Moneyed Politicians

It is clear that unregulated, free-for-all corrupt capitalism will bury the free world. So then where will the crooks go?

By Jack E. Lohman

After all of the greed plays out and there are no more public assets to capture, and it gets too risky to stay here, the Fat Cats and their politician co-conspirators will depart for their own safe island.

Yea, but who is going to protect them from the greed of their security guards?

I don’t think I’d want to create that for my family, especially with more guns than ever being sold today. Where are their heads?

Most CEOs are pretty decent people…

But why are the 80% of good guys not controlling the 20% who are crooks? And why are our politicians in with the bad guys??? (Aside from “that’s where they get their campaign dollars.”)

This is not a pretty picture…

America will soon join the growing list of countries whose people are rebelling against their corrupt governments. If not a rebellious takeover, which most certainly will bring out the guns, then a military coup of America’s government is inevitable.

Constitutional right to free speech? Don’t even think of it.

But it doesn’t have to be that way…

And it won’t be if we are smart in 2012. How about this:

Let’s publicize all of the spending on a per-candidate basis, and then vote against the one that had the most outside spending. Let’s make them pay a price for their corruption!

Yea, none of us are perfect, but some of us learn.

By Jack E. Lohman

The time is here. The problem-countries are falling the way they should, by the hand of their own people.

But the politicians who make the decisions on our end haven’t gotten the message. These countries fell because their people got fed up and realized that together they could take over and oust their government.

Come to think of it, that’s happening here too.

But now that the dominoes have started falling we should bring our troops home. From everywhere. Put them on the Mexican border and stop the killing by the drug gangs. Let’s help Mexico, if they want us, and let’s mitigate the drug problems by legalizing and controlling drugs.

And as long as we are paying the troops anyway, let’s pay them for nation building here instead.

No, I’m not really that naive.

I know full well that our politicians get paid more for creating a broken system than keeping a good one. They get paid to send our troops to war, by the defense industry, and don’t get paid to keep them at home. Right now they are getting more money from oil and coal than from the clean (solar/wind) industries.

And they are getting paid to keep taxes low for the wealthy 1%, even if it blocks tax cuts for the middle class. And the R’s are getting paid to pass the Keystone Pipeline, and the Dems not.

I’d sure feel better if they were only getting paid by the taxpayers.

It is not a pretty sight, but let’s hope the voters can remember.

Called the “Justice Party,” it’s main issue is the only one that counts: eliminate political corruption!

By Jack E. Lohman

Yea, it doesn’t matter what your other issues, they are controlled by this one. If you really want legislation tilted in your favor, send money!!! To yours and the politicians he tells you to send to (sorry, in polite terms that’s “support”).

The candidate is Rocky Anderson, former mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah. Here is the CNN Video and Democracy Now Video. Their web site: http://www.justicepartyusa.org

Take one of his issues, for example. I’m not convinced that humans contribute to the global warming problem, but the cash flow from the special interests sure point in that direction. The vast majority of scientists say humans do contribute, but could those scientists be corrupted by the solar industry that would benefit from a “green” fixation? Perhaps.

I would prefer that my own board of directors (Congress) sort this out and get to the bottom of it, but they are either taking money from that very Solar industry or the competing oil and coal industries, so I can’t trust them for an honest answer.

So there is only one answer: get the bribes out of the system! And that’s exactly what the Justice Party promises.

Voting for a third-party is difficult

It’s called the “wasted vote syndrome” … but its time has come. I see absolutely zero difference in the overall (and ultimate) votes of Obama and Romney or Gingrich. They will ALL lean toward the moneyed interests that bribe their parties. I do not care who wastes my money, I don’t want it wasted at all!

Yes the Justice Party will compete with the Green Party, just as the D’s compete with the R’s.

But any party can get a plurality and win, and I’d rather see a third party in the presidency to put balance into the system.

Because they are not spending their money on payroll!!!

By Jack E. Lohman

At least not here, and they are getting away with it because both political parties are on the take from those very corporations. And the CEOs are taking the cash rather than distributing it to employees.

We are still politically diverted, fighting the little fires while the special interests are sending their money where it counts… to politicians. And it’s working.

And the Republicans in the debates???

Rule #1… act like adults. Save your barbs for Obama, who well deserves them.

Rule #2… fight the core problem, political corruption. It’s rampant on both sides, both at the state and federal level, and THAT is what’s killing our economy.

Like, balancing the budget by cutting BadgerCare???

Good move, Governor Walker!

Most certainly the politicians don’t want to increase revenues by raising taxes on corporations or the wealthy CEOs. So we’ve eliminated the jobs of the poor and are now attacking their health care!!! Makes all the sense in the world (Not!).

Were it not for the massive campaign contributions from the insurance industry, our politicians would do the right thing… implement a single-payer Medicare-for-all system. We’d use the administrative waste to provide health care to all, and at the same time save the nation $400 billion per year.

But that makes too much sense, and our politicians are not paid to make sense. They are paid (by the special interests) to keep the system broken.

2012 is the year that you and I must send a message…
… to vote against the status quo.