the prices did go from $40 up to $76.84 during that period of time. And just look at the price of oil today.
HTTP://WWW.FORBES.COM/2005/11/01/O...



GOING BACK TO WHAT BARRY GOLDWATER SAID IN 1979:

In my view The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power (1) political, (2) monetary, (3) intellectual, and (4) ecclesiastical.

(5) All this is to be done in the interest of creating a more peaceful, more productive world community. What the Trilateralists truly intend is the creation of a worldwide economic power superior to the political governments of the nation-states involved. They believe the abundant materialism they propose to create will overwhelm existing differences. As managers and creators of the system they will rule the future."
http://www.constitution.org/col/cu...

It looks to me like we are already there. Just look at where America is today.

I would also suggest you google "SuperClass". This is a group of about 6000 rich and elite who control most of the corporations throughout the world. It is almost incentuous. Also, they all sit on the boards of each other's corporations.

And we wonder why we are in such financial problem, yes? And why I have problems with some Republicans as well as some Democrats. We need to start looking at these elected officials as persons, not as part of one party or another.

I wrote above: "All articles below in caps for readability only."

I changed the caps to sentence case as is was too hard to read. I put the title of the articles in caps and the link to the article underneath. I hope that makes it clear.

Something to Consider:

Whether you're a Republican, Democrat or Independent, here is something that should cause a lot of introspection by every voter in America .

'545 People by Charlie Reese'

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes? You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does. You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does. You and I don't control monetary policy, The Federal Reserve Bank does. One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices - 545 human beings out of the 300 million - are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country. I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered but private central bank. I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes. Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party. What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it. The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? She/he is the leader of the majority party. She/he and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to. It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts - of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist. If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair. If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red. If the Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ . If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way. There are no insoluble government problems. Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like 'the economy,' 'inflation' or 'politics' that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do. Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone, have the power. They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses - provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees. We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

And keep in mind this Congress only worked 93 days last year… the shortest season in history and at a time when we are at war and the economy is tumbling.

Actually, Glitter, this president has signed so many Executive Orders (also known as signing statements) that give more power to the presidency that our Congress really doesn't have that much power. If Bush doesn't like what they passed, he simply signs one of his Signing Statements (out of view of the press and the public) and takes out the parts he doesn't like - or adds things he does. This is really illegal because he is using these Signing Statements as a line-item veto - which is against the law.

Also, Bush has thumbed his nose at the Congress and refused to appear and has not allowed his staff to appear - even when subpoenaed.

What more can be said about a man who says publicly that our Constitution is just a piece of paper or that a Dictatorship would be great as long as he is the dictator?

That said, our Congress has failed miserably - starting with when Pelosi took Impeachment off the table!

McCain also said a Dictatorship would be great as long as he is the dictator - words to that effect in a town hall meeting not too long ago.